Spotlight on Learning

REEF - Stage 2

This week in Reef, we have learned how to write engaging persuasive texts based on the story of Wandi the Dingo. Students discovered their love for dingoes after reading Wandi by Favel Parrett, watching informative videos about dingo sanctuaries, and listening to a range of podcasts highlighting the importance of dingoes to Australian culture.

Students have constructed texts, progressing through a planning phase and moving into drafting, editing, and finally publishing. They experimented with persuasive devices such as facts and evidence, high-modality language, and rhetorical questions. Here is a sample from one of our students:

 

Emma A:

"Firstly, we should definitely have a fundraiser and use the money to help protect dingoes in sanctuaries. For example, our donations can help fund more dingo volunteers to rescue abandoned and injured wild dingoes (like Wandi). This means that more dingoes will be safe in the sanctuaries. Therefore, we must have a fundraiser to save the dingoes."

 

Cross-curricular artworks

As part of deepening our understanding of the history unit on Celebrations and Commemorations, Reef 1 students have been creating pencil artworks depicting notable events for each month of the year. 

Reef 2 and 3 students have engaged in creating linear perspective artworks, connecting to their studies of three-dimensional objects.