Each term Miss Gibbs and Mrs Bush organise a 'Bring a Friend' Session in the Arrowsmith Classroom. This provides an opportunity for the students visiting to develop a sense of what the Arrowsmith Classroom is like and how hard their friends work each and every session. It also provides the Arrowsmith students a chance to show their friends what they do and how these cognitive exercises focus on strengthening their learning capacity.  

Below is a reflection by Ava Ronchi and Jack Susic who visited the classroom a couple of weeks ago.

Arrowsmith - An hour in the life of our school friends

Wow this is really hard! This was our first thoughts when we were invited to the Arrowsmith ‘Bring A Friend’ session last Thursday. We were lucky to be chosen by our friends Emily and Miles to join them in an Arrowsmith session and try some of the cognitive exercises that they do each and every day.  Some of the exercises consisted of symbol recognition, lexical memory work and tracing. All of these exercises strengthen the brain in many different ways and we can see how. The Arrowsmith students work very hard on these exercises to master them and we think they have amazing persistence. We really enjoyed our experience and learned a lot about the Arrowsmith Program. Thanks for inviting us.

Any families interested in finding out more about the Arrowsmith Program. Please contact Michael Juliff mjuliff@scmoorabbin.catholic.edu.au