Whole School Matters draft manuscript
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Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
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Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Bullying and Harassment links to The Arts

 

Activities & Sessions

Possible Standards

 

Advice & problem solving

Advice & problem solving - pages 42-43

Sample questions - pages 43-44

Alternatives - page 43

Workbook activities - page 44

Role cards (template) - page 45

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Speaking up

Exploring the options - page 46

Standing up for yourself - pages 47-48

Ingredients of an apology - pages 48-49

What can the bystander do? - page 50

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Designing a friendly environment campaign

Designing a friendly environment campaign - page 51

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Reading activity - let's tell a story

What is the message? - pages 68-69

How is it said? - page 69

Brainstorm - page 70

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3 Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

10 Students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

13 Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

 

Reading activity - let's tell a story

What is the message? - pages 68-69

How is it said? - page 69

Brainstorm - page 70

The Arts

3 Students use their aesthetic understanding to respond to, reflect on and evaluate The Arts.

 

Let's make a story

Developing their story - page 75

Completing the story - page 75

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

10 Students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

13 Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

 

Let's make a story

Developing their story - page 75

Completing the story - page 75

The Arts

1 Students generate The Arts works that communicate ideas.

2 Students use the skills, techniques, processes, conventions and technologies of The Arts.

3 Students use their aesthetic understanding to respond to, reflect on and evaluate The Arts.

4 Students understand the role of The Arts in society.

 

What do the newspapers say?

Read it, talk about it - page 76

Comprehension questions - page 77

Improvise a play about it! - page 78

Newspaper articles (handout) - page 79

Improvise a play (scenarios handout) - page 80

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3 Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

5 Students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make predictions.

10 Students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

13 Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

 

What do the newspapers say?

Read it, talk about it - page 76

Comprehension questions - page 77

Improvise a play about it! - page 78

Newspaper articles (handout) - page 79

Improvise a play (scenarios handout) - page 80

The Arts

1 Students generate The Arts works that communicate ideas.

2 Students use the skills, techniques, processes, conventions and technologies of The Arts.

3 Students use their aesthetic understanding to respond to, reflect on and evaluate The Arts.

 

Status

Warm-up games - pages 90-91

Power pairs - pages 91-92

'Human Guinea Pig' scenarios - page 92

Sample questions - page 93

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Scenes from stories

Warm-up games - pages 94-95

Storytelling - pages 95-96

Collecting material - page 96

Making a scene from a story - pages 96-97

Coaching for liberation - page 97

Workbook - page 98

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Belonging

Warm-up games - page 99

Gang greetings game - page 100

Conflict of wants - acting exercise - pages 100-101

Enter new kid - small group improvisation - pages 101-102

Mask it, move it - page 102

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

The Inside story

Warm-up games - page 103

Inside by bully - sub-text exercise - page 104

Inside/outside - creating tableaux and a text collage - page 105

Creating a text collage - page 105

Sample questions - page 106

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Standing up for yourself

Warm-up games - pages 107-108

Paired protests - pages 108-109

Hidden thoughts - a technique for exploring sub-text - page 109

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Fantasy - reality - nightmare

Warm-up games - pages 110-111

Nightmare-fantasy-reality - page 111

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

 

Group project - design a drama

Group project - design a drama - pages 112-113

Ideas for student feedback - page 113

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.