Student Voice
Marvellous Morning Tea
On Friday 20 March, our wonderful Student Voice Leaders hosted Mitcham’s very first Marvellous Morning Tea! Each class from Prep to Year 5/6 enjoyed a special celebration, with students bringing along treats to share and contributing a gold coin donation to support the purchase of new sports equipment.
Thanks to their fantastic efforts, our leaders raised just over $400! We are incredibly proud of their initiative—it was a fun and meaningful way to bring our school community together while supporting a great cause.
Feedback Sessions
An important responsibility of our Student Voice Leaders is to provide valuable feedback to teachers about their learning experiences. During Planning Week, leaders from Prep to Year 5/6 met with their teachers to share their thoughts, responding to a series of questions about what they enjoy most in their learning and what they would like to see more of in the classroom.
These conversations are always incredibly insightful, offering our teachers a meaningful opportunity to connect with students and better understand their perspectives.
Please see the table below for a summary of what each year level discussed!
Prep
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
Drawing, Making my Number Book, Craft activities (Easter hat), Reading, STEM.
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
Using materials in maths to help us learn (counters, teddies, blocks), Pevan and Sarah helps us with songs to remember new information such as counting, reading and learning our numbers and letters, Pair-Share
3. When do you feel most successful in your learning?
P.E., Inquiry, Maths and starting to learn about Reading and Writing. We still want to work on colouring in the lines.
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
Working with a partner, listening to quiet music, having a timer on the board, having a dot to sit on, sitting on a different table next term to meet new people
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
More reading as a class, more movement in our lessons, InitiaLit, AUSLAN
Grade 1
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
Ancient Egypt - learning lots about it and going to a different classroom
Writing - writing stories
Doing tests -
Maths games - Place Value War, Mastermind
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
Learning numbers
Maths Games
Using mini whiteboards
When do you feel most successful in your learning?
Writing - it helps us learn new words and to read better
Maths - learning lots about calculations
Teachers who listen and good feedback
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
Looking at the screen
Spots on the floor
Quiet classroom, quiet music, lights off
Sitting with people who don’t distract you
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
Learning some new tricky words
All the maths - place value
Writing - learn some new writing types
Learning outside
More class rotations - maybe mix up classes
Grade 2
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
Maths: I like the times tables in Maths (when I’m doing my challenge work!) Games like Mastermind are also fun to play!
Art and writing: I like writing stories.
Music and Writing: I like the jungle writing (when we got given a prompt to write about)
Maths: Time. Using the mini clocks
Maths: When we made our names out of the unifix and the MAB materials.
Maths: MAB blocks to create animals and then working out their numbers in place value form!
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
When we do the skip counting by 5s and 10s
When we use our whiteboards
Using things such as clocks
Using the MABS
Answering questions about Maths
Daily reviews
When do you feel most successful in your learning?
When we’re sharing our writing in the Author’s Chair!
Maths when I get answers right. Especially when we double check and explain how we got our answers!
Maths when I am using the MAB blocks
When my teacher shares my work, as I know that is because they are proud of me!
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
Focusing on the teacher and the work they are showing us to do.
Being quiet. Using whisper voices!
Brain breaks!!
Brain food. It gives your brain more energy and helps us do our best work.
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
We would like to do some Pokemon related maths! We’re interested in using them to show different groupings of numbers.
Chrome books: Maths games (NUMBOTS), harder Maths games,
Humanities - mini units!
More writing
We like when there is a prompt but also free choice.
The Round
Halliday Park fun day
Class party
Outdoor learning activity
Grade 4
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
- Independent reading
- Inquiry Rotations
- Free writing
- Jump strategy
- Visualising when the teacher reads
- Chromebook research
- Maths strategies
- Friendology Games
- Maths mindset
- Maths games
- My numeracy
- Athletics
- 3/4 sport
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
- Split strategy and jump
- Multiplication game
- Lessons with other classes
- Modelling writing (revising and editing)
- SEEDS
- Partner activities
- Mindfulness at beginning of the day
- Work buddies
- 5 minute yoga
- Outside brain breaks
- Eating outside
- Cohort connections
- Mini Whiteboards
When do you feel most successful in your learning?
- Learning new information
- Times tables
- Friendolgy
- Demonstrating on whiteboard
- Modelling on the floor
- Teacher using document camera
- Inferring
- Challenged
- Double checking work
- When everyone's focussed
- Active listening
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
- Active listening
- Quiet learning environment
- Headphones
- Turn off the lights
- Calming music
- Quiet classroom
- Turn off the lights
- Working with work buddy
- Independent working
- Changing table partners
- Quiet transitions
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
- Researching
- Writing stories
- FCW
- Hands on work in maths
- Special events
- Chromebooks
- Scratch garden
- Character descriptions
- Author’s chair
- Vertical multiplication
- Information reports
- Maths
- Breaks
- FCW
- ART
- Library x 2
- Maths games
- Independent reading
- Wordsearches
- Harder maths
- Chromebooks
Grade 5/6
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
-narrative writing
-figurative language - similes
-music- instruments
- crosstitch (art)
- beep test (PE)
- vertical algorithms and strategies in Maths
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
- brain breaks
- math games - race to 1000.
- learning games
- brain food
Learning outside
When do you feel most successful in your learning?
- writing- stories- written a lot
- explicit modelling in maths and then leveled questions
- when my book is neat
- I have a great idea in writing- WN creations/ drawings/ pictures
- More than one page in maths
- Poetry
- Explain on the screen
- Getting it right and practising lots
- Mini whiteboard
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
- using computers/ typing on it/researching
- brain breaks-> longer than
- fidgets
- discussions with partners/ partner work.
- Quiet work space
- Relaxing music
- Mini whiteboard
Solo work
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
- eat brain food whenever
- projects in learning that we can focus on
- History of the world
- Big posters with a group
- Book work
- Cooking
- Craft activities
- Presentations/show and tell
- Group work
- games
Other:
- pay for icy poles with digital money…
- Soccer nets/cricket pitch
Montessori
What have you enjoyed learning the most this term?
Math work! The Snake Game, Dot Game, fractions and mental maths. Also project work and learning about words with the Word Sorts.
What activities or lessons help you learn best?
Using the materials for lots of practise helps best. Also when I can focus. It helps when it's quiet and working outside.
When do you feel most successful in your learning?
When I have finished a job and it was hard work! When I master a job and the learning. When I finish my learning and check the answers and I have been able to get them all right!
What helps you stay focused and do your best work?
It helps when temperature is right and having a drink. It also helps when it's quiet and I’m working on my own, especially when working towards mastering my math facts and spelling.
What would you like to do more of in your learning?
Maths and geometry! Measurement, angles, fractions. All of it! Also language work like Word Sorts, lots of writing and reading books.
Ash Moore
Grade 2 Teacher