We have arrived at the end of term 1! This term is the first uninterrupted term we have had in more than two years. A full term, face to face at school. A full term of learning onsite, with their teachers and their peers. We are still functioning within strict Covid safe protocols, but life in schools is slowly returning. The buzz, the excitement, the engagement in learning. We are proud of our children, our staff and our families for all they have achieved this year in term 1. This curriculum newsletter celebrates the culmination of the learning in term 1. The making meaning and taking action with their learning based on their inquiry focus if wellbeing and safety.

Through line overview for this term - WELLBEING AND SAFETY

This term we have been focussing on wellbeing and safety for our Inquiry. Culminating in our PBL launch day yesterday it has been a fantastic start to the year! Our children have explicity been learning about resilience, respect, responsibility and safety!

Overarching statement:

We all have the right to feel safe, supported and connected to our community and our world. We can all contribute and be involved in creating a safe school environment, physically, socially, emotionally and digitally. We also need to understand how we can be responsible for making good choices to stay safe at home and in the wider community.

Wellbeing underpins all we do, and holding a positive growth mindset enables us all to be responsible for our own success.

We seek to nurture students who feel empowered and involved, and participate in effective actions to enhance student wellbeing, ownership and decision making.

In Grade One our inquiry this term has focused on the Positive Behaviours for Learning - Respect, Safety, Responsibility and Resilience.

The children have been learning about what these look like inside and outside the classroom. The children drew examples of these and they are displayed in the classroom to remind us to demonstrate these behaviours.

In Maths, we have been learning about Place Value. The children made Place Value monsters using MAB. Children used tens and ones to create the features of their monster and calculated how much their monster was worth.

This term, for our Inquiry unit, we learned about our P.B.L. values. We unpacked them in detail and learned about how to apply them in different settings. We then made information posters for others to refer to and learn from, as well as serve as a reminder of what these values look like.

In Inquiry the Grade 4 students have been exploring their emotions and investigating different ways to best manage these. Throughout the term the students have explored how various emotions feel and strategies they can use to cope in different situations. For their final piece the Grade 4 children designed and created a product that they will use to support them when managing their emotions.

In Grade 5 this term we have been learning what to do in bullying scenarios, whether it be at school or online. We have learned the importance of being an upstander, rather than a bystander. The Grade 5's created a final project designed to inform the school community about bullying and educate them about how to be upstanders.

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We are so proud of our children and all they have achieved in their learning this term! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and safe school holidays! See you all in term 2!

Kate Korber

Learning & Teaching Leader