Students from Prep to grade 6 continue to engage in learning in Inquiry through the big concept of Place and Space. Successful inquiry learning happens when students take part in authentic learning opportunities based around their wonderings, needs and interests. An inquiry should challenge students and help them to develop a range of relevant skills, understandings and dispositions needed to be successful inquirers. Inquiry learning allows students to actively research, make connections, share opinions and take action in their life and world.
At Holy Family, we believe
An Inquiry is
An inquiry is not
Engaging
Inspiring
Motivating
Interesting
Reflective
Challenging
Sparks curiosity
Challenges thoughts
Learning to learn
Differentiated – needs, wants, interests
A process
Connected and integrated through the curriculum
An approach
High oral language
Driven by big questions, wonderings or statements.
Has overarching understandings
Deepens learning
Student-directed
Teacher facilitated through reflection, tracking and questioning
Explicit teaching of skills and processes.
Giving answers
Teacher lead
Worksheets
Teacher focused
Quiet
Neat
Teachers ticking curriculum boxes
Everyone doing the same thing
Focussed on an end product
Copying from books
Topic-based units where everyone learns the same thing
Planned thoroughly from start to finish before students start.
