Invitation writing

Last week, the Preps participated in a writing workshop that introduced the genre of invitation writing. They wrote a draft invitation to our celebration in their writing books, and then participated in shared editing with the teacher. This week the Preps worked in the art space to creatively decorate their paper in a bug theme and […]

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LAST WEEK OF TERM

MONDAY Projects and Provocations Modelled writing / Guided Reading / Reinventing ‘The ants go marching’  TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Guided Reading / Shared reading & letter study Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. WEDNESDAY (Reader folders come in today) Prep Neighbourhood

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VISUAL ART NEWS

Term 3 Artist in Residence, Soren Dahlgaard Soren Dahlgaard is a Melbourne based Danish artist who works with playful participation, creative collaboration and engagement in art, where process and humour are important factors. Next term, he will be working in the Visual Art program, across the whole school, on a new project based on the

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Visual Arts News

Term 3 Artist in Residence, Soren Dahlgaard Soren Dahlgaard is a Melbourne based Danish artist who works with playful participation, creative collaboration and engagement in art, where process and humour are important factors.  Next term, he will be working in the Visual Art program, across the whole school, on a new project based on the genre of

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Wellbeing

Over the last two days, the grade one neighbourhood have been discussing how they, the students, play outside and how as a community, we can work together to make everyones day at PHPS successful.  We started Tuesdays workshop with the question ‘How do we think everyone should act in the playground’? Just like we have neighbourhood expectations, we

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What’s happening?

Valley Homestead Camp  We arrived safely yesterday and spent the afternoon doing some outdoor lateral thinking challenges. Today all the students participated in bush survival and learnt how build a fire and boil a billy of water. They then used these skills and cooked their own lunch over a camp fire. We enjoyed the first

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Week 9 Happenings!

Last week we had the amazing African Drumming performances! The whole school performed brilliantly and both performances were very energetic and powerful! Well done to all the students and staff for their commitment and hard work and a massive thank you to Kofi for his passionate approach to teaching us about his culture!   Last week

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WEEK 10 HAPPENINGS

MONDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Guided Reading / Shared reading & letter study Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. WEDNESDAY  Projects and provocations Guided Reading / Shared reading & letter study / Modelled writing Mathematics Projects THURSDAY (Reader’s Notebooks

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