URGENT Swimming Helper

Dear parents,

We still need one more parent helper to go to swimming with Elizabeth's homegroup from 11:15am on Monday the 8th of December. 

If you are able to attend this session, please see Elizabeth on Monday morning.

Thanks,
Elizabeth, Kevin and Sia

125 Years of Education at Princes Hill - Dress-up Day

As part of our 125^th Celebrations on Wednesday 3^rd December the children will be asked to dress-up for the day, with children wearing clothing from any decade within the last 125 years. 

Princes Hill School Council

125 Years of Education at Princes Hill

We are having a day to celebrate 125 years of education at Princes Hill on 3^rd December, 2014. The event will commence with the launch of our new school flag at 9:00am. This will occur on the mini oval.  The flag emerged from artworks created by students during 2014, celebrating their values and identity. The children worked under the guidance of artist, Helen Johnson. Following this there will be a day of exposition highlighting contemporary education at Princes Hill Primary School. Tours will be offered at 10:00am, 12:00 midday and 1:00pm. The tours will begin in the gymnasium with a short performance 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. This will be an opportunity for Princes Hill’s past alumni to revisit their school days. We also welcome our present community members to join us during the day.  Tours must be booked through the school office (93895300). 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.

Princes Hill Primary School Council

Parent Helpers for Swimming

Dear parents/helpers,

During the last two weeks of term, the year two students will be involved in an intensive swimming program. We are looking for interested parents to volunteer as helpers on the swimming days.

A sign up sheet will be placed on the front window of the neighbourhood with the days, groups and times. If you are interested, please come and sign up for a session that suits you.

Thanks in advance,
Kevin, Elizabeth and Sia

BYOD Information Session

Dear Parents,

There will be a 1 to 1 MacBook BYOD information session for parents of year 2 students held on Wednesday 12th of November at 4pm in the 34 neighbourhood 1 performance space. The session will be the first of two sessions and it will provide information about our 1 to 1 MacBook program and the transition to a BYOD format in 2015. Parents of students who will be in year 3 in 2015 are invited to attend. Anita L'Enfant, a school council member and expert in BYOD programs, will be presenting at the session along with members of staff.  Please register your interest for this session with Julie at the office. We hope to see you there. 

Keith McNeill

1 to 1 MacBook Coordinator

Princes Hill Primary School

CERES Excursion

Last week the Year Two Neighbourhood went on excursion to CERES Community Environment Park. We had a fabulous time participating in four workshops: Worms and Minibeasts, Bin Sort and Plastic Fantastic, Paper Making and a walk on the Merri Creek.

Thank you to the parent helpers who joined us for the excursion - it was great to spend the day with you!

Here are some photos from the excursion:

Dear Parents,
Cara's dad, Farans De Vos is coming into the neighbourhood on Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. after Book-talk to play music and sing with us.
He has donated copies of the music from the motion picture "Blinder". If you would like a copy of the CD please come in and collect it from Sia, Kevin or Elizabeth.
Thanks to Cara's Dad for his kind donation.

Things to look at...

Here are two great links for you to look at at home:

Storyline Online: Picture books read by actors. They are great stories, and read very well! Almost as good as Kevin!

http://www.storylineonline.net/

Also, here is the link to the book that we read today about the ducks, Refugees by David Miller:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxH1uWJW_0

Enjoy!

CARNIVAL / DISCO

Roll up, Roll up to our wonderful CARNIVAL/DISCO  Night – Friday 24th October from 6pm –8pm at the gym/back oval. We will have an evening of dancing and laughter. There will be a few surprises and some prizes for best costumes and dancers. You may impress us with a hoola hoop or create a magnificent mask – there will be something for everyone! Most importantly it is an opportunity to catch up with our wonderful community. Bring a picnic and a picnic blanket or chairs to sit on – we hope you can make it! 

Email Kathryn atkathryn@jonestid.com.au if you have any questions.

Thank you
Kathryn Fraser

Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 4!

We are excited about our new whole school inquiry, Places: Who cares? What matters? - exploring Sustainability.  We have started our learning by identifying places that are important to us and what they mean to us.
The children created a mural in our neighbourhood depicting their favourite places and how they make them feel.

THE GREAT BOOK SWAP ON WEDS SEPTEMBER 17

To help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. It also means we all get to have a new book!!!

There are schools involved across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000 books.

If every child can please bring a book to school on Weds Sept 17 that they love but no longer want and a gold coin donation, then they can be part of the book swap. By donating a gold coin, they can then swap their book for a new book that someone else has donated.

They just need to bring their books to the gym before school starts on Weds Sept. 17 and the gym will turn into a huge book swapping bookshop at lunch time. 

Hopefully everyone will be involved so we can all raise money for a very important cause and have a terrific new book to take home. Check out the website for more information: www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

Book Week Dress-Up Day

Today the children dressed up as their favourite book characters.  The children paraded in-front of the whole school at assembly this morning and later spent time reading their favourite books to the year one and prep students.  We had wonderful day!

Number lines

We have been creating number lines in the playground using chalk. Number lines allow children to represent number operations in a distinctly different way.  The children generated sums using their number lines. Children were asked to predict sums and to answer puzzles involving addition and subtraction.
Sia

Library Opening Times

Dear Parents,

The library will be open daily for borrowing before school from 8.45, and lunchtimes from 11.10 to 11.40 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

The Junior School Library books will also be issued through the computer borrowing system. One computer is set up for book returns whist the other is for borrowing. Leigh will be there for the returns and borrowing.

It is important that all books are returned through the computer borrowing system.

Rita (Year 1)

Book Weeks - Week 5 & Week 6

In the next two weeks we will be celebrating Book Week. We encourage the children to bring along their favourite book or books to share with the class. The year 2 teachers will be bringing along their own favourite books which they will be sharing with the year 2 neighbourhood. On Tuesday 19th August we ask the children to dress-up as book characters for Assembly and a special book week parade. To finish off Book Week celebrations there will be a Performance presentation on Tuesday 26th August. The notices came home with the children on Friday.
Thank you
Sia

Book Talk

Thank you to all the parents and year 5/6 students who join us on Wednesday morning for book talk. We look forward to seeing next week.

Sia

Austalian Girls Choir Assessment Workshop

To celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Australian Girls Choir an assessment workshop will be held at Princes Hill Primary School on Monday, 18^th August. Interested girls from years 1-6 are invited to participate in a group workshop. A parent permission form can be obtained from Anne-Maree (please return to the office ASAP).

Thank you,

Anne-Maree Seccull

Book Week

As part of Book Week the students will be participating in a whole school mini inquiry., commencing on Monday the 11^th  of August  and concluding with a special 2.30 pm assembly  on Thursday 21^st of August. A big part of the inquiry will be to investigate, through book talk, how readers connect to the stories they read, and the kinds of personal, social, cultural and literary assumptions the writer is making about their reader.   A reader’s prior knowledge and experiences support readers in responding to the meanings of the texts they read.  Book talk not only encourages students to engage in and respond to the books they are reading, but by listening  to the varied experiences of  their peers, also enriches their own experience of the text. As a community of readers, we would like to extend an invitation for parents to come into the neighbourhood of their child and share a book that resonated with them at a similar age.  Please let your child’s teachers know if you would like to participate in sharing your experience with the children  by arranging a suitable time for this to occur.

Tim Aris

Student learning

Book Talk

A reminder that this term we will be continuing to run our Book Talk sessions on Wednesdays from 9-10am. If you are interested in being a book talk leader, do not hesitate to come in!

Thanks,
Kevin, Elizabeth and Sia