“We should create a documentation board like we had in prep that shows all our maths!” Ravi

Over the last couple of weeks, the children have begun publishing work on our Giant Journal of Learning. Reflecting on the year, the students in the neighbourhood are drawing on skills developed through PHN reporting in term 1 and terms 2 to document learning, summarize, edit and publish.

“Leaving a note is just like the Giant Journal of Learning! We are leaving a GIANT note for next years year 1s and 2s” – Milo

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Initially, the children worked together to identify key highlights from the year, quickly moving into three inquiry project groups, each with a unique focus. The groups are Literacy, Numeracy and Wellbeing, and the students in each group have the job of documentor and editor. It is up to each group to capture the learning from 2021 in the way that suits best, which has quickly seen re-exploration of the spaces and the languages they support.

“It connects to the Giant Journal of Learning! That book is a note to every 1&2 who comes to this neighbourhood! But, of course, other are notes too.” -Oscar

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“Such as… The Inquiry wall in the torus, documentation of students, our blog and our portfolio!” – Oscar

As we pull the Giant Journal of Learning together, students have also taken on the responsibility to design the front cover, contents page, puzzles pages, authors biographies, photo pages and digital codes to gain access to seesaw learning from the year.

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We are looking forward to finalizing our Giant Journal of Learning soon and presenting it back to the children and to the wider community and a celebration of the 2021 school year.

It could be a story but there is learning in it. So like a fiction and non-fiction book together – Rohan

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We are so thrilled (and a little bit tired) now we are back together full time. It is fantastic to have the buzz back into the neighbourhood and we are all slowly getting used to our natural daily rhythms. The last couple of weeks have also been a time for reflection as we work together to think about how to share and celebrate the year that was. Neighbourhood 1 joined together to discuss our inquiry and reflect on our current understandings.

Our inquiry has been about communicating – Finn

Communicating our learning – Rohan

We’ve been communicating to each other and other people we know – Elspeth

We have also been thinking about how to capture this with our broader community.

We  share your learning with someone else because then they learn from them – Freya

As a neighbourhood we have decided to create a ‘Giant journal of Learning’ to capture the year that was.

I’ve got another idea we can explore to communicate. We could make a big journal with all of our learning in it – Finn

In our neighbourhood meeting we discussed and worked together to think about how to approach this in the best way possible. The conversation was fluid and full of excitement as children due from the experiences this year and built on each others ideas.

We can write down lots of different ways to communicate and lots of different ideas – Milo

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Kiko – even though its not words but we can always communicate by drawing what we are thinking

Flynn – We could analyse responses and see if they are like ours and if there is a connection.

Emma – We could  fill it with all our ideas and feelings about school this year. 

Finn – If all of the ideas are different we could have different of groups so we could get more of the same and sort them into chapters and an index

Kiko – If we are making a giant journal we also need to make sure that almost everyone of the kids need to be included

Elspeth – We could make different sections for different types of learning because there are so many different types of learning.

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As educators, we reflected back on this pivotal discussion with the children and have developed three working groups where children will reflect, summarize and present the learning journey from this year in languages that they have excelled at. We are very excited at the prospect of publishing our Giant Journal in the coming weeks.