What learning has taken place at Heyfield Primary School this week?

Some more Science!

Students are still making ice-cream and investigating floating and inventors. They also learned how to create a ‘recorder’ and learnt more about the human body.

5/6 Incursion - Courage To Care

Phillip Graves and Peter Gaspar visited our school this week to talk to our grade 5/6 students about topics such as ‘Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination and Stereotypes’. Our students learned the definition of these words and discussed various scenarios, various consequences, but most of all the concept of ‘bystanders and upstanders’.

Peter Gaspar was five when he first had to hide from the Nazis, living in Czech Republic with his parents. Although he described as being a good thing to be so young when it happened, you could sense his story had an effect on him while he was telling it again and had a profound effect on our staff and students too. We discussed the concept of ‘treating others the way we would like to be treated’, which made a few students turned their head towards me. I knew they had made a connection with our school pledge and our message, at school, is similar to these two gentlemen. At the end of the sessions, our school captains Jett Dillon and Nayte Grogan thanked them and gifted them with our 150 anniversary token. They explained what they had learned and Peter and Phillip asked to have a photo taken with our pledge as a reminder and to celebrate our work with our students too.