Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 6
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
What a great week we had with all the NAIDOC visitors – the whole school assembly, lunch presentations and workshops. Thank you to Kelly, JJ, Asharie and the rest of the team for a great culturally aware week.
Recently, I have been speaking a lot about the awesome culture of our school. I talk often about the secret of our success being based on a commitment to align system priorities with best practice from credible educational research to create the BSHS three-step philosophy. Firstly nourish the social and emotional wellbeing of students, then provide quality teaching and learning and finish by providing valuable educational currency for students to maximise their academic potential.
I hope that we have the same philosophy towards staff. Staff wellbeing was embedded in previous business plans and continues to have a priority in the school via the Staff Wellbeing Committee.
Relief staff, built into the staffing profile, reduce internal relief demands on teachers, more collaborative team meeting planning time over whole school time, an active Workload Advisory Committee and positive engagement between Executive team members and Union representatives (teaching and non-teaching), contribute to a positive working environment. The Future Leaders Framework, Aspirant program, graduate teacher program and teacher resource hub, provide quality professional learning for staff. Each teacher is supplied with a laptop. A significant investment in teacher coaching through the Coffee Club, instructional leadership team and teacher relief to be involved in peer observation. I hope this helps you to be the best teacher you can be.
Finally, we try to actively develop career opportunities for teachers through acting roles and other opportunities. Over 80% of the aspirant program cohort achieved promotional positions, from Level 3 through to Principal roles.
If you have other ideas for us to nourish your social and emotional well-being, provide more support for the development of your practice, or find opportunities to success please discuss them with your line manager or the health and wellbeing committee. These are the avenues through which we collect feedback.
Have a great week. Boorda
En Avant
Thank you to everyone for your support of NAIDOC celebrations last week. The CIC always seeks to improve each year on what we are doing. We would really appreciate it if you would take the time to complete a short survey to give us some feedback.
On Thursday 5th September, I will be running an aspirant session about leadership. It will cover things like career development at each level of an education career; the personal attributes of effective leaders, what armoured leadership looks like versus daring leadership and recommended reading and viewing for your leadership development. If you attended my sessions last year, this will be a repeat of material from those sessions. This session will start at 3.15 and finish around 4pm. We will meet in Rm10. I hope to run three more sessions in Term 4:
Session 2 - Unpacking the AITSL Middle Leaders' Standards (these are new)
Session 3 - How to win the job you want
Session 4 - Workshopping your application letter and CV
Please let me know if you plan on coming to Session 1. I look forward to seeing you there!
Coffee Club is off and running for this term. Thank you to staff that have attended and are working together to help develop a culture of professional growth and conversation through peer observation.
It is a great opportunity to observe some high quality teaching, develop your skills and discuss different instructional and classroom management strategies. Coffee Club also provides you with the opportunity to complete your observations for performance management with a chosen peer. We will teach you how to get the best value and feedback out of your observation and help you align it with your performance goals. If you are a graduate working on your portfolio, we can help you provide evidence against the criteria for your SAO statements. There are 2 staff (Almarie January and Lewis Williams) that are completing their CAT 2 training and need people to observe, so if you are willing, please contact them so they can arrange times. If you do it through Coffee Club, we will provide FREE COFFEE!
If you are not available for Coffee Club but would still like to have a classroom observation or discussion, please contact me on the email below or track me down in Room 30.
The next round of Coffee Club will start around Week 7-8 for staff that are interested. I will put out an all staff email regarding times and coffee orders in week 6. If you have any questions, please find me or send me an email 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.
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