Amaroo:

Students from Amaroo have been busy this week working and playing together while welcoming new friends to their classroom and welcoming back students who were learning from home during remote learning. Everyone is happy to be back in routine, spending time with each other and their teachers.

Learning Support Centre:

The students from the Learning Centre have been working and playing with their peers, reconnecting with friends that they haven’t seen during remote learning and many of the students are beginning to turn their thoughts towards high school. Others are learning class routines and are enjoying being supported in learning with their peers.

Early Stage One:

Welcome Back Kindergarten!

It has been so wonderful to see Kindergarten return to school. We have loved seeing their beautiful smiles back in our classrooms. Kinder were welcomed back last Monday with a Beanie Boo and decorated classrooms. The children were so happy to see their friends and teachers again. The children have been busy relearning the school routines and playing with the new playground equipment. They have been practising their reading, writing and Mathematics and are particularly enjoying the fine motor activities and rotation activities.

Year 1:

It is the second week back for Year 1. The students have been focusing on ways they can feel happy and be ready to learn. One of the many things they have been doing to feel happy is learning how to create fabulous self portraits.

Year 2:

It is the first week back for Year 2. The students have been focusing on building a greater understanding of their own social emotional learning and working together to make learning in their classrooms fun!

This week we were delighted to be back in our Stage 2 classrooms, learning with and from each other face to face. Throughout these first few days we have spent time getting to know each other and our routines all over again and have been focusing on our wellbeing, reflecting on the year that was.

In Year 4, we spent time catching up with our friends in “Yarning circles”. A yarning circle is the practice of speaking and listening from the heart. They are a traditional part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture that have been used for centuries to learn from a collective group, build respectful relationships and to preserve and pass on cultural knowledge.

We also spent time on our self-awareness by designing “Proud peacocks”. We thought about all the things that we are proud of and shared them with our friends. We also worked together on maths games and problem solving. It was a welcome change to be learning in groups. We missed this during remote learning.

Year Six have been enjoying reconnecting with each other and being able to have the next 8 weeks together before they embark on their journey to high school.