Book Week was a roaring success this year with so many of our outstanding students dressing up and looking amazing! A big thank you to all parents, students and teachers who put in a massive effort into their costumes, activities and enthusiasm for all things reading! BOOK WEEK PARADE We started the morning off with…
Father’s and Special Carer’s Assembly
We read and responded to ‘Love Was Hiding’ by Jennifer Loakes and Jess Racklyeft. The children were asked to think about how fathers and the special people in their lives show them that they care. They created artworks and writing to match. Scroll down for a link to the video we shared at the assembly.
Getting our hands dirty!
Clay is a wonderful medium. It allows for exploration that builds over time, based on a child’s individual needs and interests. Working with clay is very supportive of a child’s fine motor skill development. Clay is an extremely responsive material which makes it even more appealing to young children. It has therapeutic qualities which benefit…
Visiting our local library.
This week, the prep neighbourhood went on a walking excursion to the Carlton library in Rathdowne Street. There were two reasons we organised this excursion. One reason being that Book Week is fast approaching, so it seemed an ideal opportunity to explore our local library and share our love of books. The other was to…
NAIDOC Week Art Studio
Natural materials are a big part of Aboriginal arts. To connect with this, children searched through a selection of natural materials and placed these over a piece of cardboard which they covered using torn pieces of bark sheets as a background. The paperbark mosaic formed the backdrop whilst stones, paper bark, leaves, shells, gum, nuts, twine…
End of Term Assembly
For those of you interested in rewatching the Prep’s contribution to the school’s Term Two Assembly, a link has been created for you here. In it, you’ll find a small selection of videos related to our exploration of collaboration through various construction projects and a dinosaurs mural.
What are you proud of?
Im proud of collaborating and mixing ideas with other peoples! Ursula As the term draws to an end, the children have been reflecting on their two terms of school. We began our reflection by asking the children what are you proud of? I’m proud of getting better at all the maths! Raph I’m proud of…
Building Our Understanding of Collaboration
“In provocations we did collaboration.” Allen This response from Allen to the writing reflection in which children had a go at writing what they had been doing in provocations sums up our focus. It’s also a clear indication that the children have a solid understanding of our inquiry into collaboration. We see collaboration in all…
What Can We Leave Behind?
The children have begun to notice traces of past inquiries left by previous preps and have begun to ask the question ‘what can we leave behind?’ We’ve reflected on our learning over the course of the year and the children were able to identify and discuss that our inquiry has been on the concept of…
Strong & Capable
The children have settled back into school beautifully. Every day they demonstrate what strong and capable children they are, following our daily routines with ease and confidence. It is a joy to have them back! We continue our inquiry into what it means to “collaborate”. To grow the children’s understanding of “collaboration” and make connections…