Engagement & Wellbeing

 Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships

In Respectful Relationships, Grade 1/2 Rodda are learning about ‘Positive Coping’ and have been exploring the difference between calming and cheering coping strategies. 

We discussed how we all have times when we feel negative emotions like, sad, angry, lonely, frustrated or bored. However, we all have many coping strategies or things that can help us manage these too. We then discussed, how we can do things to calm ourselves down or cheer ourselves up.

The students moved to music in the way they thought the music was telling them to move. In a calm or cheerful way. We brainstormed why particular music and tone makes us feel different when we move to it.

We then discussed that some people listen to music or sing a song to calm down, to keep themselves brave, or to cheer themselves up. The students enjoyed moving to the music and discussing how we can use different coping strategies when we are feeling negative emotions.

Science Week

Over the past two weeks, classrooms have been full of fun and engaging experiments to celebrate Science Week. Students were able to explore a variety of interactive and thought-provoking activities such as, static electricity and why balloons make our hair stand up, creating invisible ink, ink water dancing people and oobleck. We then investigated the science behind these experiments. 

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge

There are just 18 days left in this year's Premiers' Reading Challenge. We have 156 students school wide who have completed the challenge, and we have now read almost 8000 books over the last 3 months. We are very close to the completion of the challenge, don't forget to keep logging your books!