Term 4 Week 2 As part of our education on Global Goal #16 – Peace and Justice, the Year 3s discussed the concept of fairness and the importance of having good values. We looked at situations where an unkind action, if not stopped, could repeat itself (bullying). We also learnt that kind actions would be…
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No Poverty – Year 4
The Year 4 students have been focussing heavily on Global Goal number 1: No Poverty. We started this journey by discovering exactly what poverty means. Each class played the “Living on 1 Dollar a day” role-play game. Students pretended they were living only 1 dollar a day. They ‘worked’ each day and couldn’t go to…
Global Goals – Year 6
6BS Goal: No Poverty Interviewed person: Zion Why: “Many people are not nourished enough and not fed, plus not everyone gets a fair meal.” 6CI Goal: Life Below Water Interviewed Person: Savi Why: “Marine life is disappearing faster than ever before and we humans need to do something about this soon or we will…
Clean Up Australia Day – Year 1
Hi Everyone! This week at TMPS we have been taking part in National Clean Up Schools to support Clean Up Australia Day. We have discussed the importance of taking care of our world and have learnt that everyone can start somewhere to save our world, ‘from little things, big things grow’ right? We had a…
Environmental Waste – Year 4
During Harmony Day, the Year 4 students had discussions about reducing waste in our environment. We looked at different food and drink items and how they created waste and we investigated other options that would reduce waste. We then connected our discussions and investigations with a number of Global Goals. 13 – Climate Action (reducing…
‘I Wish’ Poems – Year 5CI
In Year 5, we have been focussing on poetry writing, in particular, learning about how to write an ‘I Wish’ poem. In 5CI, students decided on a few really important things that would make their lives and others around them happier. We had a look at the Global Goals, and discussed ways in which we…
Harmony Day 2017: Grade 3
Our Harmony Day activities involved undertaking a research and speak out activity on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each student was given the opportunity to choose which of the 17 SDGs they were most interested in and were grouped with students from other year 3 classes. Students were then given the chance to research their…
Harmony Day 2017: Grade 6
On Harmony Day 2017, Grade 6s worked with their buddy classes from Grade 3. Our activity included a discussion of the Global Goals which is a part of internationalising education at T.M.P.S.We then paired up with our Grade 3 buddy and chose one global goal to discuss. We helped our buddies think of reasons why…
Internationalising Education in Year 6
This term in Year 6 we have been using texts about Malala to internationalise our program and achieve our learning goals. This first example was about how author’s use strategies to influence readers. We used the text ‘Malala/Iqbal’ by Jeanette Winters to look at images, font and powerful language to explain the author’s purpose. This…
Global Goals
The Global Goals are 17 goals set out by the United Nations. Our students have been learning about these goals and about how we can assist our country and other countries achieve these goals by the year 2030. Some of our teachers have been designing lessons with these goals in mind to help create globally-minded citizens that will…
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