Prescott Primary Northern eNewsletter

School Highlights

Year 5 Camp

Year 5 camp has come and gone for another year. A fun filled, three-day adventure full of learning new things, creating new connections with classmates and building our faith in God.

With the help of the El Shaddai staff we were able to take a swing on the Giant Swing, learn how to hit a target with an arrow, climb rocks and crates, build a raft to float on water and many more exciting activities.

Fun was had by all, and we are excited to return home and share all our stories and pictures with families and friends.

Year 6s Get a Taste of High School

Whether it's making mini pizzas in a fully equipped kitchen, getting on the tools in Design and Tech or stretching their brains in science, our Year 6 visits to Prescott College have begun.

Starting with students in 6C, these visits to our sister school in Prospect allow our students to learn and practice new skills with equipment not available to them at primary school, while also getting ready for the transition to Highschool. They also have a lot of fun!

Sounds of Nature Playdate

If you stand still in our beautiful nature play space and listen carefully, what would you hear? Birds tweeting? Leaves gently rustling in the breeze? Maybe a bee buzzing around the veggie garden? Last Friday the nature play space was filled with beautiful sounds of pre-school aged children from our community exploring and experimenting with nature sounds at our ‘Sounds of Nature’ themed Playdate with Prescott.

It was a hot morning but that did not stop the fun! There were lots of different activities and opportunities to explore and create the sounds of nature. The children created paintings of native wildlife, made music with glass jars filled with water, created their own musical shakers with objects from nature, and cooled off with water and ice play and a run under the sprinkler.

We were fortunate to have a special visitor, Phil, bring along his Yidaki and share some special music with us. There was fresh fruit and cold drinks and a special ice block treat for the kids. The morning finished up with a very special concert with everyone involved – Mr Borresen joined in with his ukulele, Phil with his Yidaki and all the children with the shakers that they had made.

We had a wonderful time sharing our amazing nature play space with our community and look forward to doing it all again next term.

Nature Play Treasure

One of our favourite family activities is to go for a walk and collect beautiful and interesting treasures. When we decide to bring them home, we use our treasures in lots of different ways. We can use them in play, in a nature table display at our house, or we make a craft out of our finds.

This weeks craft was inspired by one of our family walks over the weekend. We went up to Mount Crawford to enjoy the glorious weather and found a large amount of pinecones. The foraged pinecones turned into all sorts of creatures and crafts at PPN. Some pinecones were used in a mud kitchen, some were turned into colourful wool creations, and some were made into pinecone creatures.

To make pinecone pals, you need pinecones, foraged natural items and clay. Simply use pieces of clay to stick the foraged pieces to the pinecone. The best part about this craft, is that it was very cheap, with the only cost being the clay. The rest of the items were collected in nature or reused from other crafts. What creatures can you make using the items collected from your family walks?