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Life Education
Over the past 2 weeks each grade has participated in the Life Education Program. This is a health and well-being Program which aligns with our Social and Emotional Skills Program and Inquiry that we teach. Each year level completed a different program relating to...
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Premiers’ Reading Challenge has begun!
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge has begun! What a start our students have had reading many books already. The school has read 621 books in total! The enthusiasm from the students is fantastic to see. Keep reading over the holidays and don’t forget to log your books...
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Footy Day
On Wednesday 12th September the whole school enjoyed a Footy Day celebrating their teams. Many colours could be seen from AFL, Rugby Union and Soccer teams. The students also enjoyed a hot lunch of pizza. After lunch the school had a parade and listened to all the...
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Rainbow and Sunflower Day
On Friday the 24th August, the Junior School Council organised a special day where you could wear ‘Rainbow and Sunflower Colours’ in support of Mrs Lindsay Kennedy (a past teacher) who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Her choice of charity is the McGrath...
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Science Open afternoon
The 22nd August the students were all about science, opening their classrooms to their parents to come in and see what we have been learning about. It may be messy but lots of learning and problem solving skills were developed through making volcanoes, watching magic...
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Open Afternoon
The students of Narre Warren North showcased their artistic skills for both performing arts and visual arts during open afternoon. Lots of colour was used to express their artistic skills and imaginations.whilst lots of fun was had during the performing arts songs,...
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Mothers’ Day Morning
On Friday the 10th of May, we celebrated Mothers’ Day by spoiling our Mothers with a pampering session. We decorated cookies, painted their nails, read books, coloured in pictures and gave massages. We had a wonderful time showing our Mothers’ how much we love them....
read morePrep – Term 2 2019
This Term is an exciting Term for Preps. We have lots of celebrations coming our way. We are celebrating Mothers’ Day with our Mothers by spending a morning showing how much we love them. We are also celebrating Grandparents’/Special Friend day during Education Week....
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Cultural Diversity Week
During Cultural Diversity Week, the Preps celebrated each of the different countries that our families come from. We completed different tasks to represent each country for example, we made alpine hats to represent Germany. We also celebrated how we are all different...
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Term 1 Phonics
During Term 1, the Preps participated in a range of phonics activities helping us learn our letters and sounds. Please enjoy some photos of the tasks that we completed.
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Term 1 in Prep: In Term 1, the Prep children will be learning the following: English: CAFÉ Reading: Learning reading behaviours: getting started straight away, reading the whole time, staying in 1 spot, reading quietly and building stamina. Learning strategies:...
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Coding
This Term the Prep students are exploring the world of coding. They started coding on the Chromebooks and have now moved onto using robots. Students have been coding the robots to make different shapes and completing different challenges. If you would like to try some...
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1/2 – Term 2 2019
Inquiry Topic Focus – Sustainability The students will explore Sustainability throughout the term. Each 1/2 class will consider how they sustain their health, their friendships and their environment. The students will explore the Sustainability topic whilst posing the...
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Naughty Jeffery
The students were so annoyed at Jeffery out class mascot for leaving to go to Queensland without telling us. We were glad to receive his postcard letting us know that he was ok. The students have been learning all about letter writing and decided to write him a stern...
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Measurement in 1-2C
The students learned that we can measure things not just with rulers but also with the blue bots! It has been fun and interesting comparing the length of things using formal and informal units. We also compared the difference between centimeters and millimeters. The...
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Inquiry Topic Focus – Identity The students will explore their own identities throughout the term. Each Grade 1/2 class has a Mascot to take home. The students will share things they liked to do with their mascot to the class enabling everyone to get to know each...
read moreGrade 1/2 -Term 4 – 2018
Inquiry Topic Focus for Term 4 – ‘Where in the world’ Big concepts and questions: What is a country? What is a capital city or city? Where in the world can we find different countries? What are some of the things we can find in different countries? Are other...
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Shark Tank
The Grade 1-2 Students have been working hard on their inventions to fix problems in our country. Each student found an issue; littering, too much plastic, not enough recycling, car emissions and more. Then they developed an invention to solve these issues and...
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Cross Country
4A Environmental Walk
4A went for a walk around our school looking at Sustainable Practices for Waste, Water, Energy and Biodiversity. Students identified what we are doing well and what we could do better in these areas.
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ENGLISH Students in Grades 3 and 4 will continue to work on the C.A.F.E reading strategies during Term 2. Strategies will be taught as a whole class, while students work on individual strategies during read to self and strategy groups. In Term 2, students will be...
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ENGLISH Students in Grades 3 and 4 will begin the term by revising and practising reading protocols. They will begin to build reading stamina through the C.A.F.É Reading Program with Read to Self and Read to Someone. They will be introduced to what it means to be a...
read moreGrade 3/4 – Term 4- 2018
Grade 3 and 4 English Reading Students in Grades 3 and 4 will continue to build their reading stamina through the C.A.F.É Reading Program with Read to Self and Read to Someone. We will revisit the skills of being able to pick books that are suitable for their level...
read moreGrade 3/4 – Term 3 2018
Grade 3 and 4 English Students in Grades 3 and 4 will continue to build their reading stamina through the C.A.F.É Reading Program with Read to Self and Read to Someone. We will revisit the skills of being an effective coach through Read to Someone. Students will be...
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Cross Country
5/6 – Term 2 2019
The Year 5/6 students have had a nice slow ease into the term with Easter Monday, ANZAC Day and Curriculum Day. Our school captains did an excellent job running our ANZAC Assembly during week 1 and our Grade 5/6 students presented some outstanding examples of their...
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The Year 5/6 students have quickly settled back into the new school year. With our focus on ‘Building a Culture of High Expectations’ students are being encouraged to come to school with an open mind, a willingness to try new things and always endeavouring to do their...
read moreGrade 5/6 – Term 4 – 2018
Grade 5/6 look forward to an exceptionally busy term. Term 4 sees us exploring creativity and building on our business model from last term. Students will be analysing the things they consume and use and have been mass produced. They will be more discerning about the...
read moreGrade 5/6 – Term 3 2018
Grade 5/6 look forward to another exciting term! Term 3 sees us investigating business ideas and creating budgets through the Connections unit ‘Data & Decisions’. Students will be exploring the difference between needs and wants, types of resources we have and how...
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Grade 5/6 Term 2 2018
Beginning Term 2, the 5/6 cohort is exploring a new Writing program called VOICES. This program focuses on the individual elements of Writing which are categorised into 6 headings; Voice, Organisation, Ideas, Conventions, Excellent Word Choice and Sentence Fluency. We...
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Visual Arts – Term 2 2019
For the first part of Term 2 focus in the art room for the Preps will be painting skills. They will be painting several pictures focusing on holding the brush correctly, brush strokes and even application of paint. They will also be doing some paint flicking using...
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During the first weeks of Visual Arts in 2019 all students have engaged in discussions about the ways they may be able to demonstrate the school values in the Art room. We have discussed students’ rights and responsibilities in the Art room and how to use the Art room...
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This term we have a lot of exciting projects coming up. Our foundation students will be working on repetition and patterns, using different tools and paint to create images. We will be off to the circus in class, creating unique clown collages and painted lions. Maybe...
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Term 3 This term we will be focussing on improving drawing, collage and painting skills. Our foundation students will be learning about layering papers and creating collages while improving cutting and fine motor skills. It will be back to the basics, with the...
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Visual Arts Term 2 2018
This term we have a lot of exciting projects coming up. Our foundation students will be working on repetition and patterns, using different tools and paint to create images. We will be off to the circus in class, creating unique clown collages and painted lions. Maybe...
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This term we are creating a giant communal art piece- consisting of a garden collage of textile sewing pieces. Each student in the school will add pieces to the giant art work over the year. Many students are already working with clay to create underwater sea...
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P.E – Term 2 2019
Physical Education at Narre Warren North Primary School is linked to the Victorian Curriculum and aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable them to improve and maintain their physical health and wellbeing. Students focus on...
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Physical Education at Narre Warren North Primary School is linked to the Victorian Curriculum and aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable them to improve and maintain their physical health and wellbeing. Students focus on the...
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Physical Education at Narre Warren North Primary School is linked to the Victorian Curriculum and aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable them to improve and maintain their physical health now and into the future. Students from...
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The aim in Physical Education is for students to be actively involved in sport and to have the skills required to participate in a fun and supportive environment. In order to achieve this, students at Narre Warren North Primary focus directly on the fundamental motor...
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Science – Term 2 2019
This term in Science we are studying Earth Science. Students will learn about natural and manmade resources. They will learn about how human use and natural processes cause change to the Earth and how this affects us. Students in Grades 3 – 6 are learning about...
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This year all students will be involved in our Science Program again. We have lots of fun and engaging new activities for everyone. In Term 1 all students will be learning about Physical Sciences. In Prep to Grade 2 students will be learning about our 5 Senses, Light...
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Science – Term 4
In term 4 students are exploring the living world through the study of Biology. Our junior school have searched for living and non-living things. Students have been in the garden planting cucumbers, zucchinis, sunflowers and Marigolds. Students are watching their...
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Term 3 Science In Term 3 we will be focusing on Chemical Science. This term students will get to be involved in a range of hands on experiments. They will mix together a variety of different chemicals, make predictions and observe how they change once they are mixed....
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Technology Lunchtime Club
The lunch time technology club started this term. Many of the students have participated in using technology to create. They have made electronic circuits with working lights, fans and motors. In Term 3 we will use coding in our lunch time club. Students will be able...
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Science Term 2 2018
In Term 2 in Science students are learning Earth and Space Science. Prep, Grade one and Grade 2 are learning about changes in the sky. This includes weather, the seasons the phases of the Moon and the stars. Preps created windmills to show the wind moving. Grade 1 and...
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Environmental Club – Term 1 2019
This year Environmental Club will be running again on Tuesdays at 2:10 in the garden for the green thumbs at the school who would like to learn more about gardening, planting flowers, fruits and vegetables or just helping make our garden look beautiful.
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News from the Garden
News from the Garden. We have our first carrots. Last week the Environmental Club harvested our first lot of carrots. These carrots were then washed, peeled and cut so that everyone could try some. The children thought they tasted delicious, giving them a huge thumbs...
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National Plant a Tree Day
Last Friday 27th of July the Environmental Club participated in National Tree Day. We planted 2 apples trees in our vegie garden, one red and one green. Our Environmental Leaders and the Environmental Club dug holes, carried compost and planted both trees. We are...
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Term 2, 2018
Winter is coming. The Environmental Club have been hard at work planting spinach, rocket, lettuce and carrots. They have also been weeding, watering and moving soil for more planting. Exciting news the spinach and lettuce are beginning to sprout. The mandarin tree is...
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