Happy Halloween! Great to see our PIPS teachers & staff embracing the occasion and ready to have fun with the children! 🎃👻🎃

Nursery having some Friday Fun splashing, scooping, rolling and digging in the PIPS exploratorium! This week we made sand ice creams, dinosaur discovery, water tea party and exploring the concept of motion and speed with cars, ramps & guttering!

Our school garden is looking wonderful. Ms Kathy has been busy making sure that children get an opportunity to do some planting, watering and caring for the plants as well as feeding/washing the pet snails which have become very popular! Fostering a love, respect and interest in nature and our environment is so important for young children 🌴🌿🌱🌸🌷🐌🐛🦋🐝🐞

Such fun this week as our PN classes continue their inquiry into exploring with their five senses by going on a 'sensory exploration walk' inspired by the popular book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. They were such risk-takers as they squelched through mud, paddled through water and swooshed through the snowstorm!

Look at all these wonderful small world scenarios our teachers created; now armed with lots of new ideas and inspiration for creating small worlds with the children. Small world play helps children to develop many different skills including; language, imagination and social skills.

A great teacher professional development day, as teachers from our HK and KLN campuses combined together to develop and extend their learning and knowledge. Today's focus was developing a repertoire of ideas for dough and small world play, as well as working together towards our IB evaluation.

An insight into our lovely school where play-based learning and inquiry is alive and evident. PIPS - where early years matter

Cora Ha works with families to help build connectedness between adult and child. This first session provides parents with adaptive solutions for children to tame tantrums and more. In Session 2, Cora Ha explores ways to love your children with appropriate limits. Parents will then learn and practice techniques that will result in short, medium, and long term gains. Please register with Ms. Nora at the school reception if you would like to join one of the sessions.

7 new Storysacks for our children to explore: The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Handa's Surprise, Noah's Ark, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Owl Babies

It's always exciting getting new resources in school for the children and teachers to use and explore! This recent order from TTS in the UK consists of lots of small world resources, some new P.E. equipment and new things to explore on our light tables

To celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival (also know as 'Lantern Festival' or 'Moon Festival') children have been creating lanterns using recycled materials at home and bringing them in to display at school. Look at some of the colourful and interesting creations we currently have adorning our school:

Our LKP classes are inquiring about communication and the impact of technology through their unit under the transdisciplinary theme 'How the World Works'. Last week they went on a trip to the post office to learn about the process involved in writing and posting letters. Everyone wrote and sent one local and one air mail. A great opportunity for authentic and meaningful writing.