We have an on-going and a financially unsustainable issue with the way toilets are being treated. Plumbers are called in on a regular basis and too much administrative time is being spent on dealing with behaviour associated with toilet use. Vandalism and poor hygiene practices are an on-going issue. We ask that parents help us […]
Maths: Reading and writing of numerals and associating them with their countable units. Exploration into different styles of counting books. Numeral formation and spelling of number words. Literacy: Story telling – including problems and solutions and producing a meaningful sequence of events. This aims to prepare them for their performance of their bug story. Introducing
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MONDAY Workshops to support engagement in provocations Projects and provocations TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. Buddy time – The buddies will continue to work with the Prep bug groups, looking different materials they will need to create a the
Do you think that you have an expertise in a particular area? Would you like to come and share it with the grade one neighbourhood? If so, we’d love to have you come and work with us! We are currently looking for volunteers who may have an engineering/building background, people who love to read
During a wellbeing workshop last week, the Preps listened to another new song! It is called ‘The Feelings Song’ and its message is that we can feel lots of different feelings during the course of a day..and that is ok! ‘You feel happy, you feel sad! You get angry, you get mad! You go to bed
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Last week, the Preps each participated in a modelled and interactive writing experience to create an Autumn book for the Neighbourhood. Each home group searched for different coloured leaves outside and they were photographed with all the different coloured leaves found. We then created a simple, repetitive text to go with our photos. Each book has a
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The Preps learnt a new song last week – ‘The friends of ten’ The song helps children learn the combinations of numbers that can make ten. It also supports rhyme recognition with its rhyming jingle. eg – 5 and 5, danced the jive! 3 and 7 came with Kevin! 1 and 9 arrived on time! With
Students from both neighbourhoods have been investigating 3D shapes and how they can use these shapes by turning them into their own unique design/creation. They have options of drawing their designs, constructing using building blocks or using the ‘shape shifter’ site in playing with a wide range of 3D shapes. Both neighbourhoods were also required
It came to our attention that parents felt overwhelmed at the amount of communication provided about their child/rens learning AND that our use of the space was outgrowing the original intent of the Communication Blog. As a result we will be limiting posts here to 2-3 a week and ensure that they represent a collaborative
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