We’ve been getting quite a few questions about home reading. Anne O’Sullivan, our Literacy guru has prepared this information to help you get the most from your reading with your child at home. Students should all now have a plastic wallet with book to log their book and respond as needed/desired. This will be checked during guided […]
We require small plastic bottles for the project and provocation in the prep neighbourhood. We will be using these to create butterfly feeders so that we can invite more butterflies in our courtyard. Please bring any spare small plastic bottles you may have around the house. It would be very helpful if you could remove the labels
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We are currently exploring the big idea of identity through perspective. Our inquiry questions are: How can I explain my perspective to others? How can I understand what someone else’s perspective is? Provocations that we are setting up in the neighbourhood and our daily experiences with literacy and numeracy will provide opportunities for students to
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WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING KOFI KUNKPE Traditional Master Drummer In Term 2 students will have the opportunity to participate in a series of 7 sessions with Kofi Kunkpe, experiencing traditional drumming, dancing, songs and culture from Ghana and other West African countries. This experience will commence with a performance by Kofi and other West African artists, and a cultural presentation to help
Numeracy In numeracy this week, we continued our exploration of analogue, 12 hour and 24 hour time as well as tackling some problems based on elapsed time. Students worked in groups as they developed strategies to work out when a series of events started, how long the series of events took, or when the series of events
Literacy In Literacy this week the students built their understanding of sugar in drinks and the related health effects. When reading the information texts they applied the strategy of scanning to detect key information. In spelling the students used feedback from their Literacy books to begin updating their personal spelling lists and looking for common
The Preps have been reading ‘The jigaree’. I can see a jigaree. It is jumping after me. Jumping here. Jumping there. Jigarees jump everywhere! In today’s reading workshop we identified all the ‘doing words’ in the book. (Jumping, dancing, swimming, skating, climbing) We then created our own story, using their own ideas. It is called:
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Everyone is encouraged to have a say in the Princes Hill Primary School Culture project. We are engaging the whole school community in conversations to further develop a learning culture we can all own. Facilitated workshops are being run for parents and teachers to explore the great things our school is doing to help make
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Welcome Picnic and Disco As we settle into the school year making new friends, reconnecting with old friends, learning people’s names and knowing who’s in my child’s class a Welcome Picnic and Disco it’s what’s needed!! Let’s welcome new families to our PHPS Community on Friday 18th March on the big oval from 6-8pm. Bring your picnic rug and picnic …
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Everyone is encouraged to have a say in the Princes Hill Primary School Culture project. We are engaging the whole school community in conversations to further develop a learning culture we can all own. Facilitated workshops are being run for parents and teachers to explore the great things our school is doing to help make our values live,
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