Years 5/6 Honours Class commitments to the Honours Program. The students commenced their own History program this semester, with a focus on minority groups within Australian society during the 19th and 20th centuries. With the help of Mrs Schinckel, our resident Teacher Librarian, the curriculum has been specifically designed for the Senior Honours class and runs parallel to the other year levels.
our Honour students matched with a Year 1 pupil, spending 45 minutes a week engaging in fun reading, writing and literacy activities. Our Reading Buddies program gives the older students the opportunity to develop fluency as well as a sense of pride in the accomplishments achieved by their younger comrades. In addition, they have come to see the value of reading themselves, developing a love of reading and a greater motivation to read both at school and at home. We escalated the students’ teaching from learning to read to assisting them with the development of their writing and creating PowerPoint presentations. The boys seem to thoroughly enjoy their time with the little ones and have taken their responsibility to teach these boys very seriously.
The students have shown great determination and commitment to their studies this year and should be very proud of their achievements. It has been a wonderful yet challenging year and I can’t wait to unleash bigger and better things for the Honours Program in 2015.
Our Reading Buddies program continued with vigor in 2014 with
YEAR 5/6T HONOURS CLASS SEATED ROW:
O. DURHAM, V. WU, A. WIESE, S. LEDINGHAM, E. STANICH, D. SELBY, H. ALOYSIUS, L. FREE
SECOND ROW: H. JEANES-GRANT, N. PHILLIPS, O. TAYLOR, G. COLLINS, P. SOPHIOS, H. BENNETT, J. BOX, Z. CIROCCO, MR F. TREVETHAN THIRD ROW:
M. FUHRMANN, B. STEWART, K. KANEMURA, H. KNUDSEN, J. BROWN, N. MCKENZIE, L. CHABERT
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