Doughnut Day

While the weather wasn’t kind to us last Friday (leading to the Lower Primary Sports Day being postponed), the bakery certainly was! Thanks to the Prescott Community team, our students and staff enjoyed house-colour themed doughnuts and raised more than $400 to continue to make our school great. Many classes also took the opportunity to eat and share some fun with their buddy classes.

Reconciliation Rocks

In follow up to Reconciliation Week, our Year 1 students applied what they’d learned about indigenous art and symbols to create their own ''reconciliation rocks'. Their pieces displayed amazing creativity and care, and we think they are worth showing off here in the newsletter and on display at home.

What jumps, balances and spins at least once a week? The answer: every student at PPN. For the next four weeks, PPN is taking part in a whole-school gymnastics program through the support of Sport Schools.

Students will be exploring some of the basic gymnastic skills including balancing, jumping, rotation and the use of hand apparatus. Needless to say, the students are thoroughly enjoying this.

We popped over to the church hall to see 2C in action this morning. You can see some of their photos below.

Pinecone creatures

After a visit to the forest, my family and I collected some pinecones when walking through the trees. We loved looking at the different shapes, sizes and textures of the pinecones. That inspired the activity for our Nature Play Space this week. Using natural resources such as air-dry clay, gumnuts, leaves and other bits and pieces we have collected, the students at PPN transformed their pinecones into pinecone creatures. They moulded the air-dry clay into different shapes to represent different creatures such as birds, owls and other creations. The students loved coming up with their own unique creation, with no two creations the same.

Have you tried using air dry clay to make nature creatures with your family?

Nature Maths

It was our last Nature Maths session with the Year 1's this Tuesday. It has been fun going down to the Nature Play space where we can use our bodies, and natural items to learn new mathematical concepts. This week, we discussed different types of lines - horizontal, vertical, and parallel. We identified them in our playground, our Nature Play Space and used gathered sticks to make horizontal and vertical lines on a t shirt outline to create a pattern. Once we had finished, we then used our sticks to make a huge horizontal straight line across the Nature Play Space. It has been fun learning in Nature.