This Is Us! - Back to School Team Building Activity

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Description

Build a strong sense of classroom community with This Is Us! – Together We Make a Great Team. This interactive back-to-school activity helps students introduce themselves, share their strengths, and discover connections with their classmates. The set includes a vibrant classroom banner and student worksheets, where children fill out their name, skills, favourite things, and something unique about them. Once completed, the worksheets can be displayed under the banner to create a classroom unity wall, reinforcing a supportive and inclusive learning environment.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9HPFP02 9

Practise personal and social skills to interact respectfully with others

AC9HPFP04 9

Explore how to seek, give or deny permission respectfully when sharing possessions or personal space

AC9HP2P04 9

Practise strategies they can use when they need to seek, give or deny permission respectfully

AC9HP4P02 9

Plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with the different changes and transitions they experience, such as the changes associated with puberty

AC9HP4P06 9

Explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions

AC9HP6P03 9

Investigate how the portrayal of societal roles and responsibilities can be influenced by gender stereotypes

AC9HP6P04 9

Describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships

AC9HP6P05 9

Describe and implement strategies to value diversity in their communities

ACPPS004 8.4

Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others

ACPPS038 8.4

Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength

ACPPS057 8.4

Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours

VCHPEP060

Practise personal and social skills to interact with others

VCHPEP093

Investigate how emotional responses vary in family situations and in friendship groups

VCHPEP111

Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours

PDe-2 old

Identifies people and demonstrates protective strategies that help keep themselves healthy, resilient and safe

PDe-3 old

Communicates ways to be caring, inclusive and respectful of others

PDe-9 old

Practises self-management skills in familiar and unfamiliar scenarios

PDe-10 old

Uses interpersonal skills to effectively interact with others

PD2-1 old

Explores strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change

PD2-2 old

Explains and uses strategies to develop resilience and to make them feel comfortable and safe

PD2-3 old

Explains how empathy, inclusion and respect can positively influence relationships

PD2-9 old

Demonstrates self- management skills to respond to their own and others’ actions

PD2-10 old

Demonstrates a range of interpersonal skills that build and enhance relationships and promote inclusion in various situations

PD3-2 old

Investigates information, community resources and strategies to demonstrate resilience and seek help for themselves and others

PD3-6 old

Distinguishes contextual factors that influence health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity which are controllable and uncontrollable

PD3-7 old

Proposes and implements actions and protective strategies that promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active spaces

PD3-8 old

Creates and participates in physical activities to promote healthy and active lifestyles

PD3-9 old

Applies and adapts self- management skills to respond to personal and group situations

PD3-10 old

Selects and uses interpersonal skills to interact respectfully with others to promote inclusion and build connections

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Provide a template with sentence starters for younger students or those needing additional support.
•    Offer a digital version for students who prefer typing their responses.
•    Use visual aids or symbols for younger learners and students with special needs.

EXTENSIONS

•    Pair students up to interview each other and complete each other’s worksheets.
•    Use responses to create a class book celebrating each student’s uniqueness.
•    Revisit the activity mid-year to see how students’ interests and skills have evolved.

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