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