AP News
Soccer
Each year, in Terms 2 and 3, we enthusiastically enter soccer season at OLV. Unfortunately, it often heralds the beginning of issues on the soccer field…well, not this year!
In the last week of Term 1, Year 4 were asked to write down suggestions for modified rules, acceptable behaviours, and expectations for school soccer. During Naplan, Ms McGann worked with the Year 6 students to collate and refine these ideas into a list of rules for the students by the students. (See below) The time was spent modifying and clarifying the rules, penalties and behaviours – for players and refs – and teams were assembled across Years 3-6. These have been implemented over the last two weeks, and whilst there have been a few teething issues, there has been nothing that hasn’t been able to be sorted out quickly and calmly. Congratulations to our senior students who have built, maintain and monitor this new ‘system’.
PBL Update
During Weeks 1 – 4 of this term, the staff and students spent quality time unpacking the term ‘respect’, so that when we use the term in our everyday language, we are all aware of what it means - treating others the way you would like to be treated. In each class, the students discussed ways that respect looks, sounds and feels like. Each class created a chart with their thoughts. Kindergarten and Year 1 had some assistance from their teachers, but the rest of the student body created these with appropriate levels of support. Importantly, EVERY child has had a chance to have their say, to have their voice heard.
When collating the responses from across the school, there were several post-it notes with the same or similar ideas, which were bundled and stapled together. Things like:
- Respect looks like helping, being kind to others, letting others go in front of you, taking turns
- Respect feels like happy, calm, good, joyful
- Respect sounds like kind words, “Do you want to go in front of me?”, “Are you ok?”, saying sorry, thanks (or something similar).
It is worth looking at what the other post-it notes say as I believe that it is a beautiful representation of our school. I am so proud of the efforts of every child at OLV because this shows their understanding of the word ‘respect’. We will continue to embed this concept, but we now move on to our next focus – I AM SAFE.
Staff and students will look at ways to stay safe in various different places on the playground, including the fields, COLA, toilets, equipment, classrooms, etc. Again, it is an opportunity for the students to have their voices heard on this issue and that the ‘rules’ are being made with them, not for them.
