Years 5 & 6 Neighbourhood

The 5/6 students have shown incredible resilience and engagement during our remote learning period.  The students have had opportunities to practice many life skills like time management and how to organise their day.  They have documented their learning over various platforms including: their books, SeeSaw, and the Google Suite.  Students have explored Geometry and Measurement …

These past few weeks have been big for the ⅚ neighborhood. We have been strengthening our determination and resilience capabilities by accepting challenges and seeking opportunities for further growth in the classroom and in the community. We have had tests in reading and mathematics and we have also worked on finishing up our exploration and …

This past week, the year fives were invited to submit applications to be a part of the Hong Kong sister school exchange programme. In spite of the obvious travel limitations, we will be maintaining our connections with Luk Hing Too Primary through correspondence and video calls. Sadly, and overseas trip just isn’t in the cards! …

During the past two weeks in the 5/6 neighbourhood we have continued exploring the concept of personal and historical growth and worked hard on developing a Q & A for the mothers day assembly. On Thursday of week 3 everyone in 5/6 had our first interschool sports experience. We divided up into the five different …

This term, a lot is happening. Over the past few weeks, we have been working a lot on our inquiry into growth. Some of the forms of growth we have been working on are personal and historical evolutionary just to name a few. We have also been working on group projects. We got into mixed …

This term we have been looking for ways to provoke creative writing by using short prompts to generate ideas, build confidence, and boost enthusiasm for the process. After 15-20 minutes of work, students can choose to volunteer to share passages from their writing that they’re proud of. Here is Hamish, Edie and Mila to tell …

Blog After nearly a year since the Welcome Expo, the students have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to showcase their learning in the physical neighbourhood spaces. On Wednesday evening of week 7, it was with great excitement that we re-opened the gates to our first ticketed Learning Expo. Paisley Meyer and Sophie Mason have shared …

After the snap 5 day lockdown and all of the COVID-19 restrictions we have finally been able to hold the yearly swimming carnival. On the 22nd of February, the Senior School went to Coburg Olympic Swimming pool and participated in the swimming events which were: Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly.  Reflection on our day shared …

Exploring Growth in the 5/6 Neighbourhoods. Personal growth: We have connected this idea to the growth of human capabilities and potential. To understand personal growth we did a workshop where we brainstormed as many different aspects of as we could and then categorised them. Historical growth: Historical growth is the growth of technology, medicines, understandings …

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