Year 5 & 6 Incursion

BodyWorks

Our Year 5 and 6 students have participated in another year of Bodyworks: Health and Wellbeing with Amanda, focusing on empowering students to live happy, healthy and informed lives about the changes to their bodies. Students were equipped with skills and information to assist with making wise choices, and dealing more effectively with challenges they may encounter throughout their lives, based on their body’s functions and changes. Students were given hands-on activities, had opportunities to ask insightful questions, saw informative age-appropriate videos, and were given important resources explaining the different choices young people have as they grow. 

Student Comments 

"I enjoyed learning new words about our bodies, what they do and where they are."

- Student A

"Bodyworks was a great opportunity for students to learn about the mind and body and how to react when we have puberty. Without this experience, students like me would probably not understand our body’s signals. I adored our instructor, Amanda, who was patient and calm when some students were confused about their body parts."- Felicia

"I learnt about new body parts and their names." - Ridhima

"Learning the interesting facts about what is happening to my body and how it changes, will be better for me in the future." - Student B

"You can trust Amanda because she can tell you about your body changing. She will make you feel comfortable and not let you down." - Tina 

"I think Bodyworks was good. We learnt about our body parts and Amanda, our instructor, was very supportive and answered our questions." - Jasmyne 

"My experience was a bit different than usual. We learnt much more about the body since we were in Year 6." - Ethan

"I really enjoyed learning about how my body works, getting my questions answered by the instructor and learning facts I never knew. My favourite part was when we were asked to write the unofficial names of body parts." - Nadim

"I learnt about my body and how it grows. I also loved the game we did to learn about our bodies." - Max 

"I learnt about what each part does for my body." - Emily 

"I really like Bodyworks. We learnt about our bodies, the different names of the different parts and the different facts about these parts. We also learnt about what changes our bodies go through and what we can deal with it." - Akira

"Some of the topics were really interesting."  - Rachel 

"I enjoyed some of the activities such as the one where you get a word and you need to find the other person with the explanation. I feel like Bodyworks can also bring together friendship and harmony because of the group work. It was very fun." - Zoe

"At the stage, it was pretty weird but at the same time it was pretty cool!"  - Zayn 

If you would like further resources (books/ website) relating to these topics, please email Elizabeth Cleary via Compass.