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 🙂