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Silver Medals in the Interschool Chess Tournament

On Monday, 15 qualifying students from our chess club participated in an Interschool chess tournament at Tyndale Christian School. It was a great competition with ten schools participating. It has been a long time since the competition has been this big! We were in first place for most of the day, but in a nail-biting finish, were respectfully defeated at the end by King’s Baptist School! Silver medals still felt very good for our top four players. Congratulations to Neil for being our top player, and 5^th overall (even including the High School students). Isabella, is also to be congratulated, taking out the top girl player trophy for the third tournament in a row!

Well done team, especially our new players, Levi, Maahir and Zeki who participated in their first tournament. It is always a wonderful experience to meet many other students from different schools that play chess. We congratulate Kings for taking top place this time. We look forward to our next challenge, which will be the STATE tournament in Week three of next term.

Mrs. Vice

Year 1 Royal Adelaide Show Junior Art, Craft & Textiles Competition

During Term 1, the Year 1 students enjoyed creating various pieces of art work to enter the Junior Art, Craft & Design competition at the Royal Adelaide Show. They include drawings of mandalas, self-portraits / funny faces, imaginary birds and paintings of imaginary tree houses and wonderful places, using warm and cool colours. Then during Term 2 the students experimented with textiles using weaving and different sewing techniques to create ‘God’s Eyes’ and a personalised pencil case.

Each student got to enter their favourite piece of artwork into the show from the semester. On the Friday afternoon proceeding the show Mrs Watson attended the Exhibitions Grand Opening. She was so excited to see all the student’s artworks on display surrounded by artwork from students from other Adelaide schools. All the students received a participation certificate, and nine students were recognized for their outstanding artwork, receiving a Merit Certificate in the Art, Craft & Design section, and seven students received either a First, Second or Third placing ribbon for their texiles work. Many of the students were then excited to attend the show and see their work on display.

As you know the Royal Adelaide Show concluded a few weeks back and the children have been eagerly awaiting to get their entries back and look at the certificates, medals and ribbons they received.

Congratulations to all the Year 1 students, we are so proud of you all.

Spring Playdate with Prescott

Earlier this week we hosted another Playdate with Prescott in our nature play space to celebrate the start of spring. Our friends from Little Giggles Playgroup as well as our wider PPN community enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning of nature play, crafts, singing, and snacks. With some assistance from our special Year 5 helpers the children made butterfly paintings with their handprints, planted seeds to take home and nurture, and created flower sticks and fishing rods from sticks, wool, feathers, and flowers. As always there was yummy fruit and hot drinks, and a special song time to finish the morning. We look forward to seeing our Playdate with Prescott friends again next term to celebrate Summer!

Spring has Sprung at PPN

Spring has well and truly sprung at PPN. Our trees are in full bloom, with blossoms lining the edge of our walkways. Our native trees and shrubs in the Nature Playground are providing a beautiful backdrop for the creative and imaginative play that happens during recess and lunchtime. This week, creativity was exploding with the flowers that were hidden throughout the Nature Play for our students to find.