WELCOME BACK Resource: Upper Primary
The WELCOME BACK Resource: Upper Primary is designed to help older students transition smoothly into the new school year by reflecting on past experiences, setting goals, and fostering connections within the classroom. This resource is perfect for starting the school year with a focus on community, kindness, and personal growth.
Educational Benefits:
• Encourages self-reflection and goal-setting.
• Promotes empathy and inclusivity in the classroom.
• Helps students build stronger social connections with peers.
Highlights:
• Reflection Prompts: Engage students with questions about their holidays, what they are excited to learn, and goals for the year.
• Memory Sharing: Encourage students to recall their best memories from the previous year and share them with the class.
• Kindness and Inclusion: Prompts on how to welcome new classmates and show kindness throughout the year.
How to Use:
• Distribute the upper primary version to your class.
• Guide students through the prompts during the first week of school as a group or individual activity.
• Display students' completed reflections on a bulletin board to build a welcoming classroom atmosphere.
Learning goals
- 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 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 discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in a range of texts.
- 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
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.