Learning and Teaching 

Questioning

A core part of our curriculum is Critical and Creative thinking developing our students questioning, reasoning and metacognitive skills. The Victorian Curriculum describes our teaching of questioning as:

“the basis for all effective learning, providing a structure for inquiry-based approaches to teaching. Teachers help students understand the fundamental role that questions and questioning play in enabling learning and developing a learning disposition is a necessary condition for deep learning.”

Across our learning communities, the students have been developing questions about their Inquiry learning. The teachers immersed the students in activities that lead to wondering and questioning. 

In the Year 1/2 community, the children have discussed living and non-living, took part in a mindfulness walk outside using their 5 senses to discover what is around them and completed a Know, Wonder and Learn (KWL) chart with a partner about their thinking so far. The learning community then developed questions they would like to investigate further and displayed these on their wondering wall. Across the term, the teachers and students will investigate and find the answers to these questions, as well as developing further questions.

The Year 3/4 Community are investigating the scientific concepts of force and motion, and change in states. The students were immersed in the inquiry through experiments in their learning space as well as an incursion focusing on Solids, Liquids and Gases and Chemical reactions/changes. After these experiences, the students discussed what science was in the experiences as well as any questions that arose for them that they would like to investigate further. These questions will be returned to across the term. 

Deborah Courtney

Director of Learning and Teaching