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Student Leadership Report Below are some individual accounts from members of the student leadership team.

Mindfulness in Prep Since the beginning of the year, we have placed a large focus on our social and emotional Wellbeing., A few words from our students -

Exploring through Inquiry Our Inquiry unit is looking at creating maps and locating different places in a neighbourhood.

Creating new narratives... Our Year 2 Narrative

Array Cities and Crazy Hair! Banner Photo

Array Cities and Crazy Hair! This term the Year 3’s focused on Arrays as part of our study on multiplication. As a cohort we made an array city. Following this, there are a few students who have spoken about doing this:, On the 7th of June 2022 The Lakes took part in raising awareness and funds for Cystic Fibrosis. We had a day that the students came to school with crazy hair. Below are a few of the day’s highlights from some of the students in Year 3:

Hands on learning! This term, the Year 4s got to go on their first excursion in 2 years to Scienceworks! We were super excited to be out and about, and we got to learn many different things about Science from Space to Liquid Nitrogen to Sports! , Hands on Math Activities, Inquiry

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Reflections on refractions

Our Individual Pride Year 6 students were asked to share what has made them proud this term. They were encouraged to think about activities completed whilst at school but also about achievements they have made outside of school. It has been amazing to see the talent that has been hiding in Year 6, here are some examples we would like to share!

Maths Masterclass

Interschool Achievements! Again Term 2 Interschool Sport has proven tricky due to Melbourne’s unpredictable weather! However cross country was able to go ahead as planned. We sent between 40 and 50 students to compete at district level and most completed their race without being rained on.

Music Making! A whirlwind term of hands-on music making and performing!

Art at The Lakes

Kinder visits in Term 2 What a wonderful term we have had forming relationships with our local kinders. These visits have been a terrific opportunity for our older Lakes Legends to show their leadership skills in the community. They have also provided valuable school readiness skills for our local kinder kids.

Shining stars on stage! They say at night the human eye can see a candle flickering 50kms away. That’s how far whole school concerts and the performing arts have felt to our students over the last few years. Like a candle ever so distant, visible and burning to be seen. Finally in from the cold, our arts hearts sparked once again. , 8D student reflections on the performance:

Winter Sports Reports Year 7/8 Boys Football Report, Year 7 & 8 Netball, Year 9 & 10 Netball

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Semester 1 Report

This semester has been a steep learning curve for all of the VCAL students. Time for talk was over, it was time to actually engage into some action. Our 2 Box projects were the focus of the term and we were determined to complete the highest quality projects possible.

Every aspect of the projects were planned, managed and completed by the students. They faced challenges and overcame issues that came from a range of directions. However the level of commitment shown to see these projects through to the end was inspirational for every teacher and student at The Lakes.

VCAL BBQ Wrap up

We completed a lot of different activities this semester, but none made us cry this much.

Cutting onions at 8 in the morning as a team was a new experience. We all had a job to do on the day or tasks to be done leading up to the Song Dance and Drama Night BBQ.

It started with a brainstorm. What do we have to do before? How much stuff do we need to buy? Who was going to do what? How much were we gonna make?

You’d think running a BBQ would be easy, right. Apparently not blowing yourself up using a gas bottle is kind of important and OH&S is a real thing. Let’s just say no one was harmed before, during or after the BBQ and everyone left with everything they came with.

It was a fun experience getting to be part of the whole night. Everyone's got to eat sometime. Looks like we even made a profit, and we are looking forward to planning an excursion with it. Educational of course.

Thanks for the BBQ warm up, we are looking forward to sizzling some more sausages at the Primary Athletics day next term.