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Princes Hill Primary School Communication Blogs
The entire Prep cohort have been enrolled in the Premiers’ Reading Challenge for 2024. The challenge has already begun but there are still many days left to read and log books. The goal for students in Prep is to have read 20 books from the challenge list, as well as 10 ‘choice’ books by the …
The Importance of Projects (and Grandparents Day) This quote from Fabius is at the heart of why projects are an important and integral part of a collective inquiry at Princes Hill Primary School. For children to deeply learn, we believe they must find authentic contexts in which to explore their curiosity, engage with each other’s …
Amie and Anais This year we have learned… We have developed all kinds of relationships… “We sorted out who gets the Pokemon card called Pikachu. We traded and we talked to each other.” Dexter and Jasper Some things we really enjoyed this year were… ” I really loved construction because I like building and I …
This week, a special delivery arrived in our Prep Neighbourhood. This delivery highlighted the energy around our prep projects. These projects are student-driven responses to our year’s inquiries into ‘creativity’. Each of the projects are now gaining momentum and will be a wonderful way to reflect and celebrate our year’s learning together. Our projects will …
Our collective efforts to stay connected through lockdown and remote learning have been paid forward over the last 2 weeks. Children appeared grounded in their social connections, providing an air of confidence as they smoothly and joyfully rekindled friendships and settled into neighbourhood routines. We, as educators, could feel the sense of community and belonging …
Complexity or Simplicity in Creativity Over the term break, whilst looking through the Prep Creativity documentation, a recorded conversation and a piece of artwork, created from an online provocation, continually drew our attention.These insights into children’s thinking ignited ideas of exploring creativity through complexity and simplicity. Albie- I think creativity is when, like, you make …
As the Preps work individually on provocations, remote learning can feel isolating and as though we are learning in a bubble. We, as educators, have been provoking students to explore concepts that ultimately support students’ collective understandings and projects. Collectively, Preps identified that creativity needs to be defined in multiple ways. We recognise that we …
Nature and our courtyard garden have been a consistent point of reference and connection throughout our research and discoveries into our collective understanding of creativity. We have constantly sought opportunities for deepening this connection whenever and wherever possible. I see creativity when we are looking in the garden. Arlo I see creativity when I look …
In our neighbourhood, we have continued to observe children delving deeper into their inquiries and understanding of creativity. Through the lens of construction, storytelling, and art, the children are exploring form and function and beauty. As each of the learning spaces provokes further inquiry, we, as educators, are noticing the development of language and literacy …
Remote learning has presented the Prep Neighbourhood and families with another opportunity to diversify, identify and apply different ways of being creative. We, as educators, are increasingly finding snapshots of creativity in otherwise unnoticed pockets of our daily lives and observing children doing the same. In many cases, children are leading us to uncover new …