WELCOME BACK Resource: Lower Primary
The WELCOME BACK Resource: Lower Primary is designed to support younger students as they ease into the new school year. This resource helps them reflect on their personal experiences, understand the importance of kindness and inclusion, and build connections with classmates.
Educational Benefits:
• Encourages foundational self-reflection and understanding.
• Promotes empathy and inclusion among young students.
• Supports social-emotional growth through simple, guided activities.
Highlights:
• Foundational Questions: Simplified questions focusing on what it means to feel welcomed and how to care for others.
• Community Building: Activities centred around kindness, making friends, and ensuring everyone feels included.
• Heartfelt Reflection: Encourages students to express how they can open their hearts to new friends and play inclusively.
How to Use:
• Distribute the lower primary version to your class.
• Guide students through the prompts as a whole class or individual activity during the first week of school.
• Display completed reflections to create a welcoming classroom environment.
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 investigate our own family structure and understand that other families in the community may look different.
- 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 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 describe our personal qualities and those of others, and explain how they contribute to developing our identities.
Curriculum alignment
Describe their personal qualities and those of others, and explain how they contribute to developing identities
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.