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

Level 5/6