My favourite activity at camp was…………… ‘The flying fox because I was nervous to start with, then I saw Olive do it, then I trusted myself and did it and it was exciting.’ – Ella ‘Bridge building because I helped build it and I had…
This year’s Mylor Primary School Bonfire Night—taking place on the Mylor Oval on the evening of Saturday 25 June 2016—is shaping to be even bigger than last year’s record-breaking event. The 2015 attendance of nearly 2,400 people was the highest ever for the school’s sole…
Last Friday the 18th of March Tyson & Georgia represented the Hills in the 2016 Country Swimming Championships at SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre. ‘When we first got to the Aquatic and Leisure Centre we both got SAPSASA merchandise, including a jumper, cap and…
On Monday August 24th, students visited the Stirling Library to attend the ‘Science Spectacular Show’ as part of this year’s Book Week activities. The performance was filled with a lot of loud bangs, smoke, dry ice and fire, keeping everyone on edge and entertained. We…
In Term 1 the children enjoyed a PBL topic on masks combining the learning areas of art and Indonesian. The focus of the PBL was for the students to learn about the meaning and symbolism of Indonesian masks and understand that masks are a way…
On the 24th and 25th of February the older students in the Magpie Unit had 2 Project Based Learning (PBL) Co-construction days with Birdwood High School, Campbell Town Performing Arts School from New South Wales, Hilltop Road Primary School also from NSW and us, Mylor…
On January the 28th to January the 30th the whole school went to Woodhouse for our whole school camp. Woodhouse is in Piccadilly; it is a big bushland type of place with a campsite on it. When we got there the first thing we did…
This term in the Bandicoot Unit students have begun a ‘Farm to Fork’ topic in which they have been investigating different food groups and how they travel from various origins to our lunchboxes. We began with a series of Masterclasses about each food group before…
The Magpie Unit has started a unit of work looking at how maths appears in Art. The students will study 4 art mediums (Charcoal, Lino Printing, Painting and Sculpture) and 3 maths topics (Fibonacci Number Sequence, 2D and 3D shape and Angles). The final outcome…
The families of Mylor and the broader Adelaide Hills community have always flocked to Mylor Oval in their hundreds for the near legendary annual Bonfire Night. But this year, on the evening of Saturday 21 June 2014, it was the busiest anyone could remember. Now…