2023 Education Week

Celebrating physical activity, hands-on learning and student voice in education

Education Week is an annual celebration of education in Victoria.

This year Victoria celebrated Education Week from Sunday 14 May to Saturday 20 May.

This year’s theme was ‘Active Learners: Move, Make, Motivate’, which celebrated physical activity, hands-on learning and student voice in education.

We were very happy to highlight Education Week, especially this theme, which affirmed all we do. Education Week is really is no different to our everyday Wollert philosophy of learning. Our daily homeroom activities and programs are designed to harness physical and hands-on activity. Student voice is particularly important to us.

Our students experience this through our weekly programs: Physical Education, Fitness Friday, Senior Sport, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Playscape, Dig2Dine, STEM and Digital Technologies. 

For Education Week, teams simply focused on one of the aspects that we do in our daily practice each day to highlight and amplify. Every day is Education Week at Wollert.

EDUCATION FOR ALL - our Curriculum Day focus

Day one of this term was spent on learning, but not directly for our students. Ensuring our staff are continually strengthening and growing their knowledge and skills together is just important to us as our student learning.

We are extremely fortunate to have educators that are invested in their professional learning, with the intent to transfer this to the best teaching practice possible. 

The first half of our day took us deep diving into Student Voice and Agency. This was followed by a Maths focus, in line with our Annual Improvement Plan Goals. 

Here is a little glimpse of the Student Voice and Agency understandings we are developing together.

STUDENT VOICE and AGENCY

Students are empowered in their learning and their lives when given meaningful opportunities for student voice, agency and leadership.Young people who find their own voice in supportive school environments are more likely to develop a confident voice, a capacity to act in the world, and a willingness to lead others. By empowering students we enhance student engagement and enrich their participation in the classroom, school and community. As educators we play an active role in helping students ‘own’ their learning and development, by creating a positive climate for learning.

Our teachers are actively exploring how we can bring both voice and agency  to the forefront of all we do. When we achieve this, we know we will have resilient, self-aware students who embrace their learning stories to the full.