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28 Apr 2024In the Junior School, we are always interested in feedback from the students about their academic journey and school life. We recently surveyed all the students from Foundation to Year 5 and gathered some interesting commentary.
- Mathematics, Reading, and Art topped the polls for favourite homeroom subjects.
- Overwhelmingly the students love group activities, collaborating, interactive online apps and quizzes.
- PE and Music are a hit with the students in general.
- They love their Inquiry time when they get to explore interesting topics and would like more time to do this.
Our students feel their classrooms are an enjoyable place to learn where they feel confident to answer questions and supported when they need help.
Today, the Junior School held its first student parliament session for 2024, where all our student leadership teams came together to explore the following two questions regarding AISM:
What’s working well? What could we do better?
It was incredible to hear from our students from Foundation through to Year 5 on these questions.
Some of their thoughts:
- “People are playing well together on the playground and getting along with each other.”
- “I see my friends helping me.”
- “My camp was amazing! It’s the first time I have been away from my family for a long time. I was brave and so independent.”
- “I have enjoyed joining this school and making so many new friends.”
- “It’s nice to hear people using their manners in the Canteen line.”
- “I wonder if the food prices could be lower?”
- “Do you think there could be more froyo topping options?”
- “We could have a 100 storey tree house for everyone to play together.”
- “Playtime could be longer.”
- “Could we offer language games during break times?”
- “Can we make our uniforms more comfortable?”
We then gathered in our teams to explore our goals for this year and what they look like across each term. We made a plan!
School Captain’s Goals
- To see a happy Junior School.
- To start an award system for the Recipe Values with prizes and have music playing across the school to make us all feel good.
- All of our committees will work together to make AISM the best school ever!
House Captain’s Goals
- To lead CCAs
- To have active students with the launch of Thursday Sports
- Equipment will be easy to borrow and there will be lots of choices
Visible Learning Ambassador’s Goals
- Everyone will know what VL is by participating in monthly VL Challenges
- There will be a VL section of all Junior School Assemblies
- VL Ambassadors will be in classrooms helping others with their learning
Global Ambassador’s Goals
- Educate all community members about every celebration
- Celebrate beyond the classroom walls
- Focus on world issues
SRC’s Goals
- To make sure the Junior School is feeling happy
- Every class will have weekly SRC feedback/meeting sessions
- We will listen to everyone
Our students explored how they can
- Lead by example
- Inspire their peers
- Build school spirit
- Lead learning sessions
- Plan events
Student leadership is an important part of life at AISM and our students certainly were fabulous leaders in our parliament today!
Foundation have nearly completed Term 1 of formal schooling. Let’s see what they have been up to!
