Hello and welcome to our 2024 neighbourhood learning blog. This is the where we will document our learning journey throughout the year. The successes, the challenges, the impact and the growth. We begin the year with our initial inquiry for our Welcome Project – How do I shape my neighbourhood and how does my neighbourhood […]
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As we continue to work on the time machine, the next step is to build the scratch panel using 2D shapes. The children could choose a range of 2D shapes to represent the control panel and buttons, allowing us to travel through time. During this process, we explored the properties of 2D shapes, such as
Time Machine Works and other links to learning Read More »
Improving children’s resilience helps them to deal with the adversities they experience during childhood. It provides a foundation for developing skills and habits (e.g. coping skills, healthy thinking habits) that enable them to deal with later adversities during adolescence and adulthood. Resilience is also important for children’s mental health. Children with greater levels of resilience
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PHPS Bazaar 2023: what an outstanding day! A massive thank you to everyone for creating a day for our kids where their ‘Bazaar dreams’ came true. All day, the excitement and joy was beaming from their faces, and it was terrific to see so many students helping out and working alongside their parents/carers. The main
The Bazaar Celebrates the Diverse Talents in our Community. Read More »
We’ve enjoyed the magic of music this week to get our bodies moving in musical chairs. It’s been a great resilience building exercise for all too! 56 students have done fitness drills and played tchoukball to practice for their tournament next week. 45 students got the rippa rugby belts on for the first time and
Moving our bodies! Read More »
Students are coming to the end of filming their collaborative films in the three production companies. As a whole neighbourhood, we had a discussion about how we were finding the film making stage of our inquiry projects so far – things we have enjoyed and challenges we have had, and then looked forward to the
Term 4 Week 8 – Film Projects Continued… Read More »
Hello to everyone! We have galloped into November and it feels like a Spring Music Carnival in our neck of the woods (move over horses). In the past couple of weeks we have enjoyed the Specialist’s Assembly, The IM Assembly and End of Year Concert, and umpteen Neighbourhood Variety Show performances across the school as
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This past fortnight Neighbourhood 2 have been getting very serious in their weaving together of all the many elements of film making we have been hard at work on, the; character development, setting production, script writing, table talks, filming and production company meetings. We have also been working with Deb to develop our musical considerations
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The lines of inquiry in Neighbourhood 1 are working hard towards the creation of our Guide to Gratitude. We can now reveal our front cover as a sneak peak ahead of publication… In the Personal Gratitude group, students have made great progress in trialling and reflecting on self-care activities. They are now working on publishing
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Children often have ups and downs that affect the way they feel and behave. But sometimes children don’t ‘bounce back’ from the downs, and this starts to affect other parts of their lives. This can be a sign that children are having mental health problems. Below are signs of mental health problems. If you notice
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