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Princes Hill Primary School Communication Blogs
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 …
We’ve been learning a lot of interactive language and essential phrases to aid social interaction: grazie, per favore, posso avere……, mi dispiace, permesso (thank you, please, may I have, I’m sorry, excuse me) are just a few examples. Students are experiencing this essential language through games, social interactions, viewing of authentic Italian language texts, reading, …
The previous two weeks of this term has us turn from the round ball (basketball and netball) to the oval ball – Aussie Rules Football! Voted one of the popular sports this year from the students, it certainly was two exciting HPE sessions for all of our home groups. Continuing on with the development of …
Hello everyone, Across the Neighbourhoods we are continuing to hone our skills in learning short songs and rounds by heart. It has been so much fun, and the students are developing their aural awareness and imitation skills. The whole school is continuing to learn ‘Dream Baby, Dream’ for our Reconciliation Assembly, the Yr 1/2 Ngh …
‘Colour is the skin of the world’ Sonia Delaunay – abstract artist (Tate, London) ‘About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of …
Bamboo, Ukuleles, News jingles, Italian lullabies, clapping games, rounds, and on the horizon… Kofi Kunkpe is returning for more African Drumming… YAY! This week, let’s catch up with what has been happening across the school in Music. Mother’s Day Assembly: What a perfect morning! Our outdoor assemblies really do have a touch of magic about …
Students across the school have been engaging in a variety of performing arts experiences to embed new language. Drama games such as sciarade (charades), testa giu` (head down), numeri (numbers), non importa (it doesn’t matter) are all assisting us to practise and consolidate key learning around adjectives, new vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, whilst using our …