Young Leaders Day

It’s not often students get to meet an AFLW player, an award-winning author, breakfast radio presenters and Australia’s most famous life-guard in one day, but that’s exactly what our four Student Leaders were able to do last Friday.

As part of the National Young Leaders Day program, Rudra, Savya, Harleen and Sienna spent the day at the Adelaide Convention Centre being inspired by and learning from Australian’s that have achieved great success. But the lessons weren’t about how to be successful – but rather, how to lead successfully so others can experience a better life inside and outside of school.

The presenters on the day included:

- Anthony ‘Harries’ Carrol, life saver and star of Bondi Rescue

- Gemma Houghton, Port Power AFLW player

- Jodie Oddy and Andrew Hayes, Nova 919 Breakfast radio presenters

- Nathan Luff, author of the Nerd Herd series

If you see them around the school you might like to ask them who their favourite presenter was.

Sno-Cones for Harmony Day

We don’t really need an excuse for sno-cones, but on Tuesday we took the opportunity to celebrate Harmony Day and raise money to support the school in the Philippines some of our teachers will be visiting and serving in during the upcoming school holidays. Thank you PPN Community for your support!

Harmony in Nature Play

Happy Harmony week! We are so fortunate to have so many amazing cultures represented at our school with each beautiful and vibrant culture coming together to represent our own school culture at PPN. It is a celebration of harmony, peace, love, acceptance and appreciation for everyone.

This week we had words used to describe harmony week written and decorated onto rocks and hid around the playground for students to find. As the bell rang, I heard a flurry of feet and saw students scurry all over the playground, looking under rocks, in tree forks, under bushes, in the sandpit and everywhere to find the hidden rocks. Squeals of glee and smiles from delighted faces appeared as they came and showed me their collection of harmony rocks. The students were encouraged to collect some, and then hide the rest so others got the chance to find them too.

Other students decided to create their own messages of harmony, which was a very popular task. They wrote messages of love, kindness and hope onto the rock, decorated them beautifully, and told me they are going to hide them in their local parks and playgrounds so others can share in the harmony message. How will you be remembering harmony week as a family this week? 

Foundation Living and Non-Living Workshop 

The beauty of having such a wonderful nature play space, is taking our learning outside to enjoy the beautiful outdoors. The Foundation classes had that chance today to come and participate in a nature play workshop. In science, they have been learning about living and non-living things, which was the inspiration for our workshop. The students got to make a rock creature using paint sticks, create a habitat and food for their creature using natural resources supplied and found on the ground near the Nature Play Space, and they used their detective skills to find any living creatures in and around the play space using their magnifying glass with the help of a poster to identify some of our local creatures.

The students were so engaged, painting rock creatures, and building some incredible habitats for the animals. They loved searching for living things in the playground, scurrying around the sandpit and garden beds to follow the ants and discovering a bush full of very interesting bugs. It was wonderful learning outside with the Foundations this week!