It is hard to believe that the end of the 2021 school year is less than two weeks away. When I think back to the swimming carnival at the beginning of the year with all the fun, laughter and competition…
Outside of teaching, one of my favourite hobbies is running. In the warmer months, I love to get out a few afternoons a week and run for a while. Some days I’ll run shorter 5-7km tracks and other days I’ll…
On Wednesday PCS became the headquarters for a multitude of heroes from Hollywood. It was a great dress up day with so much creativity and fun bursting out of the classrooms by our students and staff. It was hard to…
Would it surprise you if I told you that two weeks ago I spent several days travelling across America seeing the sights and learning different skills of stunt riding with a Wild West show? Last week I also ambled through…
The heart of every teacher is to keep quality education going no matter what medium of delivery. PCS has enjoyed four weeks of face to face learning this term and this week teachers effortlessly switched to At Home Learning within…
Watching the news lately can be very deflating. You can sometimes forget all the blessings that surround each of us every day. A research paper published by Harvard Health Publishing in 2011 (see citation below), investigated the effects of gratitude…
Last week Kindergarten hosted the Primary assembly, presenting a play, playing a number game, explaining what they have learnt in both Science and Geography and showing their art work in a parade. Watching each of the Kindergarten students speak into…
Phoenix is my small brown brumby from Mount Kosciuszko who is currently very round from eating too much grass. Over the last two years together we have been learning to ride, changing from wild brumby to being able to have…
Most of my teaching has been in Sydney schools; within these schools a clear distinction was formed between the Infants department and the Primary department or the Primary School and the High School. PCS is one school from Kindergarten to…
At PCS, teachers encourage the students every day to learn new skills and improve their application of these skills to become the best versions of themselves. As the saying goes ‘you need to practise what you preach’, I am happy…
Over the last six weeks the PCS staff have been a feature in each newsletter. This getting to know us section has been great to learn about individuals favourite school memories, fun facts about them and their favourite verse or…
Last week was the first full week back at PCS and the Primary students took hold and ran with all the activities available to them. Within each of the different Primary classrooms from Kindergarten to Year 6 sat one or…
