Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 2
Kaya, Wanjoo,
Last week on Thursday and Friday I attended the Southwest Principals conference. The Southwest is the 3rd largest education region in WA with over 29,000 students. One session that I thought you would appreciate was a presentation by the Grattan Institute. You will know them for the research that they do that shapes the national education policy and direction.
Their report on Whole School Curriculum Planning approach was very interesting.
Here is a summary.
My expectation of you to engage in our whole school curriculum planning and delivery comes with my responsibility to make the best conditions for each of you to thrive. Hence, already you will notice the things that we do as a school to enable this so far.
- There is a scope and sequence outlining the, what and when things are taught from Year 7 to Year 10 in each learning area.
- Each learning area has curriculum leaders for each year group.
- We have an agreed delivery pedagogy in our “Shared Instructional Framework” and now with the Teaching for Impact Framework.
- We have an instructional leadership team to support staff develop their teaching practice and Peer Observation skills.
- We have re-distribute 3 of the 5 hours of whole school meeting time per term back to learning areas for collaborative planning.
There is still more that I can do to find you more time to plan great lessons. I have some ideas on that and will be trialling something at the start of Term 4. There is more that you can do in learning areas investigating and implementing the use of ready-made curriculum materials. I hope that you use this this term to think about the curriculum delivery in your learning area. If you would like to read the report, you will find it here.
Have a great week
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Survey My Class
So far, we have had 24 staff participate in the Survey My Class process. It would be great to see all staff engage with this opportunity, as I am sure we all strive to become better practitioners.
Obtaining student feedback provides valuable insights into teaching practise and classroom dynamics. Additionally, it empowers students in your class by giving them a voice.
The class survey opportunity is still open. This year we have staggered the process to prevent students from having to do lots of surveys in a short amount of time.
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Week 9 Term 2 |
Teachers from Arts, Technologies, and HPE learning areas |
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Week 10 Term 2 |
Teachers from Arts, Technologies, and HPE learning areas |
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Week 1 Term 3 |
Teachers from Maths and Science learning areas |
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Week 2 Term 3 |
Teachers from English and HASS learning areas |
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Catchup |
All Learning Areas |
Students use this link to access the survey:
https://www.research.net/r/BunburyJun2024
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Adam on 78905.
Workload Advisory Committee
Workload is often the main cause of staff stress or anxiety. Our school has a workload advisory committee, which was set up as part of our focus on Staff Wellbeing in our previous business plan, and which we continue to support through the new Staff Wellbeing Committee.
Staff Representatives for this year (continuing their 2 year tenure) are: Renee Chapple, Luke Marinoni and Adam McGill.
If you have workload issues, please discuss them first with your line manager, as many of these can be resolved quickly and easily.
If you have an issue that cannot be resolved, please submit it via either the survey link provided here, or on the document below (which can also be found in the School Templates folder on your desktop.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M5NWMXV
Thank You
In amongst my welcoming people back at the start of the year, I seem to have forgotten to thank all the people who were acting in place of others in Term 2. They all showed that they have the skills ready for their next step in their career. Thank you to Tina for covering the Deputy role, Nic Andrew for stepping into the Manager of Student Services and Jonelle McLoughlin for covering the Head of Year position.
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.
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