A key principle of Montessori learning is ‘going out’ and obtaining real world experiences to link learning. We aim to find authentic ways to provide these opportunities to enhance the student’s experiences in the classroom. Botany Our Cultural Studies topic has centered around Botany this term with investigations of the function of plants and ways […]
The children in our classroom have been working through our Montessori number sequence with great enthusiasm. We have been focusing closely on place value. The younger children in our cycle have been using our concrete materials to compose, decompose, represent and order numbers from 0-1000. Children have also spent time making quantities using our Mortensen […]
Today the Cycle 1 and 2 children enjoyed a magnificent performance by the Bumble Bee Brass Band. The performance was thoroughly enjoyed by the children who sung, clapped and danced along to the wonderful tunes. We thank the Bumble Bee Brass Band for visiting us and putting on such a show. Mia, Gemma […]
We have had a great start to term two. For Cultural Studies we are focusing on Mapping and Geography. To begin our unit we asked the children what they wanted to learn about in regards to the world. They sure did have some interesting questions such as: ‘Why is Darwin called Darwin?’ ‘What plants grew […]
Our school is offering students the opportunity to enter the Oliphant Science Awards. Students may enter work in one of 9 different categories: Computer Programming & Robotics Models & Inventions Posters Crystal Investigation Multimedia Science writing Games Photography Scientific Inquiry Most categories allow for group entries (2 or 3 students) as well as individual entries. […]
Welcome to Term 2. We are excited about our plans for the term. Our Cultural Studies topic focusses on Botany and will involve an excursion to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens as well experiments and investigations at school. We launched this topic with a visit from Professor Flint this week where he discussed Climate Change with […]
Hi and welcome to Term 2. This term will see us focussing on organisation. The children have been asked to think about what goals they would like to set in the classroom and at home and what steps they can take to help them achieve their goals. We will be talking about how our goals […]
During weeks 10-11 our Cycle 2 classrooms participated in 5 daily tennis lessons at our local tennis courts with Tennis coach Ray. The children showed great enthusiasm towards our lessons and enjoyed refining their skills throughout the week.
This term the middle school students have been engaging in a Street Art unit for Creative Expression. Students have gained knowledge and skills in a variety of street art types such as, stickers, stencils, guerrilla art, yarn bombing, graffiti and murals. As a part of the unit students researched different street artists, their methods and […]
We have had a very busy term learning new routines and classroom expectations. The children have shown great enthusiasm and enjoyment in all learning tasks they have been presented with. Below are just some of the things we have been doing. This term our focus for Cultural Studies has been History. We have joined Karen’s […]