Back To Reality?

Post  conference euphoria.............followed by reality blues.  This was all in the space of 3 days.  But then a Year 5/6 Planning Meeting and the the collective interest and energy of this fantastic group lifted me.

This afternoon we decided on a few things:

1. We would establish the Year 5/6 Leadership Legacy Project
2. Curriculum focus would be defined as SOSE but we acknowledged we would be covering many curriculum areas.
3. We would work together as 3 classes with 4 teachers with the Library as our Learning Environment.
4. The project is to be student led so we are not sure about the path it will take but teachers to act as facilitators.
5. Resources, blog etc will be located on Library Web http://oakleighss.edublogs.org/
6. We are going to have to 'trim' or condense some part of the curriculum in order to fit this in.  We have decided to use strategies related to 'flipping the classroom' to set homework tasks largely around Federation.

We also discussed our feelings of unease as to not knowing the shape of the outcome.  We mentioned that if we weren't feeling unease, we probably wouldn't be approaching it in the right way as we are meant to be out of our comfort zones. This is the kids leading the learning - not us.