Leadership Centre

Curriculum

Hai,

It was another busy yet wonderful week in the Leadership Centre! Although we find ourselves in another lockdown, we stay positive and know that all students will put in their best efforts during Remote Learning. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all families for their continued support.

Our Wellbeing focus last week was to explore ways in which we could recognise emotions through observing others body language. Within classes, we discussed and unpacked what the term ‘body language’ means and co-constructed a class definition. With this, students shared their thoughts and ideas as to why it is important to be mindful of others' body language and made meaningful connections with our Zones of Regulation Program. Students identified certain body cues, reactions and signals that may be useful in helping us understand how someone may be feeling or when someone is beginning to move out of the Green Zone. We then put this into practise with a fun charades game where students were tasked to act out a particular emotion. We found that some emotions were quite tricky to communicate through body language and facial gestures only but it tuned us all into what the emotion may look like and how it could look different from person to person.

In Maths, students participated in learning experiences dedicated to both Chance and Multiplication topics. To start the week, students engaged in a chance and data investigation around rolling a dice with and without whispering ‘roll me a six!’ to it. Using tables and graphs, students record and displayed the observable data and compared this with the expected data. In addition, we explored the 'Gambler's Fallacy' which highlights the difference between independent and dependent events. Whilst students completed the investigation with a partner, they also spent time working with teachers in small Guided Learning groups, focusing on describing probabilities using fractions, decimals and percentages, ordering everyday events occurring to their

probability, as well as identifying complementary events by applying the sum of probability. In addition, students participated in Master Class sessions to build their understanding of strategies used to find the product of two numbers and explored finding the highest common factor and lowest common multiple.

In Reading sessions this week students began exploring and analysing the story of “The Burnt Stick” - a story of a young Australian indigenous boy, John Jagamarra. Students made predictions and inferences from the details in the blurb and the illustrations of the front cover and then began analysing particular words, quotes and phrases from the text. An important part of our Guided Reading sessions was for students to express the emotions, feelings and connections they made to different parts of the text. The text provides a powerful storyline for students to engage in rich, historical learning opportunities.

In our Writing sessions this week students continued working on their second set of debates. With feedback from the first round based around improving rebuttals and research there was a strong focus on ensuring students provided additional detail to back up their rebuttal argument and to ensure students were using reputable websites to record their evidence in their own words. We look forward to finishing these final set of debates when we can get back to school.

This semester, Students in the Leadership Centre have the opportunity to complete important tasks in the Student Garden. We thoroughly enjoyed the Kitchen aspect of the program as we got to cook deliciously wonderful food with Bu Mundy and we are now looking forward to the semester ahead where we can plant and harvest vegetables and assist with the maintenance of our beautiful garden!

A message from our Sports Leaders

Last week on Friday, the 5/6’s had their school athletics day. Everybody was really excited cheering on their house and classmates. Well done to all the students who participated and tried their hardest. Congratulations to the people who placed. We will find out who is going to district and in what event this week. District will be held on Wednesday the 25th of August. Thank you to the teachers and parents who helped out on the day. An extra big thank you to Mrs Butterworth and Miss Embry for organising such a successful event in such short notice.

-Coby

Sampai jumpa,

The Leadership Centre Team

Student Voice

Josiah - "Chance and multiplication is going to be fun working out different equations and using and learning new strategies to work out certain types of questions, related to multiplication and chance."
Ethan - "Debating was fun because I got to showcase my public speaking skill"
Ollie - "I am excited about learning what types of body language can and cannot be used to get a clearer understanding of it and how its used to communicate emotions."
Michael - "I enjoyed the shot put because it was challenging to try and beat everyone."
Josh - "My favourite event was the 4x100m circular relay because I got to compete with my friends."
Pearl - "I improved in shot put by throwing it further than I normally do."

Reminders

Students to check small group timetables
Literacy Zoom - daily at 9:30am
Maths Zoom - daily at 10:30am

ICAS

Please note, that both Writing and the Digital Technology ICAS assessments, originally scheduled for the 10th and 12th of August, have been postponed until Term 4. New dates will be communicated once they become available.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Matt O’Hern.

Matthew.O’Hern@education.vic.gov.au

Pupil of the Week

5/6B: Mehek G -

Well done Mehek, for demonstrating love of learning and zest when presenting your debate on why Uluru should be open to be climbed. You were prepared with your speech, recorded very thorough rebuttal notes and presented your speech powerfully to the opposition and audience. Congratulations.

5/6C: Alana B -

For writing an engaging and creative argument on why 'Remote Learning is better than On-site learning'. You listened to feedback and included evidence to support your opinions and were rebutted well against your opposing team. It was entertaining to listen to you and your team debate! A natural public speaker- keep it up Alana!

5/6SB: Russell Y -

For presenting an engaging debating speech on how we should not live on the moon. Russell, you spoke with a clear voice, presented strong arguments and rebuttals and maintained eye contact. Well done on your efforts!

5/6W: Ryan K -

For demonstrating a high level of dedication to improve your rebutting skills in our Debating unit. You displayed enthusiasm and creativity when partaking in activities related to 'off the cuff' speaking, especially in games of 'Rebuttal Tennis'. Great work, Ryan! Keep it up!