Fun was had by all when our Year 6 Japanese students visited the Year 2 classes as part of a shared learning assessment task. During Term 1, our Year 6 students were introduced to some new Japanese daily expressions and various cultural aspects of...
Year 1, 2 and 3 classes are looking for Grandparents to read with our students. Each grandparent will read with one student at a time, sharing a love of stories together. The students may come from any class throughout Years 1, 2 and 3 and reading...
With a flurry of pencil, paper and rainbow clipboards held at the ready, our brilliant young writers from Years 2-5 honed their creative writing skills! Our writers explored writing tools, techniques and built vocabulary as they enthusiastically...
The Japanese Department invites Prep to Year 5 students to share in a cultural experience to celebrate cultures, language and difference. The continuing message for Harmony Day is that Everyone Belongs, which means all Australians are a welcome part...
This term, Year 2 students have been integrating learning across several subject areas. In Science, we have been studying forces, looking at the effects of push and pull. In Mathematics, we have learned about measuring metres and centimetres and...
This week in Year 1, students considered the key features of a town that would be a great place for families with children to live in. They drew a plan for the building or feature they were making and then we built the town model collaboratively...
We love native Australian animals! As part of their Science unit this term, Year 3 students were able to get up close and hands-on with a variety of native Australian animals, compliments of the Geckoes Wildlife mobile animal unit. The delight that...
This year, our Year 4 classes are participating in the Out of Eden Walk. The ‘walk’ is part of Harvard’s Project Zero and links to the Teaching for Understanding and Visible Thinking frameworks at the College. Students are placed into ‘walking...
This year, the Junior College has set out to integrate our Chicken Coop as a source of connection and relevance across all Prep – Year 5 classes and key learning areas. Term 1 has been taken on by the Year 3 classes and they have tackled the...
Our Young Achievers Creatively Honing Thinking Skills (YACHTS) program this term had students from Years 2-5 embark on a problem solving and thinking skills adventure. “I liked the Dragonquest. We investigated dragons, thought of new functions and...