Classroom News

Prep / Year 1 Concert - Tickets on sale now!!

The Prep and Year 1 students have begun excitedly rehearsing this Term for their School Concert - The Colour Monster - to be held at the Renaissance Theatre at Kew High School on Wednesday, 4th September at 7pm. Children need to be dropped to the Theatre at 6.30pm. We look forward to an awesome night.

Tickets are now on sale via Trybooking.

https://www.trybooking.com/CUJBU

Year 6 News - Gender Equality

Gender Equality Program

By Connor and Noah D - Leadership Team 

In the past couple of weeks, the Preps and Year Ones have been participating in a gender equality program, run by our school leaders.

Each leader grouped in twos to share a slideshow and act out a play. The leaders all dressed up in costumes that are usually associated with one gender to show that everyone could do anything they wanted to.

For example, Evie dressed up as a tradie and Matt G was a ballet dancer. This showed that you can be anything. We created slideshows that had different pages to show examples of stereotypes specific for each gender. This helped the Preps and Year Ones understand more about this topic. We also went in multiple times so that the message would stick in their heads and they will remember it for the playground and in the future. 

Before all of this happened, we gave out sheets of paper and asked students to draw different people working everyday jobs, then we analysed if they drew this particular person as a male or female. And they did! 

At the end we plan to do this same activity to see if they have changed their opinions e.g  a ballet dancer can be a male and a doctor can be female.We’ll let you know how that goes!

Here is a video that we shared with the Preps and Year Ones.

Stereotypes for kids - What are stereotypes? (youtube.com)

Nude Food

Hello Alphington Primary School parents,

Our action team has decided that we have seen too many plastic wrappers in the bins and out in the yard. We decided to pick on a random grade and found a total of  170 pieces of plastic. That’s way too much. 

Our action team has decided to make it stop. From now on we have a challenge for students to reduce the amount of rubbish in the bins. 

Every Tuesday for the rest of Term 3 we will come around to classes, before recess, to check all the food that is nude food and whoever has the most nude food will get a certificate! We hope that you can support us with this by helping your child pack a nude food!

Thank You Bye!

Connor, Lucas & Noah S

Nude Food Action Team