Student Voice

At Armstrong Creek School, we recognise the importance of play in children’s lives. As a school, we have worked hard to promote positive and quality play opportunities. We believe that play is at the very heart of our development of child initiated learning, and we have a responsibility to ensure that everyone has sufficient time and space to explore and participate in a range of play activities as part of their education and in pursuit of developing the whole child.

The school playground has been designed to support the engagement of all students during lunchtime through the provision of a number of different zones or spaces that are used for different purposes. During playtimes, our students also have the opportunity to join one of many lunchtime clubs or activities on offer. These clubs and activities support students in socialising within different groups, enjoying and learning new skills or try something new. 

Our challenge is to develop these lunchtime activities each year through the use of available resources, in particular human resources. We currently have a number of indoor (passive) and outdoor (active) play areas.

Our teachers and support staff at Armstrong Creek School dedicate their lunchtimes to running the clubs for interested students, providing places where they can feel connected and be part of a group which share similar interests. We are fortunate at Armstrong Creek School to have such dedicated, enthusiastic and talented staff at our school, and who are willing to share their time, skills and expertise with our students.

In order to promote student voice at our school, students have been making suggestions about which clubs they would like to see operating during Recess and Lunch play. They were asked to write about the purpose of the clubs, and explain how these clubs will benefit many students, and propose what resources they would need to run these clubs. 

The SRC plays an active role in supporting their peers during these recess and lunch time clubs. Members of SRC have been involved in group discussions about the role of SRC members in clubs and came up with ideas on how to help their peers as well as the staff.  

There are a number of activities and clubs available to students to participate in this term:

1. Board Games and Lego
2. Indoor Sports Club
3. Social Club
4. Movie Club
5. Performing Arts – Dance and Dress up
6. Bike and Skateboarding
7. Tech Club with a focus on robotics and coding
8. Gardening and Wood tech club
9. Arts and Craft Club 

If you have any resources at home that you don’t use, and which you think the above clubs might like to make use of, could you please deliver these to the front office (table in the foyer) to help us run a more effective club program. We are in urgent need of anything that you think will support the school in running of the clubs.