Archive: September 2019

Footy Colours Day – Friday 20th September

Don’t forget to wear your favourite footy colours on the final day of term for Footy Colours Day.  If you don’t have a favourite footy team, then wear your favourite sports team colours or School House top.  It’s going to be lot of fun. Arrive at school from 8.30am for a kick of the footy and, meet…

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The solar boats were a great success!

The Grade 4  students have been working tremendously hard over the last four weeks designing and creating solar boats and on Tuesday the boats were trialed. Students had the opportunity to make adjustments to their boats after the trial, and the official time trial will happen in week 10. Students are very excited to share…

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Grade 5/6 Business; Economics Mania and a Graduation Fundraiser

In week 8, the Grade 5/6s participated in the incredibly engaging Smoothie Bar business excursion. The excursion covered everything from collecting market research data (including producing graphs for their data), calculating costs and profits, trialing smoothie flavours, receiving and taking on feedback and pitching their smoothie business to the “shark tank”. Teachers were extremely proud…

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Tuckshop Orders Open on QkR

A special tuckshop will be available on Wednesday 18 September to coincide with the Aladdin performance. Orders are now open on QkR and can be placed up until 9pm on Monday 16 September

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Learning starts at 9am at Toorak PS

The teaching staff has raised some concern that many students are arriving late for school on a fairly regular basis. Unfortunately, this is a situation that can have a negative effect on the education of not only those students who are late, but also the other students in the class.  Did you know that a…

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GRADE 2 – Chemical Science and Scienceworks

Grade 2 have started a unit on Chemical Science for Inquiry. Students are having fun looking at different materials – solids, liquids, natural materials and unnatural materials, and how they can change when heated, cooled and mixed. We have been completing many experiments and students have been thinking scientifically, making hypothesis and changing variables. To…

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