Where do you belong?

Good evening everyone,

Wow! What an amazing day our learning community had today, it was a pleasure to see how these young creative minds continue to wow us with their sense making of the world around them and witnessing their growing capabilities through all aspects of their learning.

Today we had the opportunity to meet Miss Echidna. Miss Echidna lives within our learning community, and is our symbol of our learning power, Belonging. Students had a ‘yarn’ about a couple of questions we posed them…

R/1MS and R/1EQ

Where do you belong?

Alexia – I belong at my house and my mum belongs with me

Nahom – I belong from India, my dad belongs from Australia my sister and mum belong from China

Annabelle – I belong to my mum and all my families

Bodhi – I belong at my home and I do Fortnite dances

Alexa – I belong at Australia and my mum belongs at Phillipines and my dad belongs at Cambodia

Bibi – I belong with my friends

Oliver – I be kind to my sister which helps me belong

Declan – I belong in Adelaide

Enrique – I belong in Adelaide

Nhial – I belong with my family

Zac – I belong in Australia where we live in a peace house have fun and clean up

Nyok – I belong in China, and I eat some China food

Alexander – I stay at home with my mum and dad playing mincraft

Charlee – I belong with mummy

Dhyani – I belong with mummy and daddy

Max – I belong with my family

Harper – I belong at home with mumma, nanna and my puppy

Who helps you learn?

Nhial – Parents and teachers

Nahom – My mum and dad help me to learn with my book

Hayley – God helps me to learn

Annabelle – My mum helps me to read

Alexander – My mum teaches me how to make pancakes

Arjan – Brothers and sisters will help you how to learn

Adum – My dad helps me read books

Charlize – My dad and my mum help me learn how to do study

Oliver – Teachers help you how to learn, and how to be good

Declan – My mum and nanna helps me to make pancakes

Elnathan – My mum and dad help me to write in my school books to help me learn hard, so I can grow up and do lots of writing

Annabelle – My mum helps me do homework

Nyok – My mum helps me to some work, some maths and some English

Adum – My dad helps me write

Mikayla – I like to learn by myself

Daemon – Miss Quigley and Mr Stramare help me to learn

 

R/1EN and R/1MC

What does belonging mean?

Dimi: Belonging means when you live with someone.

Yasha: Like putting the right things in order.

James: so you belong it makes you happy

Viraj: belonging is like a fruit.

Zahra: Belonging means it goes in that place

Sonny: Belonging means your family goes with you.

Who do we belong with?

Sierra: We belong with our family

Jacob: I belong with My Mum, My Baby brother, My Dad and my sister.

Sahib: I belong with My Mum.

Ishpreet: I belong with My Mum and Dad.

Vidal: I belong in my house.

Kalil: I belong with my brothers and my Mum and Dad.

Jed: I belong with My Dad and my Brothers

Kiet: I belong with My Mum, My Dad and my sisters and my brothers.

Jordan: I belong with My mum and My Dad and my brother and my dog.

Sonny: You can live with your grandpa and grandma

Dimi: you can belong at school, like your sister, your teacher, your friend.

Isabella: I can belong with my teacher.

Sierra: We can belong with our friends.

Vidal: I belong on holidays

Kalil: I feel safe at school so I feel I belong.

James: I belong with my cousin like my cousin next door.

Jacob: I belong in a basketball team

Viraj: I belong in football team.

Hendrix: I belong in a soccer team.

Jordan: I belong soccer team called Parafield’s Knights

Dimi: I belong in my netball team called Firecrackers.

Sierra: I belong in my cheer

Sahib: Our hopping mouse belong in our classroom

Belonging Description as per the Clara Learning Emergence Framework

This dimension is about how much I feel part of a ‘learning community’, a group with a shared commitment to learn, improve and do better, whether at school, at work, at home or in my wider community. It’s about the confidence I gain from knowing there are people around me whom I learn well with and to whom I can turn when I need guidance, support and encouragement in my learning journey.

Students then used their 100 languages of learning to recreate and represent Miss Echidna how they wanted too 🙂 They then moved into their played based investigations where students used their learning powers of creativity, curiosity and belonging. Have a look at the amazing creations below 🙂

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