Meet Dribble: Our New Pet Turtle!

Hey there, everyone! I’m Dribble, the newest addition to the Year 4 team. You might recognise me from our class novel, “Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing”. My owner, Peter, is the main character in the story. He won me at his friend’s 9th birthday party.

I am super excited to work alongside the Year 4’s. I’m ready to explore, learn, and have a shell of a time with all my fantastic classmates.

Year 1 Bugs N Slugs

We had an insect invasion today at PPN – but it’s all under control.

Our Year 1 students have been learning about insects this term and the Bugs ‘N Slugs experience allowed them to get hands-on with a range of creepy crawlies. The Church Hall was filled with bugs including spiders, beetles, snails and stick insects that students could investigate, and in some cases, hold.

Nature Maths  

In Nature maths this week, we had our foundation students back in the Nature Play space practising their counting skills. The students worked in small groups to count individual leaves and petals as they pulled them off the flowers and stems. They then counted each leaf as they placed it into the leaf soup they were creating. Each group made a lovely concotion of many kinds of leaves, with type of leaf showing a different amount.

It was fun practising our counting in a different way. The students were very engaged and loved creating leaf soup while also practising some important skills.

Harmony Week

Harmony Week is a time to celebrate Australia's diversity, bringing together Australians from all different backgrounds. We have an amazingly diverse school community here at PPN, and this week we celebrated that by decorating some hands that represent who we are and our cultural background, and making a small harmony garden in the Nature Play Space.

The students used watercolours pens and created some beautiful designs, or drew something that represented them onto a hand cut out of water colour paper. It was a beautiful collection of colour and diversity in the nature play space once the students have finished creating their hands.  

How have you and your family celebrated Harmony Week?