Team 5/6 refers to grade 5 and 6 students
The development of students as they move from later childhood into adolescence underpins their learning. As the students experience many physical and emotional changes, and as they form their adult personality, basic values and attitudes change, therefore greater responsibility and independence is fostered to help build resilience.
Students at this level are provided with various leadership roles and responsibilities to help develop these changes.
As of 2021 all grade 6 students are school leaders. Each and every one of our students are highly capable and flourish given the opportunities to develop their leadership within our community.The ‘Pillars’ of Boroondara are the community framework by which our leadership program operates and have been developed by the grade 6 students in a number of focus groups to determine how they can best serve their community. Students align themselves with an area of the leadership model in which they are passionate and contribute to school improvement initiatives alongside members of staff who are linked to oversee and promote the individual pillars.This is an initiative which stems directly from the Framework for Improving Student Outcomes and has particular emphasis placed upon student engagement, leadership and building school pride.
The Keen Green Team is a key component of our senior school program. This environmental and sustainability directed opportunity focuses on key learning outcomes and thinking strategies in relation to student engagement with, and pride in, their school and a greater connection to the natural world.
Students have a strong voice in directing the work of the KGT, they develop a sense of agency through this development and initiation of projects and have opportunities to work in a variety of settings and groups thus allowing for development of interpersonal skills relating to collaboration, communication and problem solving.
Much of our students' hard work is underpinned by the framework provided by Sustainable Schools Victoria that allows us to chart the successes of our progress against agreed parameters as we work towards being a more sustainable community.
Our students participate in a 3 day - 2 night camps at The Summit (grade 5) and Waratah Bay (grade 6). Transition into year 7 is built into the programs at this level with a strong emphasis on making the transition into high school as smooth as possible. Numeracy, Literacy, Science and Interpersonal and Personal Learning are key aspects of the curriculum as well as an extensive ICT program that further develops '21st century skills'. The list below is just a sample of the wonderful activities our Team 4 students experience -
