Community Connections
Term 3 has seen an enormous amount of fun and collaboration with our littlest buddies at our neighbouring local Kindergartens. Early in Term 3 our Year 5 mentor students represented our school showing their fantastic communication and leadership skills when we visited Gumboots Early learning Centre. They engaged the kinder kids in various play based activities and even got to help out during a cooking experience making banana muffins. Our mentor students again embodied our Lakes School Values of Respect, Leadership, Learning and Teamwork when we visited our friends at Little Learners Early Education and Kindergarten. We began the session with some reading followed by lots of creative and engaging developmental play. A great time was had by all.
We were lucky to then welcome our littlest friends from Little Learners into our learning spaces. After reading a story together our Prep students were able to take on a big buddy role when they helped the kinder kids complete a reading response activity. Later in the term we welcomed our friends from Paradise Kids Children ’ s Centre. Again we were able to provide a valuable school setting experience for our neighbours. We read a story together and completed a comprehension response to the book together with our Preps. We were so impressed at how the kinder kids independently entered the classroom and engaged with the activity. Afterwards we went to our Library where the children were able to browse the shelves and select their own books to look at. We have absolutely loved building these relationships with our local kindergarten students and colleagues. We are looking forward to many more fun times ahead!
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