School Highlights
Year 4 Design and Technologies: Saving Tomato Town!
Toot! Toot! It’s that exciting time of year again for our Year 4 students as they embark on a fantastic project to help save Tomato Town and its beloved Munchkins!
In this adventure, our students discover that while Tomato Town has an endless supply of delicious tomatoes, the town’s only supermarket offers limited ingredients.
Last week, they gathered together for a fun taste-testing session, sampling a variety of ingredients - some sweet, some bitter - to spark their creativity.
Last week, they gathered together for a fun taste-testing session, sampling a variety of ingredients - some sweet, some bitter - to spark their creativity.
Now, the real challenge begins! Students will work in small groups to develop a healthy recipe that will help the Munchkins gain the strength they need to defeat the pesky Frog-wogglers and reclaim their town.
Stay tuned for more updates on their culinary creations and the brave battle to save Tomato Town! We can’t wait to see what nutritious and delicious recipes our Year 4 students come up with!
STATE Chess Tournament
On Monday 12 students travelled to Tyndale Christian School to participate in the STATE Chess Championships. At this tournament, the Zone winners from each Interschool tournament from around the State come together to compete. It was a great competition with lots of very talented players from around the State, and Prescott did well to come in fourth place.
It was also good for the players to practise their Sportsmanship skills, knowing that winning medals always feels great, but sportsmanship is a great life lesson. Friendships were forged across schools, wonderful sportsmanship was shown. I am so proud of this team! Mato also supplied everyone with lots of pizza at half time and ice-creams at the end! What a great way to end a fantastic tournament. This was the last tournament for our wonderful Year 6's, we wish them well in their new schools and thank them for their dedication to the chess team over the years. Well done, everyone.
Music Recital
Last week thirty-four of our talented students, performed in a school recital. Each of these students are learning an instrument at school and blessed us with repertoire they have been learning. As each child sat on the piano stool, picked up their flute or sat with their guitar, I felt butterflies in my tummy as though I was sitting with them. Yet, the student's fingers did not tremble, nor did their voices shake. Rather, each of them performed with a joy and confidence which could only come from the encouraging tutors and family members who've sat by their side. What a beautiful way to celebrate the many hours of hard work and support at both school and home.
Many of these students will extend their music journey by completing AMEB exams at school next week. I have full confidence that these students will continue to excel wherever they choose to walk on their music journeys. I thank God that I've had the blessing to see their adventure so far, and pray that He will continue to bless them every step of the way.
God bless,
Caitlin Irankunda
Prescott Playdate
The weather was perfect this morning for a special Summer themed Playdate with Prescott. The children enjoyed lots of fun activities in our beautiful nature play space. They painted sea shells, played with ice, created beach scenes, and of course enjoyed the sandpit and mud kitchen. Our final Playdate on November 29 will have a Christmas theme. We look forward to seeing you and your preschool-aged children there!
Little Giggles in the Big Library
Last week some of our friends from Little Giggles Playgroup visited PPN for their Storytime. They always love Mrs Blyde reading to them, and the opportunity to explore the all the books in the library. We can’t wait to have them back again in 2025.
Science Week Nature Play
This year's National Science Week theme is Species Survival - More than just sustainability. The theme aims to highlight the importance of science and innovation in ensuring the survival and thriving of different species in an ever-changing world.
The amazing year 6's have been running a variety of scientific activities throughout the week, including ocean themed sensory bins, nature scavenger hunts, paper making etc that are in line with the theme of sustainability.
Butterflies are such an important part to our gardens and the activity the year 6's ran in the week in the nature play space, is a way or helping and sustaining our important butterflies. Drawing inspiration from the year 6's activity we set up other stations around the nature play space that were all about butterflies. There was a reading station, with a lot of picture and information books the students could look at about butterflies, there was a butterfly scavenger hunt with a list of butterflies and a magnifying glass to help the students investigate them. Finally, there was a nature craft station where the students could use leaves and other pieces of nature to make a nature butterfly. It was a very popular place in the nature play space with students really enjoying the opportunity to investigate butterflies.
There are many ways for us to help our native butterflies, by planting native flowers and providing drinking stations in our yards. How will you help our native butterflies in your garden?
Nature Maths
The past two weeks, we have had the years 3's visit the nature play space for nature maths. Last week we took what they were learning in maths outside to map the nature play space and give directions according to the location on the grid. The students had fun mapping out their play space and locating different spaces on their maps. This week, the students took their graphs down to the nature play space where they went on a nature hunt and placed it onto the graph. The students then answered questions related to thge information they collected. We had a great time in nature maths with the year 3's.
