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Storytime At Prescott
How Great the Father’s LOVE for US, was the focus of our story time this week with our young families visiting from Little Giggles playgroup. We enjoyed making “stain glass” hearts, building trucks and roadways and playing puppets. Ryan and Lucas took the opportunity to share their stories which they wrote and illustrated with Mrs Vice’s Creative Writing group, alongside the animal puppets that came to life to retell the narrative.
While sipping hot chocolate and enjoying a biscuit or two, our parents and grandparents had a lovely opportunity to chat, engage with other adults, do their own craft, and experience what life at PPN is like among our lovely Year 6 students. Mrs Blyde finished the morning with a meaningful story of how God’s love is so big, and yet when it spills out for the whole world to receive, there’s still so much to go around for everyone.
Nature Play
PPN students embrace play with creativity and imagination, not to mention manners and a gentle approach to sharing that occurs habitually each week. Coming back to nature and the God given gifts He has blessed us with, is a treat not to miss out on – how about spending some time with your little people this long weekend to appreciate the natural world around us given by the Maker of heaven and Earth.
Samuel was a prophet. A prophet was simply a messenger delivering God’s message to His people. Sometimes good messages and sometimes not so good. But the Lord always gave His people many chances to choose to do the right thing. Samuel is well known for serving God during the time God’s people chose to appoint a king to lead them. He always willingly shared God’s wisdom and council and was a well trusted, well respected leader. But Samuel’s great journey didn’t begin with nobility, titles, respect or even recognition. Samuel himself was an answer to prayer. Specifically, the prayer of his mother, who poured her heart out to God asking for a son. She promised the Lord that if He gave her a son, that she’d teach him in the ways of the Lord and he would serve God all the days of his life.
Faithfully, Samuel fulfilled his mothers promise, all the days of his life. When he was a young boy, His mother sent him to the temple to learn under the guidance of the High Priest, Eli. Samuel’s origin story becomes overwhelmingly relevant to our students when they hear of Samuel’s age when God first called upon him, speaking directly to him in the dead of night, sharing a message for his people. Samuel wasn’t yet old and wise, nor was he well educated or a seasoned priest. Samuel was still just a child. And God, the creator of our universe and most powerful being in all of existence, saw fit, a child, to be His messenger. Samuels career as a prophet began there, to what we can best guess was 12 years old. God doesn’t need the old, wise, experienced. The only thing Samuel had to offer, was his willingness to listen. God spoke his name and Samuel responded “Speak, for your servant hears you.”
Our students cling to the promise that there is no barrier to entry for God. His willingness to be a part of our lives never flickers, fades or dulls. He only waits for our willingness, and our listening ears.
New Resource Available
Do you need a little extra help nurturing the young people in your life?
Parenting, fostering, grandparenting, and aunty and uncle-ing can be one of the most rewarding tasks we will ever undertake in our lives. Yet it can also be challenging, exhausting, and frustrating - as it can be the thing for which we feel the least prepared.
The parenting booklet below, produced by the Australian Childhood Foundation, is filled with ideas, strategies, and activities you might find useful as you seek to find calm and clarity in your parenting.
Pupil Free Day & Public Holiday
Please remember that this Friday 6th June, is a Pupil Free Day and Monday 9th June is a Public Holiday.
Wearing scarves and beanies
We are in the change of season, and the weather is cooling down. During cold mornings in Terms 2 and 3, students can wear beanies before school and until 9 am. Once students enter our warm classrooms, they will be asked to take off their beanies and keep them in their school bags. Please ensure that beanies are plain, with no logos or designs, and they are in the school colours of navy blue, royal blue, black, maroon, red or white.Please note that PPN Uniform Scarves are available from the uniform shop. Non uniform scarves should not be worn with the Winter uniform.
ICAS - Year 3-6 families
If your child has qualified for ICAS this year, you would have received an invitation by email last Friday afternoon. They need to be achieving in the top 25% of students for at least one subject to get an invitation. If you think they should have an invitation but have not received an email, please check your junk email box before contacting Julie Vice at: julievice@ppn.sa.edu.au for further information.
Enrolments 2026
2026 Foundations are almost full so any siblings need to be registered as soon as possible. There are limited spots in some other grades, so please get your registrations of interest in quickly or risk missing out.
