As the students continue to settle and resettle after our brief encounter with remote learning, we continue to observe students’ needs and interactions with each other and our learning spaces. Throughout the Neighbourhood, we have encountered continued interactions relating to organisation and classification. Furthermore, in the past week or so, we are beginning to see […]
As we continue to look forward in celebrating the end of what’s been a very challenging, but successful year, the students have taken the time this week to think deeply and reflect on the achievements they’ve each made both at school and during remote learning. Through the many themes we’ve covered in our inquiry focuses,
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As we wrap up the school year, there has been a school-wide focus on student agency – children having the opportunity to explore activities and practice sport-specific skills. Highlights from the Preps – creating and building movement courses for the space hoppers. Year 1 – students with a shared love of dance routines. Year 2
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Welcome to our last learning blog for 2020. We would like to express that despite the complexities brought on by Covid 19 our time in the Prep Neighbourhood has been one of momentous growth, curiosity and exploring new ways to learn together as a community. Together we have learned many new things that will be
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Collaging stories ‘Collage is putting bits of pieces of paper together to make a big bit of paper’ Hattie Yr 1 If each little bit of paper is like one of our stories, and bringing each little piece of paper together is like bringing all our stories together. ‘This will make one big story’… Lucinda
Our beautiful Mural- Our Big Story Read More »
Hi everyone, As we begin to wind the year up in our neighbourhood, during one of our whole group discussions the students voiced they wanted to create their very own thank you letters to their parents/carers as part of their support during remote learning/Seesaw. The students wanted to write a meaningful message about how they
Today’s science wondering. https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/eucalypt-bark/9428480
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As a neighbourhood we have worked together this year to help each other learn more about ourselves and our community. We engaged in a variety of experiences such as writing our own Autobiographies, investigating what makes us and our families happy, connecting with nature, working to improve ourselves (both academically and our mental wellbeing) because
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I told my mum I counted to 100. She was so proud. Lulu Inspired by Lulu’s quote we have been exploring different ways to authentically engage and challenge the Preps mathematically over the last couple of weeks. We asked Lulu to share her experience and then invited the children to accept the
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Expo this week – HPE videos are available to view the learning journey of each neighborhood. Key learning for this week, across neighborhoods Prep – Games and fundamental movement skills. Year 1 – Dodging! The kids have been playing games and doing movement drills to practice changing direction while running. They have been practicing transferring