This year’s State Schools Spectacular, ‘With the Beat’, is fast approaching! Belle Vue senior choir students have been practising hard at home and at school. Recently, we headed to the Town Hall in the city for the first ‘mass choir’ rehearsal, with all of the other primary school choirs. It was very exciting...Read More
Our lovely preps have reached 100 Days of School! We enjoyed a special assembly on Friday celebrating all the learning and hard work they have been doing in their first 100 Days! We started our assembly by singing some songs for everyone! Then each student did a speech on what they have learnt and enjoyed...Read More
A snapshot of what all grades have been upto in term 3 so far – Prep – Our prep students have been busy learning colours – they are extending on their prior learning of colours by attempting to learn the meaning of other colours not previously explored. This includes recognising the colours visually, orally and in written form....Read More
In grade 1/2 students have been learning all about money. At the moment they have been exploring the connection between dollars and cents, and thinking about the change they will receive for purchasing different items. For this activity students needed to demonstrate their understanding of how many cents make up one dollar. They used coins to try and...Read More
Grade 3/4 students completed an explanation text as part of the term’s integrated topic. Students learned about the relationship between the sun, moon and earth. This helped them to explain seasons, shadows, night and day. They used a range of technical vocabulary including axis, tilt, rotation, revolve, equinox and solstice. The photos show some of the resulting...Read More
With term 2 drawing to a close, here is what all the grades have been up to in the Italian classroom. Preps have been learning about numbers and body parts. We have learnt about the story of Pinocchio, been memorising nouns for body parts and been singing along to ‘La Canzone di Geppetto’ (Geppetto’s song)...Read More
2018 has been an excellent year for morning Run Club at Belle Vue PS. Student participation from Prep to Grade 6 has been impressive with 30 plus students becoming a regular morning occurrence. Regular physical activity is extremely important for maintaining both our physical and mental health and Run Club provides students with an additional...Read More
Over the past two weeks, grade one and two students have been learning all about multiplication. They all understand that multiplication is a repetition of equal sized groups, and that these groups can be organised in different ways. For this activity, students were given a magic number and had to investigate how many different multiplication equations they...Read More
Grade 1 & 2 are learning all about things which grow this term. As part of this unit, students planted sunflower seeds and have been observing their changes closely. Last week we decided to replant the seeds into our garden beds because they were getting too big for their seedling trays. Here you can see some...Read More
