The School of Play
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Grade 5 & 6·Year 5 · Year 6
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Week Fourteen brings a vibrant mix of creativity, humour, strategic thinking, and positive reflection to energise the group and strengthen social bonds. Students begin with playful, light-hearted activities like Drawing Animals On Your Head, encouraging laughter, connection, and creative self-expression in an intentionally relaxed environment. They then move into the Respectful Collaboration Challenge, where groups create posters that explore what respect looks like for themselves and others, building communication, shared understanding, and teamwork through discussion and collective creativity. These opening activities set a positive tone, helping students feel comfortable, connected, and ready to engage in meaningful group work.
The week then shifts into strategic, mentally engaging, and emotionally reflective games that blend movement with positive interaction. Through Fibbers Dice, students practise strategic decision-making, bluffing, risk assessment, and physical fitness in a competitive but friendly environment. Positive Reflection Battleships transforms a classic game into a powerful relationship-building experience, where compliments, positive reflections, and thoughtful questions replace traditional gameplay outcomes. Together, these activities strengthen teamwork, communication, emotional well-being, and resilience, helping students develop essential social and personal skills while reinforcing a supportive, uplifting group culture.
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Personal & Social Capability and HPE Version 2.0, VCAA, used by Victorian schools.
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