From the AP Teaching & Learning
Dear Families
Term 2 Future Focused Learning: Global Citizenship
During Term 2, students across our school are engaging in our Future Focused Learning Global Challenge, with a focus on Global Citizenship. This learning invites students to think deeply about our overriding question of ‘How can small actions lead to big changes?’
Through age appropriate lines of inquiry, students are exploring what it means to belong to local and global communities, how people are connected, and how their choices and actions can positively impact others and the world around them.
Across year levels, teachers have designed learning using the 4Cs framework – Curiosity, Connection, Communication and Creation, aligning learning areas such as English, HASS, Health, The Arts and Religious Education to the global concept of Global Citizenship.
• Curiosity:
Students are questioning and investigating global and local issues, exploring ideas about fairness, responsibility, sustainability, and belonging. Provocations such as stories, songs and real world examples invite students to wonder how individuals and communities create change.
• Connection:
Learners are making connections between their own lives and the wider world, linking personal experiences with global perspectives and understanding how people, places and actions are interconnected.
• Communication:
Students are sharing their learning through discussions, presentations, collaborative tasks and digital platforms, developing their ability to express ideas, listen to others and respond thoughtfully.
• Creation:
Learning is brought together through purposeful creations such as written texts, visual displays, projects, performances and action based responses that show student understanding and voice.
We have a strong emphasis on empowering student voice, action and leadership. Students are encouraged to see themselves as active global citizens who can contribute to their communities in meaningful ways, reinforcing that even small, thoughtful actions can have a positive impact.
As the term progresses, families will see evidence of this learning shared through classroom documentation and student created work, celebrating curiosity, creativity and a growing sense of responsibility toward others. Some classes also have excursions/incursions planned which will help students to try and make a change to the world they are part of.
Premiers Reading Challenge
A reminder that if your child is participating in the reading challenge this year that R-2 students will read the books at school with the teachers completing the forms.
Students in Year 3-6 will need to complete the challenge at home and complete the forms to their class teacher as soon as they have read the required number of books.
I would like to leave you with this message from Pope Francis which links to our term 2 Global Concept.
“We are stewards, not masters of our earth. Each of us has a personal responsibility to care for the precious gift of God’s creation.”
Kind regards,
Melinda James