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Welcome to Education Week Learning Together

Welcome to our exclusive student-created school newspaper, specially made for Education Week. This year’s theme for Education Week is called “Learning Together.” This newspaper will be a showcase and celebration of how we learn together at SPS. In the following pages, you will see some of the amazing work that each and every class has created this week, which has been collected and incorporated into this newsletter by 5/6B. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we all enjoyed creating it. Happy Education Week!

To me, ‘Learning Together’ means everybody being there helping, supporting, encouraging others and creating amazing things together. I believe SPS has done a spectacular job at learning through tough times. At SPS we learn together by incorporating everybody’s ideas and never leaving others out to create fabulous things. We’re always supporting and encouraging one another to have fun while learning together. - Isabel M

Learning together is when we can share and add to our knowledge together with teamwork. When we learn together we can learn new concepts together. We can expand our knowledge together in a group and be a happy and healthy learner. - Kobe S

At Sylvania Public School, ‘Learning Together’ means taking in new concepts that we haven’t learnt, while having a fun time doing so within our groups or classes. Every student and teacher is all about ‘Learning Together.’ In every minute of every day, we are constantly learning together. - Brody L.

Learning together to me is enjoying time with friends at school in fun ways like group activities. Having friends at school makes everything more fun and enjoyable. Learning together gets you working with other people that might not be your greatest friend yet, but could eventually be a good lifelong mate. - Lucas S.

Learning together to me means to connect and bond with my friends, classmates and teachers and to learn completely new concepts and use teamwork to help others. - Ben O.

At Sylvania Public School, ‘learning together’ means having fun with your classmates and learning together in groups, sharing equipment with your classmates and sharing ideas between each other. Sylvania Public School has given us the opportunity by giving us time to work in groups and are nice enough to give us equipment to work with and also have fun. - Emma B.

Learning together means working together to solve problems. Learning together also means being kind when working together and being united as one. - Kobe D.

In 4/5X, we have worked together to find out what ‘Learning Together’ means to the students in KG.

In the process, we discovered what learning together also means to us. Learning together for us is a chance to interact with your friends and learn at the same time. If somebody makes a mistake people in your group can help and correct you, and we have also learnt that if you are in a group you can learn from your group members. It’s an opportunity to know more about each other. -Students of 4/5X

Ryan said that loves subtracting and Reading Eggs. He enjoys playing with his friends. His favourite cartoon character is Batman. Ryan said that he “loves to make new friends.” Oliver said he loves to make new friends and to learn about letters and 3D shapes. His favourite shape is a cube and his favourite cartoon character is Spider Man. He also loves watermelon. Yousif said he likes to help people and likes to count from 1 to 10.

Lina: “What do you like about learning with your friends?” Jack: “Yeah, it makes me help learn.”

Amy: “Do you like learning by yourself or in a group?” Claudia: “In a group because sometimes my brother’s leave me alone”

Beau: “What is your favourite activity?” Zoe: “I like maths”

Romeo: “What is your favourite thing at school? “ Piper: “Playing games and being a happy learner”

We have asked some Kindergarten students if they get excited when learning with friends. Antonia and Haylee both said YES. We also asked what the hardest thing about school was. Holly said, “which way the seven goes,” which made us smile. We asked them what they like doing with their friends. Ellie said, “playing with her friends.” Martin said, “playing handball.”

Lara: ‘Do you feel happy when the teacher says we are going to work in groups?’ Elizabeth: ‘Yes, sometimes groups or alone!’

Eloise: ‘Do you like learning together and why?’ Sienna Skye: ‘No, I like being alone when I work.’

Brooklyn: ‘What do you like learning?’ Peyton: ‘yes, I like math and I like spelling and free play. I like art and sport and Mathletics kind of. ‘

Alice: ‘Do you feel happy when your teacher says you will be working together?’ Noah: ‘No, I get shy when I’m around other people.’

Exploring Sound in 1H

In Science, 1H students are learning together and exploring how sounds are produced through vibrations. They have identified sounds in the environment and begun to investigate how high and low sounds are a product of different speeds of vibrations. As a group we tested out the theory of how sound is made by making a cup and string telephone. Students worked together building their ‘phones’ and had lots of fun discovering which worked better – loose or taut string.

KG And 1H Learning STEM Together

Throughout the year, Kindergarten and Year 1 students have enjoyed learning together with their combined STEM challenges. This week’s challenge was to make a Kazoo - linking their learning to a science unit on “sound”. They had a lot of fun and made a lot of noise!!

3C Creative Writing and Collaborative Activities

3C are enjoying learning about narrative writing. Here are some excerpts from their creative texts. They are very descriptive!

Here are some of the fabulous photos from collaborative activities.

Harrison, Will and Jordan

Dominic

Isabella

Savana

Forces are Fun and Crocodiles are Cool in 2E

2E enjoyed working together investigating Forces and Friction as part of their Science unit in Term 3. They used different materials to create a raceway ramp and test how this impacts the speed of a car as it rolls down. Here are some pictures of their investigation.

Year 2 having been reading and discussing The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl. The students have been learning about crocodiles and have enjoyed writing information reports using word documents in the computer room. They have also been drawing and writing about the life cycle of a crocodile. Here are some pictures and samples of their wonderful work!