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‘DREAM CAR’ Art Contest with Room 6

As part of our Design and Technology lessons, the Year 1 students have entered the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. This is global contest inspiring creative expression and imagination in children, and is a chance for tomorrow’s engineers and designers… Continue Reading →

A Step Back in Time with Room 6

‘EXPLORING PAST & PRESENT FAMILY LIFE’ with Room 6 In History our Year 1 students are learning about the similarities and differences in family life while exploring the links and changes that occur over time through a range of engaging… Continue Reading →

What’s happening in Greek lessons this term

This term with all our Greek LOTE classes we are exploring Greek cultural celebrations, festivals, food and dance. The students are recognising words that reflect aspects of culture and traditions during celebrations. We are looking at various traditional dances from mainland Greece… Continue Reading →

Swimming poetry by Room 24

This week we went to the Aquatic Centre for swimming lessons. We had a great time learning about how to be safe in the water. In class we have been reading and writing poems. Here are some poems about swimming… Continue Reading →

Maths Learning in Room 23

In Room 23 we have been learning different strategies to solve multiplication and division problems. This week we had the following problem: Rose – I like to use the bar model because it is a visual tool. If you have… Continue Reading →

Year 2 Geography – Room 15

In Geography, Room 15 have been exploring their connection to places. The students began by identifying where Australia sits in the world, we learnt the names of all the continents and where they are found on a world map. We… Continue Reading →

Italian

Towards the end of Term 1, and the start of Term 2, the Year 6/7 classes have been working on the origins of Carnevale. They have also been using the stock characters of Commedia dell’ Arte to do conversation pieces,… Continue Reading →

Room 14 Autumn Art and Detailed Writing

In Room 14, our Year 2’s have been learning about the calendar and how the environment changes as the seasons change. We collected and admired a range of leaves in various vibrant autumn colours. We then created beautiful artwork using… Continue Reading →

Classroom Music News

Each class comes over to the music room for a one hour lesson each week. With the younger year levels, the focus is on music appreciation and learning to love music. We do a lot of movement activities exploring different… Continue Reading →

‘Wendy’ by Gus Gordon with Room 11

During the past few weeks, the Year 1 children from Room 11 have been exploring the text ‘Wendy’ by Gus Gordon with a focus on adding details to our writing and expanding our vocabulary. Wendy is a remarkable chicken who leaves her… Continue Reading →

Thunderstorm Writing and Art with Room 12

Due to the massive storm we had in Adelaide on Wednesday night the learners in Room 12 decided we should write one or two sentences describing what it was like. We also created some art pieces using photos taken in… Continue Reading →

Making Bees Wax Wraps with KESAB

This week the Year 2 classes in the Peppertree Building participated in a Bees Wax Wrap Workshop with Jo from KESAB. Students created their practical and eco-friendly food wraps by first making personalised nature and food inspired designs on fabric squares, then brushing with… Continue Reading →

Beautiful artwork celebrates wildlife conservation

During Term 3, the Year 4 students from Room 21 took part in an art competition about endangered species. The Orang-Artan Competition tasked students to research an endangered species and create an artwork in order to raise awareness. Students from… Continue Reading →

Room 20 and “The Great Rhino Inquiry” at Monarto Zoo

In Room 20 this term we have been learning about sustainability. As a part of this unit of work, we have been inquiring into sustainable environments. We have been researching the critically endangered white rhino, and we were sad to… Continue Reading →

‘Fox’ by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks with Room 12

In Room 12 the Year 1 students have truly enjoyed exploring ‘Fox’ as our mentor text this term. We decided to do a quick write selling this book to others.  Here is a couple of our pieces of writing along… Continue Reading →

A snapshot of PE at UPS

We have been busy in PE across all year levels this term! We recently started our ‘Invasion’ games unit (Basketball, netball, soccer, hockey, footy) with classes in Years 3-7. This is a fan favourite as so many students play club… Continue Reading →

Room 7 Inquiry Learning Assembly

The children in Room 7 have been very busy preparing to host assembly and it has been an exciting time as they haven’t experienced many assemblies before. Their assembly was a culmination of all their work and they have done… Continue Reading →

Understanding spelling and how it is taught

This article from Associate Professor Misty Adoniou provides an excellent snapshot of the theory that underpins our approach to teaching spelling at UPS. You can read more about our work in spelling in this previous blog post. English spelling has… Continue Reading →

Exciting guests visit EALD learners

At UPS, many of our students enjoy the opportunity to be involved in an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) program with a focus on learning the features of Standard Australian English. The following snapshot is from our… Continue Reading →

Ten sentence stories have an impact

A story doesn’t have to be long – in fact it can be just ten sentences. This term, students from Room 4 looked at creating impactful, but short, stories. We looked at a couple of examples and came up with… Continue Reading →

Missing the Olympics? UPS students have a solution!

Ready, set, roll! Potatoes this week have sprouted up from all around the world to compete in the annual Potato Olympics, hoping to claim a glorious medal! Their trainers are ready to rumble as they have their whole country behind… Continue Reading →

Through my classroom window…

16th June Today, in Room 21, we took time to reflect on and write about what we could see outside the windows of our classroom. We hope you enjoy our writing. From the Year 4 students of Room 21. Adelaide… Continue Reading →

Mary Had a Little Lamb… 2.0

The following short narrative was written by Abbie Lee, a Year 5 student in Room 19. Responding to our latest Family Writing Challenge, Abbie decided to take one of her favourite nursery rhymes and turn it into a whole new… Continue Reading →

Budding writers let their imaginations run wild

The Year 2 students in Room 17 have been engaging in an in depth study of narrative writing this semester. We have learned about simple and compound sentence structure, and how a good author is very selective with their choice… Continue Reading →

Reconciliation: embracing tomorrow by not forgetting the past

This term the Year 4 students in Room 21 have been learning about Indigenous Australians and what they traded, their art, language and how they cared for the land. Our class has been experimenting with some indigenous artwork. We have… Continue Reading →

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