What is on this week. Week Beginning December 8th 2014.

Tuesday 9 December:        The Year 1 children will visit the Year 2 neighbourhood at 2.30.
Wednesday 10 December: Whole School Picnic at Princes Park. We will be leaving school at 11.30.
Friday 12 December:         Parent Helpers Gratitude Afternoon Tea at 2.00 in the gym foyer.

All library books and Junior School Library Books are to be returned. No borrowing of books just book returns please.

125 Years of Education

All children in the school will be invited to dress up for the day, choosing clothing from a decade within the past 125 years.

2015 Term and Curriculum Days

 

Monday 2nd February School Begins for Prep to Year 6 children

Term I: 28th January (teachers begin) – 27th March 2015

Term II: 13th April – 26th June 2015

Term III: 13th July – 18th September 2015

Term IV: 5th October – 18th December 2015

Also a note that school finishes at 2:30pm on the last day of Terms I, II and III and at 2:00pm Term IV.

125 Years of Education at Princes Hill

 

We are having a day to celebrate 125 years of education at Princes Hill on Wednesday 3rd December, 2014.

We will commence with the launch of our new school flag at 9:00am on the mini oval.

The flag emerged from artworks created by students during 2014.

The children worked under the guidance of artist, Helen Johnson.

Following this, tours will be offered at 10:00am, 12:00 midday and 1:00pm.

The tours will begin in the gymnasium with short performances showcasing the interests and talent within the student community, followed by

a guided tour of the learning neighbourhoods where the school’s exploration of the concept of change will be presented.

We also welcome our present community. Tours must be booked through the school office (9389 5300).

We request the people coming on a tour register in the gym foyer ten minutes prior to the start of the tour.

All children in the school will be invited to dress up for the day, choosing clothing from a decade within the past 125 years.

 

Tabloid Sports

Transition Event. The children from Preps, One and Two will be working together every Thursday morning throughout November on the large oval in tabloid sports groups. They will be supported by 5/6 children.
Children put away their bags and then line up outside the library with hats and drinks by 9 o'clock.
Please use the front door to allow the kinder families courtyard access to the Prep Neighbourhood.

Time of the Year One Arcade pop up at the Bazaar

Hi everyone,

We have arranged to have our pop-up arcade at the Bazaar on the 16th November at 10.30am-11.30am. Hopefully all the children can be there at this time to run their game or slightly earlier to help set up.

The games are looking fantastic and we are very proud of the children's creativity, persistence and team work. Again, thank you to the parents who have come in to help with the games, it has made the world of difference.

See you on the 16th for our day of play!

The Year One Arcade: What are we Learning?

The Year One Arcade is coming together.

Thank you to the parents and carers who have come in to help their child's group shape up their game. They are starting to look very sturdy and exciting!

There is so much learning occurring alongside our Inquiry so here is a snapshot of some of the learning occurring in the year one neighbourhood at the moment:

Literacy:

• The children are learning many genres of writing during learning agreement and in writing targets including:
• Letters - to Gabbie requesting a pop up at the Bazaar
• Environmental Print - writing signage and posters for their arcades and the Bazaar
• Procedural Text- Instructions to their arcade game
• Recounts and reflections - related to our excursions
• Thinking Routines - about change
• Reader's response - linked to our sustainability Inquiry: Places, who cares what matters?(Story: Refugees)
• Newspaper Report - after our pop up arcade at the Bazaar
• Through these genres, children are developing their drafting, editing and publishing skills and building their word study and spelling knowledge. 
• The spelling focus is the commonly used words, word endings (s, ed, ing), using a known word as a strategy to spell an unknown word (analogy).
• Handwriting: practising letter formation when publishing and developing fine motor skills.
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Numeracy:

• Term 3 focus was on Time and the children worked on reading the time, interpreting calendars, measuring the duration of every day events.
• Term 4 focus is on measurement and shape
• Using informal and formal units of measurement to estimate, compare and measure their arcade games and boxes (using unifix, 30cm and metre rulers, measuring tapes)
• Investigating 2D and 3D shapes
• Addition and Subtraction strategy targets which will support mental addition of point scores for their arcade games.

Personal and Interpersonal Learning:

• The children are learning about team work, collaboration, 
• The children are learning to work in teams to complete structured activities within a set timeframe
• Students learn to stay on task and share resources fairly. In response to questions and prompts, they learn to reflect on the team’s challenges and successes and their contribution to the team’s effectiveness.

Design and Technology:

• Using creative, imaginative and inventive thinking
• Offering ideas and suggestions to improve ideas of others
• Working with recycled materials and joining techniques
• Investigate how things work 
• Play with and manipulate materials and think about and describe their properties. 
• Develop basic designs with drawings, models and prototypes
• Explain set of instructions for how something works

Assessment and Reporting

The reading and writing profiles are currently being developed on every child and will be available in your child's portfolio before the end of the year. We are currently administering various assessment tasks and gathering work samples for moderation across the whole school for reporting purposes.