Year 5 Knowing Me, Knowing You

Knowing Me Knowing You was a 6-week project that involved all the children in Year 5. The project was all about writing biographies and autobiographies and finding out more about people who have made a difference to our world.

Tanya Jeckeln

Firstly, we wrote our own biographies, which wasn’t too hard. Then we chose our Person of Eminence – someone who had made a difference – and spent some time researching them and finally writing their biography. Completing written tasks and creative tasks was next. This included preparing speeches (with no palm cards), writing headlines and quotes, designing Fact or Fib cards, artworks, debates and much, much more!

After recess on Tuesday 26 June, we worked hard and fast to set up our displays before the invited classes visited our stands.

At 6.00 pm on Tuesday evening, we came back to school dressed as our Person of Eminence and gave a speech, in character. That was a bit scary. When we finished our speeches, our parents (and sometimes our brothers or sisters) asked us an open-ended question. Fanny Mendelsohn was asked: “Knowing that you were a better musician than your brother, but not having the opportunity to perform your works, what did you do?”

After our presentations, we headed to the MPH, where our parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters and friends (and even people we didn’t know), came to talk to us and find out more about our Person of Eminence.

We had an amazing night and our parents and teachers are still telling us how wonderful we were.

If you missed Knowing Me, Knowing You this year, we recommend you attend next year!

Year 5 students