Pender's Grove Primary - Our School

Have a wonderful break...

16/9/2016

What a terrific term we have had! We will see you all back ready for a busy Term 4 on Monday October 3rd.

A reminder that our Foundation Transition program starts early next term so please contact us as soon as possible if you are planning on enrolling with us for 2017 as we still have places available.

Art Show...sneak peek...shhhhhhh!

13/9/2016

See below for a sneak peak of students' work for our PGPS 2016 Art Show. 18th October is our opening night so please try to come along if you can!

We would love to see people dress up on the night. The theme will be: water or under the sea!

For more information navigate to:
http://www.pendersgroveps.vic.edu.au/arts-festival.html

Grade 5/6 Fraction Art

12/9/2016

Here is some fraction art we have been doing in 5/6!! We explored fractions as smaller, equal parts of a whole, in this case, shape. Students experimented with cutting up kinder squares and circles to make pictures and label the fractions they used.

Amy and 5/6A

Thanks for another great working bee!

10/9/2016

A hardy group of parents, grandparents, students and staff braved the threatening rain today to do some more fantastic work in our playground.

We can't wait to see the students faces on Monday when they see our fantastic new sandpit located next to our F/1 classrooms. We also did some much needed preparation in our veggie path and also lots of weeding and pruning in our indigenous garden. All of these areas are now looking much refreshed and in some cases ready for brand new planting! As well as that there was lots of weeding, sweeping and tidying of other playground areas.

Thanks to everyone who came along to help today - as always we literally could not do it without you! Thanks also to our Community Events Committee who were on hand working hard on the BBQ to keep us all fed during the day!

Book Week 2016: Australia - Story Country

26/8/2016

Monday 22nd August: Darebin Library Visit
Staff from the Darebin library were at the school to discuss with classes the criteria and process for books receiving awards. Thanks to Fiona (PGPS parent and also from Darebin library) for organising this.

Stories around the School:
This year we conducted a number of short picture book readings staged around the school at recess and lunchtime across the week.. As the theme for Book Week this year wass Australia: Story Country, chosen books were written by Australian authors.

Friday 26th August: Book Character Dress Up Day
Students dressed up as characters from books by Australian authors or as Australian authors. We had a terrific parade with lots of parents and carers watching on in the hall.

Visitors from Hanoi

19/8/2016

We were delighted on Monday this week to host a visit by teachers and Assistant Principals from Doan Thi Diem Primary School in Hanoi, Vietnam. The teachers were very impressed with our students, staff and the school. Thanks to our fantastic senior student ambassadors who greeted them and helped to show them around the school. We were honoured to be presented with their school emblem which is on display on our front office counter.

Fitzroy Stars Clinics

19/8/2016

As part of the ongoing celebration of NAIDOC Week on Tuesday 16th we hosted members of the Fitzroy Stars Football and Netball clubs, who will ran Football and Netball clinics with students from years 3 to 6. Also on the day the Victorian Aboriginal Healthy Lifestyle Team worked with our F-2 students playing indigenous games in the hall. It was a fantastic morning and our students had a tremendous time. It was also great that the weather was kind to us and it was the perfect day to be outdoors! Thanks to Ralph, our KESO, for organising the event and also to all the players for coming along and sharing their skills with us.

Basketball Round Robin

12/8/2016

Congratulations to our Grade Six students that went along to the Basketball Round Robin earlier this week. The teams did not end up in the finals on the day but both the girls and boys teams had wins during the day that they were really happy with. Well done to them all for a great day representing Pender’s Grove. In addition to our staff that helped organise and went on the day, thanks also to Andrew for giving up his own time over the last few weeks to come in and train the teams during lunchtimes.

Hands On Science!

3/8/2016

Yesterday our Year 3-6 students participated in science activities as part of the immersion for their Term 3 science inquiry unit. Our Grade 3-4s worked on tasks relating to plant life and our Grade 5-6s participated in activities focussing on animal life. Our students will now begin their thinking about a focus for their own inquiry to answer a question that they have about science.

A lovely day for some gardening...

25/7/2016

It was lovely last week to have our school gardens open at lunchtime and for students to have an additional space to participate in some quiet activities.

Thanks to Alan and Saskia for organising and supervising this. We are all keen for this to be an ongoing occurrence so our gardens will be open for quiet play and some much needed weeding each week during at least one lunchtime.