Port Noarlunga Primary School

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Latest news from Port Noarlunga Primary. Our school newsletter is presented here as a live rolling blog.
Latest information, Class Stories, sports results, student achievements, and Principal Updates are all shared here.

Term 1 Outdoor Education

Term 1 Outdoor Education

BY YEAR 5/6 STUDENTS in MRS CLARK'S CLASS (19-1) Year 5 Outdoor Education by Year 5 student Eva Cooking, Rope tying, adventures, and water activities, sounds like fun right? Well that’s how much fun Outdoor Education was! Outdoor Education is an experience that was...

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Active Education Excursion to Douglas Scrub

Active Education Excursion to Douglas Scrub

Year 4/5 Gotley/Davoren On Monday 14 September the students from Mrs Gotley’s and Jan’s class, along with Ms Sander’s class, travelled to McLaren Flat, where they participated in an outdoor learning day facilitated by staff from Active Education at the Douglas Scrub...

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Team Ehlers Tent Night

Team Ehlers Tent Night

Who: Team Ehlers and their families What: We pitched our tents on the oval and camped at school for a night. When: Friday night, October 18th after having to cancel our initial date in Term 1 due to a storm. Where: We all made a tent village between our classroom and...

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Daily 5 Literacy Framework

Daily 5 Literacy Framework

By Desma McMillan - Year 3/4 Teacher Why did I begin using the Daily 5 Literacy Framework? Two years ago, I participated in some training and development around the use of the Daily 5 literacy framework. I was surprised to see students from reception through to year 7...

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Learning with The Cross Kids

Learning with The Cross Kids

By Sarah Cross — Year 1/2 Teacher Last term we had a wonderful time navigating our way around information texts, researching about common Australian animals, marine life and zoo animals. We began by discovering that an information text was not like a story, but that...

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Planting a coastal habitat

Planting a coastal habitat

By Mr. Letcher — History Teacher As part of our Geography lessons, Miss Alana and Miss Courtney’s classes have been learning about what creatures need in their habitats. We have created a coastal habitat using plants that would naturally occur in the Port Noarlunga...

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How technology is helping our science in year 3/4

How technology is helping our science in year 3/4

By Mrs. Thompson & Miss Mercer's 3/4 Class This term for science in Mrs. Thompson and Miss Mercer’s year 3/4 class we are focusing on life and earth. One thing we have been incorporating into our science lessons is technology. We have been using iPads to watch...

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Principal’s Update — September 2019

Principal’s Update — September 2019

Dear all,This is my first blog post here and I admit I’m a little embarrassed that it has taken me so long.We continue to be extremely busy here and it doesn’t look like slowing down for a while.I’d like to provide an update on some things that have been happening...

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Why learn French?

Why learn French?

By KAREN THORBURN - Teacher of French Why learn French? I don’t think a week goes by without me being asked this question. To my knowledge, French was selected by the school community as the new language for PNPS approximately 8 years ago and was introduced by Madame...

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