Final Day

It is a Princes Hill Primary School tradition to have a farewell assembly in the gym on the last day of school. The assembly starts at 1:30 and is an opportunity to say goodbye to the Year 6 children and any children or staff who are leaving the school. Children will take their bags to the gym and are to be picked up at 2pm from the gym.

Final Days Happenings!

Wednesday
11:30 Whole School Picnic at Princes Park. Children are asked to bring a small plate of food to share, a hat and a water bottle.

Friday
1:30 Whole School Assembly in the gym
Last day finish at 2:00

Action Required: Autobiographies - Student Profiles

Thank you to the families who have helped their children write their autobiography.

Please email the completed autobiography to princes.hill.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

For more information about the purpose of these profiles please read the ‘student profiles’ article located on the school website home page http://www.phps.vic.edu.au/

Thank you

Rita Jokubaitis. Student Pathways and Transitions.

Whole School Transition

The Whole School Transition program for 2014 commenced today with a visit by all children to acquaint themselves with their 2014 neighbourhood spaces. 

 

Tomorrow and Monday, the children will be moving to their 2014 Neighbourhood spaces at 2:30pm and will be dismissed from that new neighbourhood at the following meeting points.

 

                Year 1 – The front door on Pigdon Street

               

                Year 2 – The Library (which is now the Year 2 Learning Neighbourhood)

 

                Year 3/4 – Neighbourhood 1 on the oval side nearest the Gym … Neighbourhood 2 – on the       

                oval side, half way down the building

 

                Year 5/6 – from the 5/6 Gallery at the end of the Admin building

 

Prep Celebration: Small Change

Due to the Year 6 graduation being set up in the gym on Wednesday we will start the presentation on the mini oval before moving into the Prep Neighbourhood where slide shows and a short movie will be showed throughout the Neighbourhood.

Week 10 Happenings

Prep Celebration is on this Thursday!

Planning week: Specialist timetable is different this week

Whole school transition with the current teachers

Monday
2:00 - 2:30 Parent helpers afternoon tea in the gym

Tuesday
9:00 Assembly and coffee cart
10:00 Whole school transition
Prep S with specialist teachers today

Wednesday
9:00 Special guest speaker
2:30 Whole school transition (children are to be picked from their new Neighbourhood)
Prep J & Prep M with specialist teachers today

Thursday
9:00 - 11:00 Prep Celebration

Action Required: Prep Celebration

To the family & friends of the Prep Neighbourhood,

You are invited to join the Preps to celebrate the end of the year and all of the wonderful learning that has taken place in the Prep Neighbourhood.

Date: Thursday 12th December (Week 10)
Time: 9 - 10:30 (approx.)
Place: Beginning in the gym and moving to the Prep Neighbourhood

Please bring a small plate of food to share, as we will have a morning tea in the Prep Courtyard after the presentations.

From
The Prep Team (Sia, Jessica, Maddy)

Expressive Dance

This week was our last Expressive Dance lesson with Susan. We are all sad to have dance finish, it has been a wonderful experience. This week the children learnt how to do the yoga pose flower as part of the warm up. We continued making shapes with our bodies this week. The children took turns being clay and a sculpture, Susan reminded the children to be gentle as they moved their partners body into place. The children then created a giant painting together (see the pictures below) by creating interesting shapes with their bodies on a wall. The children were very excited when we finished dance, I encourage you to ask your child what was their favourite part of dance.

 

Human Paintings

Dance Workshop

Today the prep children participated in the last of the three workshops held by Susan. Here are some more pictures of the children dancing.

 

Tabloid Sports

Over the past 4 weeks while the Preps for 2014 have been exploring the Neighbourhood and getting to know each other the Prep-2 Neighbourhoods have been taking part in tabloids sports on the main oval. The children have had a fantastic time getting to know children from the other neighbourhoods and learning some new skills.

Santa visits the Prep Neighbourhood

Yesterday the Prep Neighbourhood had a visit from 'Santa'. Vincent brought in Santa to the excitement of the other children. During learning agreement the children in the block construction area worked together to build a sleigh and a house, with a TV and remote for Santa.

Action Required: Student Profiles

The student autobiographies are due tomorrow, but the Prep team understand that families are busy at this time of year. If you could please have them finished and emailed to the Prep team by the end of the next week we would be very grateful.
 

Information that can be included:

Name

DOB

Family background

Languages spoken

Pets

Interests

Exciting adventures

Favourite memories 

This year 1 .....

The font is to be Tahoma, size 10 and the autobiography should be about half a page [up to 500 words]. It will be copied and pasted into the student profile template which has been especially designed by the Prep team.

 

Instrumental Music Concert 2013

Dear Parents,

                     You are invited to the “End of Year Instrumental Music Concert” to be held in the gym at Princes Hill Primary School next Friday, 29^th November, 7pm – 8:30pm.

                    Students are expected to check in with their tutors at the pre-arranged area in the gym by 6:30pm for tuning and setting up on “stage”. Please endeavour to be on time for tuning to inspire a lovely beginning to the soiree. The children will be aware of the order of events closer to the day and the program will be available at the door.

                     We look forward to a wonderful evening of musical entertainment.

 Mitchell, Mark, Sasha, Kylie, Giorgio and Luisa.                     

Week 9 Happenings

No Library this week.

Please continue to return books.

Monday
Expressive Dance (last session)

Tuesday
Assembly and coffee cart
12:30 Prep J visit Princes Hill Kinder

Thursday
12:30 Prep M visit Princes Hill Kinder 

Prep Transition Session 3: Social and Emotional Well Being

Below are links related to social and emotional well being that Rita spoke about during the Prep Transition Parent Program last week.

Preparing for school

Kimochis

Youtube: Kimochis

Term Dates

Life Education Van

Today a very excited Prep J and teacher were the final group to visit the Life Education Van. Everyone was excited to finally meet the famous Harold and to see the magical roof. Below are some pictures to show you what all the homegroups learnt about in the van.

 

Life Education Van

On Friday home-groups Prep S and Prep M visited the Life Education van (on-site outside the 3/4 neighbourhood).  The children met Harold and went on a surprise picnic.  They looked at different parts of the human body and learnt all about healthy eating. Prep J will be visiting the Life Education van on Monday.  The children have a special Life Education book that they will be working on.  The Prep M workbooks were sent home on Friday afternoon for the children to look at.  Could we please have them returned to school by Monday?

Thank you

Week 8 Happenings

All library books are to be returned this week.

No more borrowing from the main library.

Monday
Expressive Dance
Prep J meet Harold in the Life Education Van

Tuesday
Library: Prep M

Wednesday
Library: Prep S

Thursday
Final Tabloid Sports session (Prep Transition)

Dance

Today the children of the prep neighbourhood participated in Dance with Susan. Susan has held workshops at PHPS for many years. The children were thoroughly engaged and enjoyed every moment.  Please ask how they felt when they danced.

Bazaar

We had a great day at the Bazaar!

 

 

 
 
 
 
  

 

Week 7 Happenings

The  Bazaar is on this Sunday (17th November)
10am - 4pm

Monday
Library: Prep J
Expressive Dance

Tuesday
Assembly and Coffee Cart
Library: Prep M

Wednesday
Library: Prep S

Friday 
12:30 Life Education Van (Prep S)
2:30 Life Education Van (Prep M)
Prep J next week

Prep Transition Program

A small group of children will be speaking to next year's prep parents about their experiences this year and offering some advice. These children have been working with Jessica and have lines to practice for next week's transition presentation. If you have any questions please speak to Jessica.

Reminder: For the whole of November the children are to go straight to the library on Thursday mornings.

Helping my child at home. Literacy and Maths tips.

Today in the Prep Transition Parent Program Rita mentioned three helpful websites for parents. The links are below.

Literacy Tips

Maths Tips

Transition

Have you signed up to help at the Bazaar yet?

The school Bazaar is on this Sunday. It is a great day for all the family. Our class reps are still looking for people to help out on the Prep stalls. You only need to help out for an hour, the time flies and it is a great way to get to know other families in the Neighbourhood. If you can help out please sign up outside your child's homeroom. Thank you.

 

Silkworms

On Friday Miro brought in silkworm cocoons to share with Neighbourhood. Miro gave a very informative talk about the silkworm. The silkworm eats mulberry leaves make their cocoons out of silk. The children were very excited to see the cocoons so in the afternoon we watched some short videos about silkworms. Thank you Miro.