Classroom News

House Activities Tomorrow - Thursday 28th March

Activities will be run tomorrow (in class) as part of our end of term House Event. This is being run by the SRC Reps and Year 6 House Captains. Students are welcome to wear house colours for the day.

Harmony Day  - Wrap Up

On Friday the 22nd March, APS celebrated Harmony Day with whole school activities. 

Every year, Harmony Week is celebrated in March, to celebrate and recognise our diversity and bring together Australians from all different background. It's about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone.

On the day, many of our students dressed up in orange to make the occasion, and everyone participated in a fun cross-level activity to learn more about Australia’s diversity, and collaborate with peers across the school.

• The Foundation and Year 3 classes worked together to create huge paper chains- they worked together to decorate strips of paper with their ideas about ‘harmony’ and then joined the strips into a super long chain.
• The Year 1s collaborated with the Year 5s to design their dream ‘multicultural food truck’. They discussed their favourite foods, talked about dishes that might be traditional for their families, and then designed a festival food truck that sells all their favourite goodies!
• The Year 2s and Year 4s combined their ideas to create some beautiful mosaic artworks. After learning that mosaics are used in a lot of different cultures around the world, they worked together to design and put together their own paper art.
• The Year 6s linked Harmony with Geography, and created a giant map of the world, marked with geographic locations of their family and ancestors. 

Throughout the week, specialist teachers have been further immersing our students in Harmony Week. Michael worked with the Foundation to Grade 3 students to create a passport which showed their connections to places around the world. Gosh, we are so connected to the wide world! The Year 4-6 students explored what culture and diversity means, and created street-art graphics of words/statements that represent ‘harmony’ and ‘acceptance’. Mengyue helped the students to create a ‘Harmony Dragon’, made of outlines of hands, filled with ‘hello’ written in multiple different languages. Haylee and Christy have been singing up a storm with the whole school, learning a song that was sung ‘in harmony’ at assembly on Friday.  

Well done to everyone for coming together, having lots of fun across the school and celebrating our wonderful and diverse backgrounds.