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These past two weeks have seemed busier than usual as we begin to wrap things up for the end of the year. As our expertise with maths, writing, perseverance and collaboration have all grown, the children have been showing what capable learners they really are. We’ve had opportunities for creative maths investigations, writing narratives and…

There’s been a lot of creativity and excitement now that we’re in the final term in Prep. The children have become much more confident writers, mathematicians and are all so capable of explaining their ideas and interests to those around them. We’ve had a number of discussions about what’s to come in the year ahead…

Term 4 has gotten off to a rollicking start with the Prep Worm Farmers releasing their livestock back into the wild. After upending our habitats, we were curious to learn what changes could be noticed. First and foremost, much of the food that had been left in before the break had already been digested. In…

Term 3 has certainly flown by in the prep neighbourhood – so many wonderful learning experiences, and so much fun while we’ve been doing it!  In the studio, our creative students have been excitedly exploring the world of clay, using a variety of tools to add intricate details to their creations. Stemming from Conceptual Playworlds, some…

An Author Comes to Call Following our exciting book week festivities, we’ve been fortunate to host local author (and parent), Alice Pung. During her visit, Alice talked to us about her process for drafting, the importance of cheap notebooks, AND that unlike many other professions, a writer’s tools are relatively easy to come by. She…

National Science Week Demonstrations: Science is all around us and the Preps are always keen to understand more about the world, so we’ve spent some extra time this past week discussing and observing science in action. To get started, we unpacked what ‘science’ means to them. This year’s theme was ‘Species Survival – More Than…

The Olympic excitement has spread to the prep neighbourhood this fortnight and many children are eager to share their knowledge of what they have seen overnight or a favourite sport they have watched. We used this excitement during provocations, and had printouts of countries from around the world that are attending the Olympics, along with…

We have enjoyed a wonderful start to the term in the prep neighbourhood! We kicked things off by celebrating NAIDOC week and the children enjoyed a variety of provocations that celebrated the incredible culture and traditions of our first nations peoples. The studio was buzzing with bush tucker creations – we had children showing each…

We have had a fun filled fortnight, with so much happening in the prep neighbourhood!  We received another voice message from our friend Grey Beard, asking the children the following: “How much loot will fit in your boat, will it sink or will it float?”  Before testing the boats, we had a go at experimenting…

These past few weeks, the Preps have received a number of secret messages from their pirate friends. Redbeard sent the children a counting problem for them to solve. He had four bags of gold coins that he needed to take to the bank, but didn’t know how to add them all together. Learning this, the…