Sailing Into Summer Reflection Activity
The Sailing Into Summer Reflection Activity is designed to help students look back on their school year and reflect on their favourite memories, key learnings, and aspirations for the future. This engaging end-of-year activity fosters self-awareness, celebrates student growth, and sets the tone for continued learning. Students complete boat-themed templates and share their reflections, creating a vibrant classroom display for the final days of school or as a welcoming visual for the incoming class.
Educational Benefits:
• Promotes self-reflection and awareness.
• Reinforces social-emotional learning by allowing students to identify and articulate their growth.
• Encourages goal-setting for the upcoming year.
How to Use:
• Distribute the Sailing Into Summer templates to students.
• Guide students to fill out their templates with their favourite memory, a significant skill they learned, and an area for improvement next year.
• Collect and display the completed templates on a bulletin board using titles such as "Anchors Aweigh - Our Year at Sea" or "Navigating Through Learning".
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify some familiar texts and their purpose, such as symbols (exit signs, school crossings, badges), stories and informative texts.
- We are learning to identify the people in our family, e.g. mother, father, grandparent, where they were born and raised and the relationships between family members.
- We are learning to investigate our own family structure and understand that other families in the community may look different.
- We are learning to discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in a range of texts.
- We are learning to understand the differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time.
- We are learning to discuss and identify similarities and differences between the same topic presented in different types of texts.
- We are learning to understand the history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past.
- We are learning to recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences, e.g. different language choices for children and adults.
- We are learning to understand the celebrations and commemorations in places around the world (for example, Lunar New Year in countries of the Asia region), including those that are observed in Australia (for example, Christmas Day, ANZAC Day, NAIDOC Week, Diwali, Easter, Hanukkah, the Moon Festival and Ramadan).
- We are learning to identify, discuss and compare the language features of historical and contemporary texts with similar purposes and their portrayal of events.
- We are learning to understand the nature of contact between First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion.
- We are learning to identify how success, challenge, setbacks and failure help to strengthen our resilience, our capabilities and who we are.
- We are learning to describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created.
- We are learning to understand the influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place.
- We are learning to identify and explore news reports, discuss the language and points of view of the writers and analyse display advertising for the ways images and words are combined for deliberate effect.
- We are learning to understand the geographical diversity of the Asia region and the location of its major countries in relation to Australia.
- We are learning to explain how identities can be influenced by people and places and how we can create positive self-identities.
Curriculum alignment
AC9HS3K02
9
Significant events, symbols and emblems that are important to Australia’s identity and diversity, and how they are celebrated, commemorated or recognised in Australia, including Australia Day, Anzac Day, NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day, Easter, Christmas, and other religious and cultural festivals
AC9HP6P01
9
Explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities
AC9HS6K04
9
The geographical diversity and location of places in the Asia region, and its location in relation to Australia
AC9E6LY01
9
Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
AC9HS5K04
9
The influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place
AC9E5LY01
9
Describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created
AC9HP4P01
9
Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts
AC9HS4K04
9
The effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion
AC9E4LY01
9
Compare texts from different times with similar purposes and audiences to identify similarities and differences in their depictions of events
AC9EFLY01
9
Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose
AC9E3LY01
9
Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
AC9HS2K01
9
A local individual, group, place or building and the reasons for their importance, including social, cultural or spiritual significance
AC9E2LY01
9
Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts
AC9HS1K01
9
Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time
AC9E1LY01
9
Discuss different texts and identify some features that indicate their purposes
AC9HPFP01
9
Investigate who they are and the people in their world
AC9HSFK01
9
The people in their family, where they were born and raised, and how they are related to each other
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.