THE GREAT BOOK SWAP As part of National Book Week and to help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. There are schools involved all across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000 […]

Literacy  This week in literacy the students continued exploring poetry by thinking of the messages contained within and the poet’s purpose.  They revisited My Country by Dorothea Mackeller and were introduced to A Mountain Station by Banjo Paterson.  They also furthered their understanding by reading and experimenting with repetition in poems. The 5/6 Team

The Princes Hill Primary School House Athletics carnival is fast approaching!   Children in Grades 3 – 6 will be participating in the House Athletics Carnival on Thursday 11th August, 2016 at Coburg Athletics Track (Harold Stevens Park), Outlook Rd, Coburg (Melway Ref:18 A10).   Students are divided into age groups to compete and successful competitors

** 2016 BAZAAR – HELPERS NEEDED ** Yes, it’s that time already… the 2016 Bazaar is just a few months away and preparations are already well & truly underway. The Silent Auction is a very popular stall which raises a heap of money, but is currently without anyone to run it.   We currently need

Yesterday we were involved in the filming of the children’s TV show pilot ‘Boxwars’. Cat group wrote a short shared recount of the event. On Wednesday the 27th of July, after lunch at 12.00, the Preps excitedly put on their togas. We all went to the friendship tree to meet our Buddies. We lined up together

The Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) will be running every Friday during Term 3 and 4 between 10.00 and 11.00. The children will participate in different activities at stations around the gym; each one will focus on developing a particular motor skill. We are looking for parent help to run to assist with running each station (there is explanation of how to run

Boxwars ‘On Wednesday the whole school draped on their togas, ink printed with their own designs, put on their hand-crafted cardboard jewellery and armour made in Italian with Anne-Maree and paraded out in to the BOXWARS auditorium to act as the crowd for the BOXWARS chariot race.  Caesar himself was there to start the race dressed in a splendid armour of cardboard. We

** 2016 BAZAAR – HELPERS NEEDED **   Yes, it’s that time already… the 2016 Bazaar is just a few months away and preparations are already well & truly underway.   The Silent Auction is a very popular stall which raises a heap of money, but is currently without anyone to run it.