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During the first 2 weeks of Term the Prep students have had a ball attending swimming lessons. The bus ride over to the pool was our favourite part with our bus driver playing Baby Shark for us to sing along to. Thank you to all the parents for helping us get changed...

In Visual Arts, the students in Year 3 & 4 have just completed a unit on observational drawing using oil pastel. They studied pictures of big cat faces (leopards, tigers etc.)  and then sketched their own big cat face by observing very carefully and drawing what...

On Wednesday 22nd June, the Preps invited their Grandparents and Special Guests to school during Education Week. Altogether, we dabbled in some Arts and Crafts to create a self-portrait, journeyed around the school for an interactive tour and visited the Book Fair for...

Grade 1A have been focusing upon Chance in Maths. They made spinners and then used them with a paperclip to create their own chance spinner. The students tracked the chance result ten times to see if the outcome would be the same or different. Grade 1A students really...

Each week Grade 1/2 students complete a 'Socratic Circle' session to work on their Speaking and Listening skills. The inner circle discusses the text or picture prompts, aiming to work out the 'Main Idea'. While the outer circle is critiquing how well the inner circle...

The Grade 1/2 students participate in maths flexible groupings. Here the students can practise skills that they need to improve on. The students mix between classes and work together to gain more knowledge in the area of place value. The students have been enjoying...

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools,...

For our annual Open Night, the Grade 3 and 4 students showcased their achievements by displaying the work they were most proud of. Those who attended did an outstanding job explaining their work to their parents.     [gallery...

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...

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....

The students in 1/2C have been very enthusiastic about Wacky Wednesday! Whether it be playing games in a different way, reading the months of the year backwards, or even reading words backwards it's always lots of fun. Today we had to pass a hula hoop around the class...

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.  

CAFÉ Reading in 12C is important work! The learning intention for this task was ‘finding the word meaning in context’. It’s hard work finding the clues to figure out the meanings of words we don’t know. Look how they are concentrating and helping each other work them...

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...

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.    

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We had a wonderful time spending the morning with our Dads. We got to play games, read books, build things and plant a pot plant with them. We would like to say thank you to our Dads for coming we had a fantastic time.

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...

On Thursday 13th September Athletes Foot came in to teach our Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students how to tie their shoelaces. It was tricky to begin with but many children learnt how to tie their laces for the first time. Keep practicing this skill at home and they...

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...

On Friday the 3rd of August, the Preps celebrated 100 days of learning, growing and laughing at school. We all dressed up to celebrate and had fun wearing our creative costumes that represent 100. We are looking forward to the next 100 days. [gallery...

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...

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...