Alan Viney has been provisionally appointed as the new teacher for 3/4J (or 3/4A as it will be known for the rest of the year!). Alan will start with us from the start of Term Two. 

Alan comes to Pender's Grove with experience teaching in a number of schools across Melbourne including Carlton North P.S. and the Royal Children's Hospital School.

We welcome Alan to our Pender's Grove community. 

Dubravka Zahtila has been provisionally appointed as the new teacher of Grade 2/3D from the start of Term Two. 

Dubravka has been teaching at Cairnlea Park PS (Deer Park) in the western suburbs of Melbourne for the last three years in Grades 2 and 3/4.  

We welcome Dubravka to our Pender's Grove community!  

It was an emotional assembly last Friday as we bid goodbye to Jeff and Damian both of whom are moving on to new challenges from Term 2.  We will miss them both trem

Thanks to both of them for their hard work and commitment to Pender's Grove during Term One.  Thanks too to Jeff for his work at Pender's Grove over many years and we wish him well in his new challenge as Assistant Principal at Rosanna Primary School. 

News regarding new teachers for both 23D and 34J will be posted here as soon as possible so keep checking back for updates!

Who would believe that we are at the end of the term already. A reminder to parents and carers that school finishes at 2:30pm. An end of term assembly will be held at 2:10pm and all are welcome to attend.

It was Edward Lear in writing The famous story The Owl and The Pussycat who wrote “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.” That same joy was inscribed on the faces of parents and children as they shared the richness of dance on Tuesday evening. Many had arrived early to feast on sausage sandwiches and Indian cuisine as our parents raised money for furniture around the school. By the time students were dancing it was clear that everyone was in for a good time. Laughter erupted when parents took center stage and showed their abilities as well. Thanks for those who have shared the weeks of practice and for the wonderful instruction of the Footsteps Dance Company. 

Hi All,
The Prep/1's have been working hard this term on playing and recognising rhythms. Hear them clapping, chanting and counting last week in music class!

Also, here are some more of our amazing grade 5/6 looping projects using ACID. Enjoy!

Warwick

Students across the school were actively dancing this morning as they bedded down their routines for our Family Disco coming up soon. Make sure Tuesday 25th March is blocked in for a wonderful celebration of our dancing skills. It will be a night of laughter, coordination and a and lots of fun!

Hi, I'm Warwick the classroom music teacher at Pender's Grove in 2014. Already this year we have seen lots of individual and collective musical talent on display in our classes and students have enthusiastically embraced a variety of experiments in rhythm and melody. Together with our extensive instrumental program, 2014 is shaping up as a very rich year indeed for music at Pender's Grove.

As an integral part of this, our Grade 56's have begun using Acid and Garageband programs to create digital 'looping' works. This allows students to further explore advanced musical concepts of form, dynamics and tone colour. These will be periodically uploaded to the school website so that these works can be shared with the whole school community. The results so far have been fabulous - have a listen!