Living the Learner Profile @ Kunyung!

GLilyood Day Kunyung Families!

You know……..when you try to explain to people that schools are busy places…..it?s hard to put into words just exactly what can be going on at the same time in the one school!

If it’s the Learner Profile we are trying to develop in each and every one of our students (Remembering that the attributes of the Learner Profile include being: Thinkers, courageous, inquirers, balanced, reflective, knowledgeable, principled and caring!) then please have a look at what’s been going on @ Kunyung this week AND see how many Learner Profile Attributes are in Action……Oh! and add to the following our Student Led Tours, Cross Country and Interschool Sport……WOW!

CURRENT UNITS OF INQUIRY! 🙂

Preps-

People use symbols to be expressive and to communicate.

Some Prep Questions about their Unit of Inquiry!

‘What do signs do?’

‘How do signs work?’

‘Where else can I find these signs?’

‘Does Jeff use a sign at the crossing?’

‘What would happen if we didn’t have signs?’

Juniors-

People recognise important events through celebrations and traditions.

‘We had lots of questions about celebrations all over the world. We wrote down our questions. We talked about our questions with our friends and our mums and dads. Now we are making a celebration in our classroom. We are sharing what we find out with our friends. We recognise important events with celebrations and traditions. Some examples are Christmas, Birthdays, Anzac Day, and New babies being born. (April and Paul)

Middles-

Technology impacts on the world of work and leisure.

We asked lots of questions and our teachers helped us to make our ‘skinny’ questions a bit ‘fatter’.

Once we had our questions we used books, computers, our friends, teachers and parents to help find some information to help answer our questions.

Now we are going to share our learning with our class in any way we choose. We are doing a 2 minute talk. (Mira and Ben)

Seniors-

Governmental systems and decisions can promote or deny equal opportunities and social justice.

To find out how Governments make decisions and the impact of these decisions we chose small groups and formed our party! We were asked what we would do if we were in charge of the school. We worked in teams to make decisions and realised it’s not that easy to all agree. We are presenting our policies to the other Year 6 Students and then analysing how each of our policies promoted or denied equal opportunity and social justice! We will be reflecting on how we worked as a team as well as the decisions we made. (Aria and Megan)Action

 

Dear Kunyung Parentssail_logo mock up

Could you be so kind as to pick up a few extra pens and pencils when you are out shopping to donate towards The Sail Programme.

The Sail Programme is where Refugee children are assisted with their learning so as you can imagine lots of pens and pencils are needed.

There will be a donation box in the office.

Thank you

From Michaela (Year 6)

On behalf of The KEAST and ACTION Teams

Nude Food 2

Nude Food is here again so please could you put foods that don?t require wrappings in your children?s lunch boxes. This will help our environment heaps! Nude Food will be every Wednesday. On Fridays we will show a tally of the winning class and they will receive an amazing trophy to keep for the week.

(Thanks to Mr Eckerman for helping us to design our Nude Food Poster)

From the KEAST and ACTION Teams

NUTRITION PRESENTATION 😉Let's PAck Lunch

Parents from Kunyung and surrounding Kindergartens attended an informative and interestingly presented session on packing a healthy lunch for your children! The session was run by a Kunyung Parent, Alison Miles, who is also a qualified dietician (Bachelor of Science) who has spent many years working with Elite Athletes focussing on their diets and eating habits. The session was well attended and all parents who participated loved the practical tips shared by Alison and the ideas that are actually manageable by the ?normal? parent packing a daily lunch!

Many Thanks Alison and we are already working on a follow up session! Stay Tuned!

Student Leadership

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Over the past 2 weeks I have had the privilege of working with all the Senior School Students on developing their Public Speaking skills. We worked through ‘Mrs Jackson’s 10 Public Speaking Tips’ and then every student had to write and give a 30 second presentation using these tips! The students were awesome and overcome ‘butterflies in the tummy’ to deliver their speeches!

Year 5 Aspirant Leaders Day

Last Monday Mrs Jay and 8 Year 5 Students attending Mt Eliza Secondary College for an Aspirant Leaders Day with other Local Primary Schools. The children focussed on developing their Leadership Skills and came back to school ready to implement those skills straight away! 

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