Evaluating

Room 13 – Year 5

Plus

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Minus

Interesting

!

Skills
  • Cornell Note-Taking System – learning to focus on key words to remember information
  • Choice of access to websites
  •  Cornell-Note-Taking-System was confusing (splitting the page into different parts-not knowing exactly where to write certain information) and difficult to understand (time consuming-) What was the reason for asking the question based on the information noted?
Knowledge
  •  note-taking new things
  •  learning about the different cultures because some people haven’t visited these places and they had the chance to touch money etc.
  • Interesting to know that our school is very diverse and there are lots of different cultures
  • Surveying our families
  • finding out about different people and the countries that they came from
  • learning about why and when people came to Australia
Way of working
  • access to books
  • team work
  •  silly behaviour
  •  accessing interesting facts in  books and on the internet
  • peer presentations were informative
  • working students from other classes
Final Event
  •  great success
  • audience was interested
  • traditional outfits
  • dances – drew attention to the stalls, fun or the presenters
  • audience trying food and listening to information
  • laptops/tablets presenting pictures or videos (multimedia)
  • focus on food rather than information – being respectful of the time and effort that has gone into researching and preparing the event
  • too many people/classes at the same time, too loud
  • lots of interest in henna and calligraphy
  • instead of powerpoint have a photo of th school ‘Welcome to NPS Multicultural Event’
  • Some people not engaging the audience
  • interesting to see the different cultural outfits
  • ingredients listed next to food
  • asking quiz questions and being rewarded for good listening (food)
Other
  •  everyone contributed
  • most people learnt something new

 

  •  being responsible for producing our own stall

 

Room 14 – Year 5/6

 

Plus

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Minus

 Interesting

!

 Skills

 Intro to Inquiry was a useful starting point

 

 Using Cornell note taking system

researching skills

 Knowledge

 Time line / places

Learnt new info/facts

 Way of working

 Use other resources besides the internet when researching

All team members contributing

Parent and student engagement

Enthusiasm

 Creativity involved – great!
 Final Event

 Placement of stalls

Props and decorations intriguing

Dances / performances

Something worthwhile to share

Costumes were appealing

Interactivity

 Tiring for presenters: perhaps a seat!

All members not contributing equally

Water bottle for voice

Some leaving stalls

Some visited interested only in food

Amounts of available food

Allergies / provide ingredient list

Some stalls = limited information

Audience were sometimes distracted: presenters to maintain engagement

 Don’t use food to necessarily attract others

Lots of adults present

Audience wanted more info on visuals, not typed up info

Dances/performances

Some audience members didn’t ask questions

Limited feedback for some groups

Ingredients in food items

Year 7’s were providing useful feedback (as observers)

Some Year 7’s weren’t fulfilling their roles

 

Other Extended learning after event – own will

 

Room 12 – Year 5

Plus

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Minus

 Interesting

!

 Skills

 People learning dances

How to say hello, speak in different languages

Creating the stall

 

 Learning about all the different cultures

Cornell Note taking

Easy to choose a country

 Knowledge

 Interesting information

Good to learn about all the different cultures

All the different languages

 More access to technology to research – iPads  Learning how people act when greeted
 Way of working

 Everyone got a chance to display

Great feedback from staff, students and peers

Working with others to find interesting facts

 split the groups up more evenly

Choose a country of your choice

Choose a country that your family is not connected to

Choosing parts

More practice time – whole team/ group

 Final Event

 Different foods

The beautiful costumes

How information was presented – pictures

How people came to our stall – audience

 only came to get food – didn’t learn anything (took food)

Games just to win lollies

Reaction of audience to ingredients in food was a bit rude (black pudding, cold roll)

Lolly jar – created too much excitement – wanted to open

Noisy

Food was a distraction from information

More set up time – rushed to get ready

Food allergies taken into account – permission?

Feedback from year sevens – explaining to year seven took one member away from the group

More space for the stalls

 Each stall different – Interesting, colourful

Yuta – names in Japanese

Learnt how to say hello in different languages

 

Different clothing worn

Easy to get rid of all the food – everyone wanted to try some

Other

 

 

Countries of Birth – Whole School

Country of birth Tally
Australia 310
New Zealand 7
China 8
Malaysia 10
United Kingdom 7
United Arab Emirates 6
Korea 3
India 19
Taiwan 1
America 4
Ireland 2
Equador 1
Turkey 1
Denmark 2
Philippines 4
Thailand 1
Hong Kong 4
Italy 2
Netherlands 1
Vietnam 1
Saudi Arabia 4
Romania 1
Pakistan 7
Indonesia 1
Columbia 2
Sri Lanka 5
Poland 2
Jamaica 1
Singapore 2
Zimbabwe 1
England 1
South Africa 1
Germany 1
Iran 2

Types of Migration: A summary by Emma Room 11

There are 3 main groups of migration (family, skilled and humanitarian). 67% of migrants are skilled and looking for jobs. The criteria needed is to have English ability, qualifications and work experience. For people to get into family stream, migrants must have close family in Australia already. There is no type of test to get into Australia if a migrant is coming because of family. Humanitarian program helps refugees in need of a safe place to live. 3 reasons why this program is needed is because of war, famine or persecution. This program protects refugees in and out of Australia. In 2008-2009, 13,507 people were helped in Australia and 11,010 people were helped in their own country.

Multicultural Celebration – Locating

Year 5 Resources

Explore who has come to Australia in the past and why. (Before Federation)
http://differencedifferently.edu.au/one_country_many_cultures/part_3a.php

Year 6 Resources

Explore immigration to Australia since Federation

http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/snapshots/find-of-the-month/2007-july.aspx

https://www.worldvision.com.au/docs/default-source/school-resources/get-connected-full-issues/getconnected-08-migration.pdf?sfvrsn=8

Explore migration after the war
http://www.nma.gov.au/interactives/tlf/homes/index.html

Government Policies

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets

Australia’s migration program:
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/01backgd

Changes in policy
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/08abolition

Multicultural Celebration – Defining

Questions

Who

Who is in the audience?

Who is in Norwood Primary School?

Who am I?

Who will we talk about when we share our culture?

Who will be our main audience?

Who are our resources?

Who has a diverse culture?

Who discovered the different cultures traditional flags? and why?

Who created the Multicultural Festival? (in Adelaide)

Who will be participating in the activities?

Who will be viewing the events?

Where

Where do you come from?

Where is everybody from?

Where are your ancestors from?

Where do the different cultures come from?

Where will we perform?

Where will we get our information from?

Where are we doing it?

Where did the patterns of the flags originate from?

Where were people born in the Norwood community?

Where do cultures meet?

Where do we do it?

Where are we setting up?

Where in the school will the stalls be?

Where are your parents from?

Where were you born?

Where would we run this event?

Where are the people in our community from?

Where will the event be set?

What

What are your traditions?

What country are you from?

What happened to my ancestors and where are they from?

What culture are you?

What is your cultural background?

What country does everyone come from in our school?

What will we present?

What cultures are common in our community?

What will our audience think?

What country will we base it on?

What other types of cultures do we have in our community?

What differences are there in other cultures in comparison to Australia?

What type of foods and traditions are there in different cultures?

What are the cultures national foods?

What religious beliefs do cultures have?

What is the national clothing of the country?

What is the biggest culture?

What do different cultures do for fun?

What time was the festival held?

What would we do?

What is your background?

What percentage of each culture is represented in the Norwood community?

What are some traditions from different cultures?

What type of research are we going to do?

What different foods do people eat around the world?

What different clothes do people wear?

What responsibilities do different people/ genders have?

What things will be in the event?

How

How did you arrive in Australia?

How long did it take to get to Australia?

How were the countries named?

How will the event turn out?

How were some cultures introduced to our community?

How will we present it?

How will we be organised?

How long will it take?

How will we represent ourselves?

How many people are going to this event?

How do the different languages come to be?

How many different foods are there for each culture?

How many cultures do we have in our Norwood community?

How do cultures make their food?

How do different cultures work in school?

How many people in the largest culture?

How many cultures are in the school and what are they?

How to speak different languages?

How many cultures are there in Norwood?

How would you find out what culture everyone is?

How do people dance?

How will we make everyone feel welcome?

How much money are we aiming to raise?

Why

Why did you come to Australia?

Why were cultures invented?

Why do we have different cultures?

Why did they come?

Why do we think people came to Australia?

Why will we perform?

Why are there so many cultures?

Why do all the cultures have different traditions?

Why are we doing this event?

Why do we have so many cultures in our community?

Why are the cultures important?

Why did people create the multicultural festival?

Why do people eat different foods?

Why are people treated differently?

Why did all the countries separate?

Why doesn’t everyone believe in different countries coming together?

Why did Australia let people of other cultures in?

Why are cultures so different from each other?

Why do people come here?

Why do people eat certain foods?

When

When did you come here?

When does the event start?

When did the cultures come to Australia?

When was the multicultural festival created?

When does the different treatment stop? (attitudes)

When did Australia start letting in foreigners?

When did our community come together as a whole?

When will the event be held?

Which

Which cultures have the most influence on our community?

Which parts of the world did they come from?

Which different places have people come from?

Which country has the most population?

Do some countries have the same cultures as other countries?

Does every country have some kind of icon?

Could the visitors participate in a quiz?

Would it be helpful to have fact sheets for each culture?

Can we have class mates (if willing) to present cultural heritages?

Will we need props?

 

 

Countries of Birth of Students – Year 5/6

Country Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Total
Australia 17 13  16  17 63
Germany 1 1
New Zealand 1 1 2
Saudi Arabia 1 1 2
Sri Lanka 1 1  1 3
India 1 2  1 2 6
Philippines 1 1
South Korea 1 1
Malaysia 1  1 2
Scotland 1 1
America 1  1 2
England 1 1
Hong Kong 1 1
Japan 1 1
Iran 1 1
United Arab Emirates 1 1 2
Turkey 1 1
Colombia 1 1
Taiwan 1 1
China 2 2

Countries of Birth of Parents of Students – Year 5/6

Country Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Total
Australia 25 23  26  18 92
Germany 1  1 2
New Zealand 3 1  2 6
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka 2 2  2 6
India 2 5  4  5 16
Philippines 2
South Korea
Malaysia
Scotland 2 2
America 2  1  2 5
England  1 3  1  4 9
Hong Kong 2 2
Japan  1 2 3
Iran 2  1 3
Poland 1  2 3
Vietnam 2 2
Spain 1 1
South Africa 1  1 2
Pakistan 2  2 4
Indonesia 1 1
Austria 1 1
Romania 1 1
Greece 1  1  1 3
Malaysia 1  1 2
Singapore 1 1
Maldives 2 2
Iraq 2 2
Colombia 2 2
Taiwan 1 1
 China 4 4
Turkey 1 1
Serbia 1 1
Mauritius 1 1
Cambodia 1 1
Ireland 1 1
Italy 1 1

 

Multicultural Celebration – A Collaborative Inquiry Project – Year 5 and 6 – 2018

In Week 8 we plan to hold a Multicultural Celebratory Event to celebrate the diversity of our community. The Year 5/6 students will lead our community event with the aim to involve as many people in our community as possible – adults and students in fun, active, informative, engaging cultural activities. (Dancing, food demonstrations, listening to story telling, puppet shows, sports/ games, music, demonstrations, etc.)

Your challenge is to research cultural practices/ traditions/ activities that could be part of our Multicultural event. You will then, in small groups, need to plan, design, and lead small groups of participants in your activity. How will you engage/ inform/ entertain your audience/ participants?

Aim to highlight/ enact our school values of: Community, Diversity, Opportunity and Creativity.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/multiculturalsa/sets/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/multiculturalsa/sets/72157690002758395

DEFINE:
What do we already know?

Community – Cultural – multi-cultural
Diversity
Creativity
Opportunity

What would we like to find out?
Pose questions to guide inquiry
Which resources will be useful?

 

Homework:

Share ideas with family

Ask how they might support this school project.

https://www.harmony.gov.au

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