The year six students began practicing their graduation song this morning. It’s been a few weeks of the song committee working away curating song and lyric choice together with Deb, but has taken shape quite well now. Singing as a choir requires a lot of coordination and commitment from the students and some great direction […]
On the 17th of October, all the grade 5/6 students went out to the big oval to have a skipping rope jump-off. At the end of the jump-off we had a competition for the longest continuous skip, after a solid 15 minutes of skipping Hugo and Noah came victorious. The reason we have the jump-off
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Earlier in the year we were looking at ways we can contribute to the community to make a difference. Jackson Saunders came to visit the 5/6 Neighbourhood talk about Polished Man. Polished Man is a charity that raises money for children that suffer from abuse. Jackson is in year six and shared with us about
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Not all of us are inspired by classics and offering Shakespeare to a young audience can be a hard sell; however, judging from the attentive audience of Just Romeo and Juliet, our artists in residence nailed it! Not only did The Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company manage to capture us with their energetic performance, but they
I am Eleven workshops As we begin our new inquiry into Identity and the ways we define ourselves, we have viewed the Australian documentary, I am Eleven. This film interviews a range of 11-year-olds around the world with the purpose of comparing their values, beliefs, ideas, and experiences during this unique period of growth that
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Year 5/6 have been introduced to a range of poetry during Term 2. Over the past three weeks, we have deconstructed both Blackout Poetry and Reverse (or Backward) Poetry and attempted to construct our own poems using these structures either in pairs or individually. Poetry is a great form of self expression and we have
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As a culmination of the inquiry, Year 5/6 students confidently presented their Action Plans this week. It has been their challenge to create a plan that would enact change that would benefit local community members. We observed that many of the students were inspired to create plans that would encourage values of respect, kindness, inclusiveness, and
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It’s been pretty much business as usual, however we’ve welcomed a new team member to the 5/6 neighbourhood. If you haven’t had a chance to meet Kat, here’s a little intro…. TRIBES This week we also got into Tribes to improve the focus on learning during workshops. In the workshops we explored ways of
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It’s been a full on two weeks of NAPLAN, but finally coming to an end. We are very proud of all our students and their efforts during this time. We had special DET visitors during that time that were impressed with how settled and focused our Year 5s were. Year 6s used the time to deepen
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We’re getting into full swing now with the inquiry. With nearly all of our students finishing their One Minute provocation where we asked them what they would do with a minute of the world’s attention. This has given us some important insights into the things that our children feel are of most importance and to