Assistant Principals' Report
Dear HPS Community,
We have had another productive and fun week at HPS. Lots of great year level celebrations as well as our amazing Matsuri Day yesterday. The weather has been fairly typical for Melbourne in Spring, warm one day, cool and rainy the next. A beautiful rainbow once again shone of HPS yesterday afternoon.
We are all looking forward to a term break where hopefully our students, families and staff have time to reflect on the successes of term 3, rest and recharge ready for our last term for 2024.
Please see below some reflections from some of our students from Year 2 & 6.
Year 6 Inquiry
In Year 6 we were learning about sustainability. We had to create eco-friendly houses and include sustainable features.
We enjoyed it because we worked as a team, not with just our group but with the whole class learning from each other and helping each other. We created a floor plan to base our house off. After, we started building our houses, we used cardboard, hot glue, popsicle sticks, shredded tissue paper and we printed out images of the materials used for our houses. We used different materials to look like sustainable features. For example, shredded tissue paper to represent sheep wool insulation, plastic boxes and bottles to represent green houses and water storage. While building houses we started on a brochure that explained our houses and the features. Once we finished, we were ready for people to come and see our houses. Everyone’s houses turned out well. We’re glad we did this project!
Rachel (Room 1)
Year 2 Poetry
Isabel (Room 17)
“The poems were really calm and relaxing and fun to write. I like the haikus because they were really relaxing.”
Andre (Room 18)
“I like poetry because it felt nice and my favourite type of poetry was rhyming poetry.”
Archer (Room 25)
“I liked the acrostic poems because you got to choose a specific topic and you can write sentences about that topic.”
Olivia (Room 26)
“Haikus were fun to write and I liked illustrating the poems because you could match the words and pictures.”
Annabel (Room 26)
“I had a feeling it was hard to make things rhyme in a poem. Sometimes you couldn’t find the right rhyming word. Other poems felt easier with word choice. I found using metaphors easier.”
Duke and I will be taking two weeks Long Service Leave and will return to school on Monday 21st October 2024. I am planning a camping trip to NSW which will include a stop in at Mt Panorama for the Bathurst 1000. Duke doesn't know this yet but he won't be coming camping this time instead he will have a week with his cousins Shadow and Luna.
Thank you to everyone for a wonderful term and well done on all you have achieved. Have a great holiday everyone!
Helen Thomas & Monique Rankin
Assistant Principals
Heidelberg Primary School