Heard on the Hill Term 2, Week 8

From the Principal

I hope most enjoyed the long weekend. A lot was happening in Bunbury during that time including a mini tornado in the East Bunbury region. No more walking to the Parade for a sherbet for quite a while now.

Though bad weather hit Bunbury on Saturday, Friday was fine enough to enjoy the Reconciliation Bridge Walk. This was my first formal attendance and there was a fantastic turnout of people in general, but particularly from schools. It was heart-warming to see our students mingling with others and demonstrating respect worthy of the event and its meaning. A callout to JJ, our acting AEIO, for his major role at the ceremony. For a young adult he presented and spoke brilliantly.

The examination period has finished, and the Year 11s and 12s conducted themselves well during this time. Feedback from the invigilators was positive. The focus now is on providing explicit feedback to the students regarding their exams, including how to interpret the questions and how best to answer each one.

In an earlier HOTH, I mentioned data literacy as a crucial element of teaching. Teachers of an ATAR course could develop their own spreadsheet for the finished exams, similar to what everyone receives in their Maximising Feedback report for the WACE exams. Recording student responses for each question allows a teacher to determine strengths and weakness of their students to determine the consistency of responses and identify gaps in their knowledge.

Have a wonderful week.

Reports are due in the coming weeks.

Key dates: 

Week 19/Week 10 data is due.

• Year 11 and 12 data is due 9am on Monday 17 June.
• Year 7 data is due 9am on Tuesday 18 June.
• Year 8 data is due on Wednesday 19 June.
• Year 9 data is due on Thursday 20 June.
• Year 10 data is due on Friday 21 June.

Please remember to check the ABEs, comments and grades for errors. PCs will then double check before SS and exec do the final check.

If you are having any issues meeting the above deadlines, please see your PC early so supports can be put in place.

Howdy folks!

I am looking at starting up Coffee Club again from the beginning of Term 3.

For those that are new to the school, Coffee Club is a series of meetings during the term where we pair up with a colleague to conduct classroom observations. The idea is to set a goal around and area of your classroom practice that you would like to refine, have a trusted person observe your class and provide objective feedback about your goal, work on that feedback and observe again. The person observing is someone else in the Coffee Club.

We also usually end up talking about CMS, different instructional strategies and tactics and differentiation.

Coffee is offered as a bribe!

We usually run in the morning but I am happy to work around peoples schedules for after school or a lunch. If you are interested, please send me an email for a preferred day of the week and time. I will send out further nagging and emails later in the term.

cathy.watson@education.wa.edu.au

Promoting Bunbury SHS

Please continue to email and submit posts for our Facebook and Instagram pages! 

We love seeing students in action, whether in a classroom setting, in an incursion or off-site for an excursion or camp.

If you are conducting any activities you think are suitable for our school's Facebook or Instagram pages, please submit your content through the link below.

Please contact me with prior warning if you would like me to attend a session, lesson, activity etc if you would like me to take photos/videos to accompany your story.

If you have taken photos on your phone/iPad and are unsure of how to transfer these to me, please send me an email or come and visit me and I can assist you.