An important aspect of our classroom is how we connect our learning with the world. We want to make sure that our learning has meaning outside of our classroom walls. One of the ways we do this is by connecting… Continue Reading →

In HISTORY, we are learning about migration and immigration. We have been discussing at ‘push and pull factors’ and reading about different ways that people migrate to Australia. We are starting a project called ‘Migrant Stories’ where students have to… Continue Reading →

Once again, we will post our 100 word challenges to the blog this week. We will give feed back to each other through the week and post re-crafted version of our stories before the end of the week. It’s great… Continue Reading →

This year our buddy class is a group of brand new reception students. As we get to know them, we will be working toward preparing for an assembly at the beginning of next term. In preparation for this we have… Continue Reading →

Exploring current events can be tricky in the classroom. We want our students to be thinking critically about the world around them but ‘adult’ news clips are not always appropriate. ‘Behind the News’ is a long running news show designed… Continue Reading →

Each week, in our class, we undertake a 100 writing word challenge. Creating short pieces of regular creative writing has several purposes. It gives us an opportunity to build a bank of story ideas that we can draw on when… Continue Reading →

Welcome to the new school year! This year we are aiming to feature a blog post each week from one of our classrooms. There are lot’s of great things happening in our school and we look forward to sharing some of… Continue Reading →

This week we are posting our 100 word challenges to the blog so that we can give some feedback to each other. Please post your work as a comment on this post.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. We are a year 6/7 class in Adelaide, South Australia. We believe that we are a part of a global community and want to connect and learn with and from other… Continue Reading →

For the last couple of years, classes at Woodend have been using Edmodo as a platform for students communication, planning, collaboration and peer support. We have found it to be an important part of how we manage our classroom. As… Continue Reading →

Welcome to room 17 for 2017. We are looking forward to a fantastic year ahead and we can see from our first few days that our excellent students are going to achieve great things this year! We look forward to… Continue Reading →