Learning Agreement

The Children have been working with the learning agreements for the past 2 terms. The learning agreement encourages children to take control of their own learning. The learning tasks on the agreements have been workshopped and further covered in target teaching sessions as required. The children are eager to share their learning with you. Please feel free to look over this terms learning agreements and discuss the learning with your children.

The children are also selecting, reflecting and publishing their pieces of conferenced work at the moment. These pieces will be available to be shared in your child's portfolio.

The children are recording their personal narratives onto an ipod. These stories will be uploaded onto our blog and eventually the children's individual ultranet profiles. This ongoing process with continue into early next term.

Inquiry: Telling Stories

This term the Grade 2 Neighbourhood are exploring stories and the different ways in which stories can be told. As part of the first learning agreement some children chose to tell a story through images. The children planned their story and drew sketches in their inquiry books before drawing with felt tip pens and painting in watercolours. We all interpret stories differently, what story do you think the children are telling though their paintings?

We invite all parents to come in and have a look at what the children have been creating.

In the drama space the children were given the opportunity to tell a story through either a play or a puppet show. The children had to write a script and then practise their performance before presenting to the teachers, a small group and/or the whole class.

Learning Agreements

Today the children took home their Learning Agreements. Although some finished all the activities, it is not necessary for them to complete them all. It is the effort that is put into the learning tasks that is most important. We would encourage parents to discuss and write a brief comment on their first learning agreement.

Please bring your Learning Agreement to school.

Our New Learning Agreement V2

After much discussion, we have altered the Learning Agreement:

Learning agreement - number one V2

Our first Learning Agreement

Learning agreement - number one