Specialists
Princes Hill Primary School Communication Blogs
Only 19 more sleeps until we start Drumming… ‘Yay’! Term 3 is promising to be fantastic: we will ‘drum the winter blues away’ with Kofi and Appiah, celebrate our Instrumental Music student’s achievements in their Mid Year Concert, launch a new before-school choir ‘Bright Morning Stars’ with Emily Hayes, and explore the art of song …
Building on our experiences of working with complementary colours and examining the colour palette of David Hockney, last week we further developed the ideas behind our knowledge of the colour wheel. During on-line learning, we explored David Hockney’s interpretation of chairs. Back at school, we further explored the everyday, through a selection of still life …
In our Italian sessions together there is a continual focus on student wellbeing as we work together to build a respectful, supportive community of language learners. Experiences support students as they explore, problem solve and collaborate! Italian sessions start with a circle experience: this is an opportunity for a wellbeing check in, as we interact …
As we wind up another busy (interrupted) term, we finished with our focus turning to soccer! At the beginning of the year, we asked the students to put forward their most intended sport/activity – soccer was the most popular. Therefore, the last two weeks post remote learning, we’ve been looking into and discussing the topics …
Hello to everyone, Thank you for all your delightful, creative, humorous, and beautiful responses to Music Online. I have really enjoyed returning to the Seesaw learning platform and seeing/hearing how this facilitates the sharing of your individual musical flair. In music we have been singing about black socks, food lists, and enjoying virtuosic ukulele performances. …
Over the past few weeks we have explored Sonia Delaunay’s work and examined her interest in shape and colour. We have explored primary colours, secondary colours and complementary colours through the mediums of painting and collage. We have understood the relationships between colours and how all colours have an effect on those around them. This …
It’s been a fun filled two weeks with our italiano a casa! It has been delightful to engage in Specialist days for the different year levels, and to receive such wonderful, thoughtful, creative responses from the students. A real opportunity for authentic learning: one student interviewing ‘nonna’ by phone about her likes and dislikes, another …
Over the last two weeks we have come to find ourselves back at home remote learning. Even though it’s somewhat challenging not being able to have our regular HPE sessions at school, we’ve continued to work on our fitness and our healthy minds by being CREATIVE! During the first week of home learning, we asked …