Investigative Play”, based on Walker Learning, has been introduced into our Kindergarten classrooms.
All kindergarten teachers have participated in hours of professional learning, via Zoom, through Early Life Foundations. Early Life Foundations is a specialist team providing professional learning in Walker Learning. Walker Learning promotes child-focussed inquiry learning, based on child development research and neuroscience. Evidence shows that investigative play not only increases student engagement and motivation, but also oral language, literacy and numeracy. Many primary schools across Australia and within CEDP have implemented investigative play, with positive results. Early indications suggest that St Michael’s evidence will be similar.
At St Michael’s, each Tuesday to Friday, Kindergarten learning starts with investigative play. Teachers set up ‘stations’, indoors and outdoors, each with clear developmental and learning objectives. Investigative play is rigorous: Teachers, and teacher assistants, engage with the children to support their learning through open-ended questioning and discussion.
St Michael's Catholic Primary Baulkham Hills
www.stmichaelsbhills.catholic.edu.au
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06 Dec 2025
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🎶 Warming Up for a Magical Night 🎶 Our school choir is all smiles and soaring notes as they warm up for the St Michael’s Parish Carols tonight! ✨💛 The students have been practising beautifully and are ready to share the joy of music with our community. 🎤🌟 We can’t wait to hear their angelic voices fill the church! 🎄🎶 #SchoolChoir #ParishCarols #ChristmasSpirit #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #ProudSchoolCommunity #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
05 Dec 2025
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🌟 Celebrating Term Achievements! 🌟 A huge congratulations to our Student of the Term and Citizen of the Term award recipients! 🎉✨ These amazing students have shown kindness, dedication and a wonderful commitment to our school values. We are so proud of you! 💛👏 #ProudSchool #StudentOfTheTerm #CitizenOfTheTerm #SchoolSpirit #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
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06 Dec 2025
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🎶 Warming Up for a Magical Night 🎶 Our school choir is all smiles and soaring notes as they warm up for the St Michael’s Parish Carols tonight! ✨💛 The students have been practising beautifully and are ready to share the joy of music with our community. 🎤🌟 We can’t wait to hear their angelic voices fill the church! 🎄🎶 #SchoolChoir #ParishCarols #ChristmasSpirit #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #ProudSchoolCommunity #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
05 Dec 2025
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🌟 Celebrating Term Achievements! 🌟 A huge congratulations to our Student of the Term and Citizen of the Term award recipients! 🎉✨ These amazing students have shown kindness, dedication and a wonderful commitment to our school values. We are so proud of you! 💛👏 #ProudSchool #StudentOfTheTerm #CitizenOfTheTerm #SchoolSpirit #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
04 Dec 2025
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🐥 Throwback to Our Kindy Chick Adventures! 🐣 We’re taking a sweet little trip down memory lane today… back to the moment Kindy welcomed their fluffy baby chickens! 💛🐤 The smiles, the gentle cuddles, the tiny peeps. It was pure magic watching our students care for these adorable newcomers. ✨ Such a beautiful reminder of how much we learn when we nurture, explore and discover together! 🌼 #KindyLife #BabyChicks #SchoolDays #PrimarySchoolFun #LearningIsFun #AustralianSchools #ThrowbackThursday #SchoolCommunity #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
03 Dec 2025
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📚 Premier’s Reading Challenge Superstars! 🌟 Our amazing readers have been busy turning pages all year. They were recognised with their Premier’s Reading Challenge certificates! 🤩✨ We are so proud of their dedication, love of stories, and commitment to growing as readers. Seeing their smiling faces as they accepted their certificates was truly heart-warming 💛 Well done to all our bookworms… keep inspiring knowledge, faith, and love with every book you open! 📖💫 #PremiersReadingChallenge #ProudReaders #SchoolLife #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #PrimarySchool #ReadingJourney #AussieSchools #LearningTogether #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
02 Dec 2025
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🌟 Soaring to New Heights! 🌟 What an incredible achievement for Mia last week ⭐ She competed at Nationals and placed 5th in the country! 🥳 The competition was fierce, but Mia gave it everything she had and smashed a personal best with an amazing 11-metre throw 💪🎉 We are so proud of her determination, grit and talent. Well done, Mia! 👏💛 #ProudMoment #Nationals #PersonalBest #SchoolSpirit #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #GoMia #FutureChampion #PrimarySchoolSport #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
30 Nov 2025
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✨ Celebrating Big Achievements! ✨ What a fantastic assembly we had on Friday! Our students shone bright with a whole stack of amazing awards and celebrations 🌟 🥇 A huge shout-out to Evan L. in Year 4 for topping the entire state in ICAS Science and earning a special medal! 🎉 Three of our students earned High Distinctions in their ICAS assessments. 🏅 Our regular Gold and Silver awards recognised students who have been giving their absolute best each week. 📚 We also celebrated all the students who received Credit and above in ICAS Science, Maths and English. 📖 Premier’s Reading Challenge certificates were handed out to our super readers. 🏀 And to top it all off, our basketball teams brought home first place at the diocesan competition! So proud of our incredible students and their dedication, resilience and love of learning 💛 #SchoolPride #StudentSuccess #ICAS #PremiersReadingChallenge #BasketballChampions #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #PrimarySchoolLife #SydneySchools #CelebratingAchievements #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
27 Nov 2025
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🎈 Thanksgiving Fun in Year 3! 🎈 Our Year 3 students have been diving into celebrations and commemorations this term, and this week we’re getting into the spirit of Thanksgiving! 🍁✨ Students watched highlights from last year’s famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and chose their favourite character to turn into their very own giant parade balloon artwork. The creativity has been next level and our classroom is looking more festive by the minute! 🎨🦃 We love seeing our learners explore traditions from around the world as they inspire knowledge faith and love each day. 💛 #Thanksgiving #MacysParade #Year3 #CreativeKids #PrimarySchoolFun #LearningIsFun #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #ArtInTheClassroom #SydneySchools #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
26 Nov 2025
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✨ Robot Ready! 🤖✨ Our students had an absolute blast at last week’s Science Incursion, diving into an exciting world of robotics and coding! 💡🧠💻 From building bots to programming clever moves, curiosity was buzzing and creativity was on full display. 🚀🤩 We love seeing our learners explore, experiment and grow through hands-on STEM fun! 🔧✨ #STEMEducation #FutureInnovators #RoboticsFun #CodingForKids #ScienceIncursion #PrimarySchoolLife #LearningIsFun #InspiringKnowledgeFaithAndLove #SchoolCommunity #CreativeKids #TechTime #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
25 Nov 2025
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🌌 Mission to Mars! 🌌 Our Year 5 innovators have blasted off into their latest PBL adventure, designing and building their very own space technology prototypes! 🚀✨ Each invention was created with one big dream in mind: helping the future colonisation of Mars. From clever designs to creative thinking, our students showed just how far imagination can take us… even to another planet! 🌍➡️🔴 So proud of their teamwork, problem-solving and out-of-this-world ideas! ⭐️ #Year5 #PBL #STEM #SpaceLearning #FutureEngineers #YoungInnovators #DesignThinking #21stCenturySkills #PrimarySchoolLife #MarsMission #FutureReady #LearningInAction #CuriosityCreators #HandsOnLearning #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
24 Nov 2025
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✨ Golden Moments at Gymnastics Gala Day ✨ What a day! Our students absolutely shone at last week’s Gymnastics Gala Day, and gold was definitely our lucky colour 💛🤸♀️🤸♂️ With four individual overall gold medals and the gold medal in the teams competition, our gymnasts gave us so much to cheer about! Their hard work, focus, and passion were on full display, and we couldn’t be prouder of their incredible achievements 🌟 Well done to our superstar athletes! You’ve inspired us all! #GymnasticsGalaDay #SchoolSpirit #ProudMoment #InspiringKnowledgeFaithLove #PrimarySchoolLife #GrowingTogether #SchoolDays #AussieSchools #LittleLearners #ActiveKids #TeamSpirit #ProudSchool #PrimarySchoolFun #GalaDay #SchoolSport #StudentSuccess #SchoolCommunity #BestSchoolEver #StMichaels #PrimarySchool #BaulkhamHills #CSPD #CatholicSchool
