Prescott Primary Northern eNewsletter

School Highlights

Gold and Bronze at Interschool Chess!

It was an exciting day on Monday for our Chess Team, who travelled to Tyndale Christian School to play in the North-Eastern Interschool Tournament. Due to a smaller amount of Primary School teams entering this term, our team of 12 was split into two, ‘Prescott Gold’ and ‘Prescott White’. This meant they (in some rounds) had to play against each other! They also had to play against some very big High School students.

At the end of the day, to our excitement, Prescott Gold came out on top of the nine teams that entered (High School teams as well) and our Prescott White team came third in the Primary School competition. Congratulations to all players, this was such a nice way to complete Chess Club for this year. Well done especially to Shivadhya as it was her first tournament, and she finished in first place out of all the girls competing. Top qualifiers will be chosen to play in the State Tournament in October. Chess Club will begin again in Term One of next year. Well done, team.

Mrs Vice

Year 5 E-Day

Over the past term, our Year 5 students have embarked on an exciting journey in Design and Technology and HASS. Students created their own businesses by planning, budgeting, designing, and advertising their products to the whole school.

The hard work of our Year 5 students was celebrated on E-Day, where they showcased their creations to the whole school. The event was a big hit, with many products selling out quickly and lots of happy customers.

Congratulations to our young entrepreneurs for their outstanding efforts and achievements! Your creativity and dedication have truly shone through, making E-Day a memorable experience for all.

Prescott Playdate

Spring has sprung, and on Monday our friends from Little Giggles Playgroup as well as other little ones from our wider school community enjoyed a fun morning of spring-themed nature play in the glorious sunshine at our Playdate with Prescott. Our pre-school aged friends created beautiful paintings and butterfly crafts, splashed a dug in our sand and water play space and ‘cooked’ up a storm in the mud kitchen. There were hot drinks for the parents to enjoy while they mingled, as well as fresh fruit for the children to enjoy while they read some books in the sunshine. A lovely morning together concluded with a special singing time with Mr Fabello and his guitar.

We look forward to our next Playdate with Prescott celebrating Summer on October 30th.

Springtime Flowers

Spring is such a beautiful time of year. There are so many beautiful blooming flowers, buzzing bees and sunny days. This week, we embraced the theme of spring and brought some beautiful blooms into the playground. We had a flower stand filled with different kinds of blooms for the students to make flower arrangements with, use in their flower soup or other areas in their play. Role play is an important part of a child’s development, involving themselves in pretend play of real places and events to role play that part of life.

Today, the children took our flower shop and made it into an amazing role play, including their own elements to make it come to life. Students lined up at the shop, others were arranging flowers to sell, while others spread the word there was a flower shop in the playground. Other students used the flowers in their own play, making a small forest in the sand pit and others used them in the water play to make flower soup. It was wonderful to see how simple additions to the nature play space, can bring play to life. Will you set up a flower shop role play for your family to use at your house this week?