Opportunities for you to help us in our Inquiry Learning during Learning Agreement

Dear Parents,

We would like to open up times throughout our week where you can come in and support the learning in the Neighbourhood.

Firstly, we would like to invite family members to come and speak with the children about what happiness means to you and ways that you try and maintain or increase your happiness. If you can stay after roll call and speak with the children on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at 9.15am please let a neighbourhood teacher know.

Through performance and the shop we are exploring how we can make positive changes in other people’s lives. Gift giving and making objects intended on making someone happy to sell at our play shop are some ways we are exploring happiness. We are also writing cards to other members of the neighbourhood to hang on our Friendliness Tree. 

The following are aspects of our Inquiry that we are seeking help for during Learning Agreement on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9.15-11am.

·      Performance skills: improvisation, dialogue development, expression and audience awareness.

·      Writing (procedural text, cards for the Friendship Tree)

·      Making products for our ‘Happiness shop’ (friendship bracelets, DIY clay beads, creative cardboard toys, felt toys)

·      Helping photograph the children’s work for their procedural text.

·      Helping run the ‘Happiness Shop’ (sign-writing, assisting children to add money and calculate change, and assisting children to record sales and purchases (starting end of week 5 or week 6).

Any amount of help you can provide would be appreciated and valuable. We will have a calendar on the pin board outside the neighbourhood rooms so that you can indicate a morning when you might like to come in. We will also have a sheet with the times we require assistance so that you can indicate if you would like to volunteer regularly. If there is a specific activity you would prefer to help with, you can also record this down on the sheet.

Please don’t forget you are welcome on Thursday and Fridays 2.30-3.15pm to help with our mini project clubs (animation, science and gardening).

Please let us know if you are going to be joining us.

Warm Regards,

The Year One Neighbourhood Team