Kindergarten has been immersed in learning about ‘Under the Sea’. They’ve learned about dolphins, sharks and whales; made treasure maps; built an aquarium; and started to make a non-fiction big book about under the sea creatures.
In the photos, you can see the children working in their centre groups at [...]
Yesterday, a special family tour was arranged by the kindergartners, to share all the wonderful minibeast topic work that they had been doing this past month.
The room was buzzing (excuse the pun) and the children were really keen and proud to show everyone around and to talk about what they had been learning about. The [...]
Searching though some recent photos, I was drawn to this one. How great to see two buddies, sitting on a rock together in the playground, doing some nature sketching together. Their teacher, Miss Tracy said that as part of their minibeast topic, the class had been out on a nature walk with Mrs. Catherine around [...]
Watch a slideshow showing some of the highlights our fantastic Christmas Extravaganza. Our Preschool children flew on to the stage as beautiful Christmas birds, flapping their wings and dancing and singing to some Christmas action songs. Junior Kindergarten were dressed as red-nosed reindeer and thoroughly entertained the audience with their jingling bell ringing, action songs [...]
Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting’s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy. As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book. Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.
Swimming lessons for our Kindergarten, Grade One and Two children started last week with great success. The aim of the first session was to assess the children’s confidence, water skills and swimming ability. All the teachers were thoroughly impressed with the children’s efforts and are now ready to further develop the children’s skills in the [...]
Buddy Reading is a fun way to enjoy reading. Today, our 2nd Graders read together with our Kindergartners. Reading to the younger children gave the Grade 2s a real sense of pride as they modeled their good reading skills.
The Kindergartners liked being with the older children and enjoyed listening to the stories that they chose [...]
The Bounce-a-thon today was a great success with all of our Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten children bouncing to help raise money for books, playground equipment and computers. Each child bounced for one minute by themselves and their total bounces were recorded. They then had five minutes with their friends to bounce together. The children [...]
Miss Sarah’s Kindergarten class have been learning about pets and have turned their role play area into a pet shop. They wrote a list of all the animals they could think of that would make good pets. They brought in their own toys from home to fill the pet shop, and wrote name labels for [...]
Miss Rebecca’s Kindergarten class are enjoying their newly created a zoo role play area in their classroom. The children chose the idea of a zoo themselves to fit in with their current animal topic. They brainstormed ideas for what they might include and they created the maps, tickets, labels and craft animals that appear [...]
Our Early Years classes, Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten, enjoyed their sports’ Day today. It was lots of fun! It all started with some popular circle games, that had the children, jumping, hopping, skipping and skating! Following this, each class demonstrated their games skills and teamwork with their own activities. Held at the nearby Graceway [...]
Early Years ended their theme week on creative minds with a parade for mums and dads, friends and the rest of the school. There were costumes, masks, artwork and songs to share from their weeks activities. What a lot of creativity! See a slideshow of the parade. Click below to watch a movie of the [...]
The Kindergarten classes visited Kiln-Time today and each child got to decorate a pottery mug. Before they went, they designed creative patterns and pictures to paint on them and took these with them to copy. It took a great deal of concentration and skill but everyone had lots of fun. Although the [...]