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

All the Preps went on a fantastic excursion to SCIENCEWORKS! As part of our ‘On The Move’ topic, we went along to further our understanding of: Forces, such as push and pull Gravity Materials Toys, and how they move. We enjoyed a special presentation of ‘The Toys & Forces Show’, presented by a very funny...Read More

During Education week, we held our annual Open Morning and Open Evening for prospective families in 2019 and beyond. All teachers were on board during the evening, presenting and talking to parents about all that Belle Vue has to offer. We spoke about the many wonderful programs in place at our school, and we hope to welcome...Read More

Ms Woodhouse, Mr Robinson and some very lucky Belle Vue students went to visit the children and staff at Manningham Rd Early Learning Centre. We ran a music session with the kinder students and talked to them about what school will be like next year. We took some very excited junior school students who used...Read More

This term’s integrated topic is “Watch It Grow”. The Students are learning about living things and what they need to survive and grow. The 1/2 students have planted their seeds and are keen to look after them and watch them grow! We recorded the planting process in our “Watch It Grow” journals. We are also checkinig them regularly and...Read More

During week 3 our Prep students were learning all about measuring capacity! We discussed terms such as ‘full’, ’empty’ and ‘half empty’ and practiced measuring the capacity of a range of containers. We predicted the capacity of containers, ordering them from least to most, then checked to see if we were right! We used water,...Read More

As part of the grade 1/2 integrated unit ‘Watch it Grow’ students examined a range of different seeds. They learnt that seeds have all of the information required to grow an adult plant and that seeds can vary in terms of shape, size, colour and even location on a plant. For this activity students had...Read More

At Belle Vue Primary School we use the Words Their Way program to teach spelling rules and patterns. Students are all given an initial spelling assessment which is then used to separate the student into spelling groups which target their specific learning needs. In the grade 1/2 area students are provided with words each fortnight,...Read More

Welcome back to term 2! We are now back into the swing of term in the Italian classroom. All the grades are busy learning about different elements  of the Italian language. Preps are learning to count 1-10 and recognising Italian numbers in their written form. Grade 1/2 are learning words for ‘lo sport’ (sports), did...Read More