Community connections: Year 3 students Maddi Adanas and Aarya Singh are ready to welcome visitors to Guthrie Street Primary School for Education Week.
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Megan Fisher
At Guthrie Street Primary School, ‘commemorate the past, celebrate the present and imagine the future’ will be at the forefront on Tuesday, May 24.
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Grandparents will visit classrooms to provide children with direct insight into schools and education in the past.
“The teachers will be planning some activities around that for each of the classrooms,” Guthrie St Primary School principal Brendan Bicknell said.
There will be an emphasis on numeracy.
“Having a focus on what we did for maths in the past,” Mr Bicknell said.
“The department has really focused on numeracy this year.”
He said the school would begin a conversation on the future of maths and literacy.
“What's maths going to look like in the future and what’s literacy going to look like in the future; is there going to be a lot of technology involved?”
Mr Bicknell said the education system had changed significantly because of COVID-19.
“This is a great achievement, particularly over the last couple of years where education has really changed with a lot of online stuff.”
Open minds: Education Week will allow students like Zara Kerr and Perri Mustica, both in Year 2, to learn about past and future schooling.
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Megan Fisher
He said it was important to have visitors to the school in Education Week.
“I think it’s great to get back to linking with the community and having the ability to always have a strong community base.
“Grandparents and parents are the fabric of a primary school — they do the drop-off and pick-up, and look after their kids.
“It's really important to acknowledge that and get them into our schools and showcase what we're doing.”
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