Learning in new places.

Learning in new places.

The year Rec / 1 Dragon’s class take their learning to new and creative spaces at FGPS. Proving that learning can be done in and out of the classroom, the students used different parts of our school to inspire their creative writing and find Math in unlikely...
NAIDOC WEEK – ‘FOR OUR ELDERS’

NAIDOC WEEK – ‘FOR OUR ELDERS’

This term we were lucky to be able to acknowledge and celebrate our Aboriginal peoples and their culture with both Reconciliation and NAIDOC week this year as it usually falls in the school holidays. NAIDOC week – ‘FOR OUR ELDERS’ Conversations...
Making Scrubs with the Sea Turtles

Making Scrubs with the Sea Turtles

Teamwork makes dream work when we step into the workspace of the year 2/3 Sea Turtles. Students were busy making sweet gift jars for Mother’s Day, filled with fragrant lemon and coconut sugar scrub, however there was more to this activity than meets the eye....
Hand-y work with buddies

Hand-y work with buddies

Room 6 Dragons worked alongside their Room 8 & 9 buddies last week to create some very “hands-on” clay pieces for Mother’s Day.      The older buddies rolled the clay and helped their younger buddy class carefully trace and cut their hands which...
Tastes of Japan

Tastes of Japan

FGPS Stephanie Alexander Kitchen was abuzz with energy, sizzling woks, fresh fragrant herbs, and the sounds of skillful chopping, as students took to the kitchen for Japanese Cultural studies.        This week’s creation of Chicken Gyoza and Japanese fried rice...