Junior School

The Junior School have dived straight into our current Inquiry focus with great gusto and enthusiasm!  On Friday 2 August, the Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students took part in an “Inquiry Immersion” day.  They explored several different topics to kick-start the upcoming term Inquiry focus. 

The first activity students took part in was identifying and discussing what makes something “living”, “non-living”, and “once-living”.  Students were presented with a range of images and asked to sort them out into categories.  Working in multi-aged groups, students were engaged and had fascinating conversations about the similarities and differences within the images they studied.

After Recess, students ventured outside to uncover the living and non-living things found within the school grounds.  Before beginning their schoolyard safari investigation, they drew images and/or wrote down the names of the things they expected (predicted) to see out in the yard.  Looking under leaves and up trees, beneath rocks and in the nooks and crannies of the playground, for creatures big and small.

Finally, students began a Baby Plant Project. Stay tuned for updates!

To follow up from our jam-packed day, on Monday 5 August, several very kind-hearted families provided some “test-subjects” (read: children between age 4 and newborn!) so that students could investigate how human beings change over time.  Students asked a series of questions about what children of different ages could do and asked for some hands-on demonstrations of various fine and major motor skills.