Serpentine Primary School
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@EdResearchAU
AERO
filming day at Serpentine PS! We are so excited to be the first WA primary school for this special project!
@EbonyDowson
@PennyAB76
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Thrilled to share that I'll be serving as the Principal of Serpentine PS starting next term, succeeding the remarkable
@KendallLange81
. Looking forward to promoting a culture of continuous improvement and implementing best practices.
Steph Le Lievre
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Our most up-to-date Playbook, along with all of our instructional routine checklists are available to download:
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Our staff looked at
@EdResearchAU
‘s guide to Sentence Combining. What a helpful document which really takes our explicit lessons to the next level. Thank you, AERO.
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We are excited to share our updated Instructional Playbook (2023 version), available to download from our website. Drawing upon expertise, such as
@lifelonglit
,
@DrLSHammond
,
@Smithre5
,
@NathanielRSwain
@mpershan
@PamelaSnow2
@TeachWellAus
and more
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We are working on a heap of these Instructional Routine Checklists for our priority Learning Areas. These will be used to guide peer observations and coaching sessions and are directly linked to our Instructional Playbook.
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🧵 1/4: We are so excited to release the first instalment of lessons, as part of the
#SyntaxProjext2022
. The Syntax Project is one half of The Grammar Project- the other half being the
#MorphologyProject
with the
@RivergumsPS
team &
@Jasmyn_K_Hall
.
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We are so excited to share our finalised Instructional Playbook!
This document is accompanied by our fine-grained/low variance scope & sequences as well as our assessment schedule.
@KendallLange81
@StephLeLievre_
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We will be using these resources to supplement our Spelling Mastery program in years 3-6.
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When planning a low variance curriculum, different schools will have different content, sequences and programs. What is important is the consistency and vertical alignment across the school. Shared resource banks ✅ shared sequences ✅ consistent lesson design✅
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Novel study utilising
@TheWritingRevol
#TheSyntaxProject
and Questioning the Author. We can’t wait to get started with this one in Year 4. Icons referenced to Bran Nguyen and Nathaniel Swain.
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Have you seen this PowerPoint yet?
Provide some templates and hints/tricks for every sentence level TWR task! Also perfect format for inserting into Daily Reviews.
By Leah Draper & Stephanie Le Lievre
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We are so proud to be one of five schools (Australia wide) selected for this report due to our commitment to whole school curriculum approaches and resourcing.
Incredible report for school leaders.
@hunter_jordana
@Amy_L_Haywood
Today we’re releasing our new Grattan Guide: How to implement a whole-school curriculum approach: A guide for principals! 🎉
In this video,
@hunter_jordana
shares why a whole-school curriculum is so important. Download the free, 40-page guide here:
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Moving to A3 low variance overviews rather than separate scope & sequence documents ✅
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We don’t claim it’s a perfect model, but we know the power of sharing in education. We have benefited from the sharing culture, so this is our way of paying it forward. We hope it is useful!
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Congratulations to our very own Miss Dowson, who just got picked up in the
#AFLWDraft
2018! Now we are all
@freodockers
supporters in the AFLW! Big congratulations to the best PE Teacher we know!
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Our playbook is a working document, refined and adapted as we learn & improve.
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Watch this space. Within the week, the first lot of morphology resources will be released as part of the
#MorphologyProject
@RivergumsPS
@NicoleF93788813
@SarahKolevski
@Jasmyn_K_Hall
@StephLeLievre_
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The quality of work coming out of our Australian Colonisation unit is phenomenal. These Year 3s and 4s are smashing goals.
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And we are live! Check out the first instalment of lessons for the morphology project!
@RivergumsPS
@Jasmyn_K_Hall
@NicoleF93788813
@SarahKolevski
@StephLeLievre_
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Our new school website is LIVE!!
We have information on our instructional approaches, policies, the knowledge-project coalition, and the part we are MOST excited about- our professional learning modules (with quizzes & reflections to come).
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FREE narrative story grammar icons and narrative hill by Stephanie Le Lievre from Serpentine PS and Jenny Baker from Fremantle Speech Pathology Services.
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40 + school leaders and teachers have visited Serpentine PS in the last 2 weeks to observe high impact teaching practices & knowledge-based units! We love visitors!
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We love our morphology lessons using the Morphology Project resources. Students form words using word matrices & apply suffixing conventions. They then pair-share to explain word meanings based on their knowledge of the individual morphemes. Vocab & spelling ✅
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#SyntaxProject2022
update! We are creating a series of editable sentence generation & expansion slides for Foundation/PP students. There are two formats - writing (using decodable text) and oral (using richer vocabulary). Have a look at these snippets created by
@Jasmyn_K_Hall
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2024 refined PL approach.
✅ PL modules from our website
✅ Engaging with
@Steplab_co
to provide more structure to our coaching approach
✅ Significantly expanding two large network collaborations.
Small schools can do big things too.
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We hosted visitors from 3 different schools today. The focus was on our primary English block. Our guests observed daily reviews, paired reading fluency, knowledge units and syntax lessons!
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Not sure where to start when teaching appositives?
Check out our lesson sequences:
✅ identifying appositives within a sentence and matching appositives to noun phrases
✅ selecting an appositive and inserting it within a sentence
✅ combining sentences using an appositive
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We are so excited about our Glow in the Dark exhibition. Incredible effort by our students and our Arts specialist, Kristie Pinto.
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We are in the process of updating our handbook. It will be available on our school website by the end of the year. Here’s a sneak peak…
#evidencebased
#readingscience
#explicitinstruction
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We are excited to begin our next lot of knowledge units across the school- a collaboration with Greenfields PS.
#WorkingTogether
#ManyHands
#sharedcurriculum
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This morning, we had over 30 visitors from
@fogartyedvance
schools and the
@GrattanInst
observing our dedicated teachers who demonstrated high impact instruction! More photos to come!
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We are excited to be working on our new website, to be launched for the 2024 school year. It will contain up-to-date information for parents, as well as our professional learning modules (as part of our induction program) linked to our instructional playbook.
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3 lessons added too PP Term 3, by Skye Anne Cook from
@RivergumsPS
Introduction to ‘but’
Introduction to ‘because’
Combined lesson on ‘but’ and ‘because’
Could be done just orally or written response. Link to your texts/topics/knowledge units etc.
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Wow! How wonderful and a testament to the hard work of many many teachers. Thank you Ochre for your incredible work getting them ready for this platform.
What a wonderful response for the Syntax materials - tens of thousands of downloads in under one day!
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Our deputy,
@StephLeLievre_
doing a fast paced daily review in PP. Let’s get those repetitions up to facilitate orthographic mapping.
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A little sneak peek at some of the EDI lessons on suffix conventions coming to assist with the morphology scope & sequence.
A collaborative project between
@RivergumsPS
@SerpentinePS
and Freo LDC. We have a bank of Latin & Greek base lessons in the making too!
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We prioritise professional learning on our school development days. We are doing a refresher on The Writing Revolution using
@ThinkForwardEdu
online video, and looking at DLD using the
@TheDLDProject_
resources.
And lots more!
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Explicit syntax lesson on adverbs, linking into narrative writing. Linking grammar to writing content is so important. We hope the
#SyntaxProject2022
will help schools to do more of this.
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We are committed to the Year 1 Phonics Check ✅
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We love it when students are sent to the office for GREAT work! The Year Twos have been learning all about Greek Mythology.
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Serpentine staff and the brilliant
@DrLSHammond
at
@Steplab_co
PD today with
@ollie_lovell
and
@Josh_CPD
. Thanks for having us
@poppywillowgirl
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Treasure Island Core Knowledge Unit in our Year 4 class. Smashing it, Miss V!
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Over 70 slides added to the Serpentine connect page (available to WA public schools only), containing daily review content on contractions and homophones - following Spelling Mastery progression.
#SharingIsCaring
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We are thrilled with this news and so excited Ochre are now hosting and refining these lessons.
We are excited to announce a new partnership between
@OchreEducation
and the Grammar Project, supported by the
@Fogarty_Fdn
. We are incredibly grateful to Stephanie Le Lievre from
@SerpentinePS
, all the teachers involved, and the Fogarty Foundation for their support.
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We are so excited that the brilliant expert teacher
@DaveMorkunas
is coming to the West to provide PL and math coaching to our coalition of schools.
#ScienceofLearning
#InvestingInStaff
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We are so excited to have played such a significant role in these resources, along with
@RivergumsPS
.
🚨New release!
We are pleased to release an additional 50 morphology resources developed in partnership with the Granmar Project, generously supported by
@Fogarty_Fdn
Materials include a focus on prefixes, suffixes and base words.
Find them here:
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The Syntax Project PL is now available on the website
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Our Year 3s are smashing the morphology work . This task was done after lots of scaffolding using the 3 different base variations.
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Wow! What an incredible afternoon with
@DaveMorkunas
. We are inspired and reinvigorated. In keeping with tradition, we began with a corker of a bar model question that challenged us all.
@ollie_lovell
got quite a few mentions too 😉
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Promoting a culture of sharing amongst schools. Our Instructional Playbook AND our PP-Year 2 Low Variance Phonics, Morphology & Etymology Sequence can be found here:
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Our First Nations Knowledge Unit planning is underway. Check out these snapshots from our Year 1 unit created by
@katy_main_
and Sharyn McGrath.
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A few more syntax & punctuation lessons added to the site today:
-sentence stems (subordinating conjunctions)
-sentence punctuation
-developing questions from pictures
All editable to fit into your learning content.
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⭐️ And just in case you missed the website link in the first tweet:
⭐️
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30 copies of these have arrived! We are looking forward to this novel study next year. We run a 2 year cycle of knowledge units and novel studies to account for composite classes.
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We are very excited to host
@daisychristo
this Wednesday. Serpentine PS teachers will be learning all about Comparative Judgement.
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Fact fluency is a huge focus in our school, from Pre-Primary all the way to Year 6.
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We are so excited about our new posters, ready for all classes Years 2-6!
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#SyntaxProject
update:
To assist those wish to use these resources next year, there will be some short videos uploaded on the website over the school hols with some key information and FAQs. Approx 1.5 hrs of content - so you could use in staff meetings/ Development Days.
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We are very excited to be presenting our approach to a knowledge-rich curriculum at WAPPA!
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We are excited to be presenting our school journey at Sharing Best Practice Gippsland VIC AND Capcricornia QLD!
We have a lot of conferences on offer this year all over the nation!
Please check our website for details of one near you
#sharingbestprac
@lifelonglit
@jettybe3
@DrLSHammond
@TVtheTeacher
@sdinhamunimelb
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Finishing touches for our Kindy information session tomorrow . Our 2024 kindy students have had 6 months of weekly Kindy readiness sessions and are buzzing with excitement to officially start at Serpentine PS.
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Etymology club in full swing for 2023 with
@BekWinning
. Students learning how to use to help clarify meaning and word history.
@jasonwade71
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Lessons are being added every week thanks to teachers working on content in their own time. The Reading Science in Schools (RSIS) and Serpentine PS scope and sequence has been used as a basis for other projects in Australia.
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‘Just follow the yellow brick road’ they said! Love the commitment of our staff!
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It's with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to our school principal,
@KendallLange81
. Your leadership will be deeply missed, and we wish you all the best in your new role. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to our school community and evidence-based practice
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We are ready for our curriculum coaching network meeting tomorrow! We will be discussing assessment schedules, coaching frameworks and future direction / strategic plans
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Explicit instruction in action in our Year 1 and Pre-primary classes with Mrs McGrath and Ms Sparkman!
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We're willing to resort to shameless bribery (the legal kind, we promise!) to secure relief teachers for our school!
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Serpentine and Greenfields PS staff collaborating today on our joint knowledge curriculum. An incredible amount of work has gone into this project- all content mapped out for the year and our first units ready to go! We are so proud of our project leader,
@BekWinning
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Paired reading fluency in action in our Year 2 class with Miss Winning.
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1) 'Combining sentences' is an evidence based strategy to improve writing. See the
@EdResearchAU
document here:
It’s also a
@TheWritingRevol
strategy.
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The Year Ones have been learning all about Animal Habitats with Miss Klem, as part of the Core Knowledge unit ‘Animal Habitats’. 👏
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A whole day listening to the incredible Professor David Kilpatrick, hosted by
@SOTLAus
. 8 of our dedicated staff are attending in their school holidays!
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Our new website is a few weeks away from launching! Information for parents, current & prospective staff, and the broader education community.
#LittleSchoolBigAmbition
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WA educators: Check out our Connect page. We have just uploaded our knowledge planning template, vocabulary template and syntax scope and sequence. There is also a growing bank of lessons that introduce
@TheWritingRevol
lessons. More will be uploaded each week.
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A day of coaching and lesson modelling at Serpentine PS with the one and only
@DaveMorkunas
!
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Well done to the amazing
@katy_klem
& Rebekah Winning for your
@researchED_Aus
presentation on ‘Instructional Routines for Building Fluency’ 👏
Rebekah and Katy are both expert teachers who have a passion for literacy instruction.
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Download our editable sentence punctuation posters on our Connect page - you can even put your own school logo on!
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We are very excited to have Bek Winning take on an English coaching role at Serpentine PS. This is Bek presenting to staff on one of her many areas of passion/expertise: rich-knowledge units. Well done, Bek 👏
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Today, we had 18 school leaders from all over the state visit us! Lots of classroom observations of daily reviews, paired fluency, explicit lessons, knowledge reading model and more! Very proud of all our staff & students!
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Can you guess what knowledge unit we are doing in Year 3/4, based on this syntax activity ?
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30 copies of these texts arrived today for one of our planned 2024 literature units!
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3 days until
@DaveMorkunas
visits Serpentine PS for some intensive coaching and professional learning!
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What a big morning of learning & collaborating!
Miss Dowson - PBS update.
Miss Winning - Knowledge Coalition update.
Miss V- TWR review
Mr Turnor - Math book study.
Mrs Le Lievre - sentence strategy review (combining sentences.)
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Thank you for all the comments about our new Instructional Playbook. We really appreciate all the support! We strongly believe in the culture of sharing. After all, we all have the same goal of improving student outcomes.
We are so excited to share our finalised Instructional Playbook!
This document is accompanied by our fine-grained/low variance scope & sequences as well as our assessment schedule.
@KendallLange81
@StephLeLievre_
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What a phenomenal website full of such great content. And we are so excited and humbled that The Syntax Project is included in
@reading_league
‘s resource section! Our teachers having a global impact on education ✅
Today, at
#TRLConf2023
, we announced Compass, a reliable and comprehensive resource that provides direction for educators, those working with emergent bilinguals, administrators, educator preparation programs, & policymakers/state education agencies.
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Over the next few weeks, the leaders and Serpentine PS and Greenfields PS will be finalising the sequence for our knowledge & literature units for 2024, which are taught within our English block.
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We are so excited to welcome Zoei Nixon to Serpentine PS as Deputy Principal from 2024 onwards. Zoei comes to a Serpentine with significant leadership and instructional coaching experience. She is currently an instructional leader at Challis Primary School.
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So great to see the Syntax Project being used across the world. Thanks Ms. Kervin for sharing!
We are working on expanding sentences using this fabulous resource from
#thegrammarproject
. I created an additional resource for the “you do” part of this lesson so that Ss could move the word boxes into place to facilitate sentence writing.
#TWR
@Glenburnie_ldsb
@LimestoneDSB
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More website progress which will host our professional learning modules (not live until 2024). Utilising the expertise of many ✅
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Our book study for Semester 1 is 🥁 …
How I wish I Taught Maths. Taking a deep dive into all things evidence-based Maths using this text &
@mrbartonmaths
webinars. Amping up our daily reviews, self-talk, diagnostic questioning, worked examples & more
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We love seeing The Syntax Project resources in action
It’s awesome to see how far some of our ESOL ākonga have come with their writing. Explicit, targeted teaching and quality resources from The Syntax Project have helped all our learners.
#wspn
#writing
#SOR
#structuredliteracy
#esol
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Prepping for our staff book study for semester 2: The Writing Revolution.
We spent last semester on the Questioning the Author text.
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