Students have returned with much gusto and enthusiasm to continue their project work. We have been investigating how to break a project into smaller manageable steps and then reflect about the work completed each session and have been checking in as a group to see if we have achieved our goals. Each student has a…
My Mum said we are going to a poo farm?
Yes that is right, we visited the Western Treatment Plant, destination of Melbourne’s waste. The educators regaled us with the history of the town of Cocoroc , its fine history of being one of the first places to have an AFL Women’s team and then its transformation into the premier destination to treat Melbourne’s waste….
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!
We had an amazing time last week for book week dressing up as our favourite characters. Our class was graced with the presence of none other than Mr Stink, Dog Man, Gandalf, Harry Potter, Fitz, The Savages and some spectacular Greek Gods and Demigods, to name but a few. We were blown away with the…
You Can’t knock Me Down – Resilient People, Resilient Buildings
Students have been challenged to design a sustainable, green, classroom of the future. We have begun by researching sustainability and green buildings, sketching building concepts with sustainable features, investigating architectural drawings (with engineering design in mind), and started creating floor plans for our possible future neighbourhood. We have been measuring the classrooms and the fittings…
Green Walls, Waterfalls & Plastic Bottles
Our inquiry is re-focussing on sustainability, concentrating on how consumerism, energy use and unequal consumption are impacting on the biosphere. Are we being responsible global citizens in our individual and community actions? What rights and responsibilities do we have, if we are to be effective contributors to a sustainable, fair and enjoyable future? We are…
What? A Green School? Can we make that?
Welcome all to term 3. Neighborhood 1 has hit the ground running, and is already very busy with an ambitious suite of goals for this term. Our inquiry is re-focusing on sustainability. We are relating our previous inquiry into systems, both natural and human, into how human systems and processes such as consumerism, energy use…
What Other Possible Explanation Could There Be?
Our amazing students have excelled in their learning this week. As a collective we have worked brilliantly to prepare a short dramatic production for Fridays Assembly. Rather than share our excellent Shark Tank businesses with the school, our ambitious students wanted to share our classroom mysteries stories in an interesting performance. This performance will highlight…
Get Out of The Water! The Sharks are Coming!
Year 3/4 NH1 https://blogs.phps.vic.edu.au/year-34-n1-2024 Duunnn dunnn… duuuunnnn duun… duuunnnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn dunnnn…..Get out of the Water! The Sharks are coming………………… Relax….. the sharks have already visited. 3/ 4 neighbourhood 1 had a fantastic week preparing their business proposals for the arrival of the Shark Tank…
Show me the MONEY!
As part of our investigation into systems students expressed interest in learning about businesses and expressed an interest to create shops. To build this into a meaningful and real-life context, we have set a provocation that students are a group of budding entrepreneurs with big ideas. The only problem is they have no money! The…
Australia…. Somewhere to Send Our Undesirables!
This week in 3/4 neighborhood 1 we have been unpacking our big questions about systems and cycles: What are laws, systems, and cycles? How have the laws, systems and cycles been established? How do these systems differ across the world? In response students have been engaged in exploring Australian History. In discussions this week we…