An Insight

For six hours a day, the girls are at school. Some afternoons they are chatty telling us snippets of their days while other days are one syllable answers - How was your day? Good. We are kept informed of their learning via a variety of ways. A portfolio comes home each semester displaying a variety of pieces of work from various subject areas. Then there are the 3 way interviews - student, parent and teacher. Plus seesaw... an app that the teacher post photos, videos or messages relating to your child, class or year.

I particularly love the portfolios, a keepsake of their learning journey. A fun piece from Katy's portfolio was this obviously done at the start of the school year - the glasses are looking into one's expectations and goals for Year 3.



On her glasses Katy wrote - I can not blew (believe) I am in year 3. I'm so exited (excited) about this year. I am rilly (really) looking forward to learn how to use chom books (chrome book - a computer) and go on camp and bing (being) a big budy (buddy). I rilly (really) want to learn my time tables and to learn how to tipe (type) farst (fast). I am so exited (excited) about the reset (rest) of the years and what exiting (exciting) things will be.

We are halfway through Year 3 now and I'm pretty sure that Katy is loving it as much as she thought she would. She has really clicked with her teacher, which has shone through in her academic progress.

Ella is also embracing the year especially the split Year 5/6 class format. From what I can see, they tend to mix up both the years and the classes. Lots of collaborative learning. She has had an interesting year full of lots of opportunities, experiences and surprises including one of her friends coming out as transgender. Ella (like most of the year) didn't blink an eyelid, is in full support of her friend and continued like nothing had happened.  Perhaps a recent piece of work from her portfolio in recognising those inner qualities of others was to help build strong relationships between students. In this piece, a student would identify a character strength, write down supporting evidence and sign their name. The student would fold the paper so their writing was hidden and pass it on to the next student who would add their thoughts. Once filled, the person whose was being written about would unroll the paper and read all the lovely comments. A interesting exercise to see how one is views by their peers!