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This Is Us! - Back to School Team Building Activity
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This Is Us! - Back to School Team Building Activity

Build a strong sense of classroom community with This Is Us! – Together We Make a Great Team. This interactive back-to-school activity helps students introduce themselves, share their strengths, and discover connections with their classmates. The set includes a vibrant classroom banner and student worksheets, where children fill out their name, skills, favourite things, and something unique about them. Once completed, the worksheets can be displayed under the banner to create a classroom unity wall, reinforcing a supportive and inclusive learning environment.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to identify the skills of cooperating, collaborating and negotiating, why they are important and how to recognise them in a variety of scenarios.
  • We are learning to seek, give, or deny permission respectfully when sharing possessions or personal space.
  • We are learning to practise strategies for seeking, giving, or denying permission respectfully.
  • We are learning to plan, rehearse, and reflect on strategies to cope with different changes and transitions, including those associated with puberty.
  • We are learning to make connections between our emotions, feelings and how we respond to them as actions or reactions.
  • We are learning to investigate how the portrayal of societal roles and responsibilities can be influenced by gender stereotypes.
  • We are learning to describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships.
  • We are learning to describe and implement strategies to value diversity in our communities.
  • We are learning to use personal and social skills to interact.
  • We are learning to investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength by recognising and comparing different emotional reactions to various situations.
  • We are learning to recognise how media and important people in the community influence our personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours.

Curriculum alignment

PD3-10 old Selects and uses interpersonal skills to interact respectfully with others to promote inclusion and build connections PD3-9 old Applies and adapts self- management skills to respond to personal and group situations PD3-8 old Creates and participates in physical activities to promote healthy and active lifestyles PD3-7 old Proposes and implements actions and protective strategies that promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active spaces PD3-6 old Distinguishes contextual factors that influence health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity which are controllable and uncontrollable PD3-2 old Investigates information, community resources and strategies to demonstrate resilience and seek help for themselves and others PD2-10 old Demonstrates a range of interpersonal skills that build and enhance relationships and promote inclusion in various situations PD2-9 old Demonstrates self- management skills to respond to their own and others’ actions PD2-3 old Explains how empathy, inclusion and respect can positively influence relationships PDe-2 old Identifies people and demonstrates protective strategies that help keep themselves healthy, resilient and safe PDe-3 old Communicates ways to be caring, inclusive and respectful of others PDe-9 old Practises self-management skills in familiar and unfamiliar scenarios PDe-10 old Uses interpersonal skills to effectively interact with others PD2-2 old Explains and uses strategies to develop resilience and to make them feel comfortable and safe PD2-1 old Explores strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change
VCHPEP093 Investigate how emotional responses vary in family situations and in friendship groups VCHPEP060 Practise personal and social skills to interact with others VCHPEP111 Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Provide a template with sentence starters for younger students or those needing additional support.
•    Offer a digital version for students who prefer typing their responses.
•    Use visual aids or symbols for younger learners and students with special needs.

Extensions

•    Pair students up to interview each other and complete each other’s worksheets.
•    Use responses to create a class book celebrating each student’s uniqueness.
•    Revisit the activity mid-year to see how students’ interests and skills have evolved.

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