The School of Play
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Grade 5 & 6·Year 5 · Year 6
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Week Twenty Seven centres on the powerful life skill of resilience, teaching students that mistakes, falls, and setbacks are simply part of learning and growth. Through playful construction, reflective creativity, and energetic movement, students discover that persistence can be fun and rewarding. Activities like Try Again Towers and the “I Can Try” Booklet help children celebrate effort over perfection, encouraging them to see challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles. The focus on personal reflection reinforces that everyone learns at their own pace, and that courage often shows up in the small moments when we choose to try again.
As students progress through movement-based play and supportive group activities, they experience resilience in action, falling and bouncing back with smiles, cheering each other on, and sharing their own stories of perseverance. Bounce Back Race and My Cheer Squad foster a classroom culture where encouragement, empathy, and determination thrive. Inspired by Uranus and its unique sideways spin, students learn that being different, trying again, and embracing challenges are what make them brave, strong, and wonderfully unique. This week empowers children with the emotional tools and confidence to keep going, no matter the wobble.
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Personal & Social Capability and HPE Version 2.0, VCAA, used by Victorian schools.
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