Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 1
Bonjour à tous, welcome to Term 3. Thank you for your participation yesterday. I hope that you enjoyed the program and you were able to get your learning area review completed during the learning area time. Your contributions to the IPS School Review is very valued and appreciated. A lot of news was given so this will be a very short edition.
Across the holidays I meet with other Principals and the Director General regarding a potential reschedule of Country Week in Term 4. I don’t see this as being likely but we have been asked to ask our school community which we will do.
This term the Minister for Education will visit to open the Cafeteria. This was scheduled for the start of the year but was cancelled due to a lockdown. The visit will coincide with the following announcements:
- The $1 million dollars towards STEM in the school
- The establishment of a Follow the Dream Hub at Bunbury Senior High School
Term 3 is the start of a new semester and a great time to get the students to set some academic goals and to refocus. Term 1 we focussed on Classroom Management Strategies, Term 2 on Strategies for High Expectations and our shared Instructional framework. In Term 3, we will keep the focus in the classroom looking at Questioning Techniques.
Have a great term!
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Principal
NUTS AND BOLTS
SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY
There will be two school development days this term. The next will be in week 6 on Monday 23 August. This day will be dedicated to the professional learning required to deliver the social and emotional learning program that we have for Year 7 & 8 students next year.
I am also very interested in feedback regarding the SDD. Please click the link to give your feedback.
QUESTIONING AND FEEDBACK
Questioning and feedback often cross through the strategies for High Expectations and CMS. Therefore, we will start where we left off last term with
Say it again Better
Ask a student a question
Use any question technique that you usually use
- Cold Calling
- Think Pair Share
- Check for understanding
Acknowledge the first answer
Be positive about the first response given. If it is a half-formed answer falling short of being excellent respond with something like. “That’s a good start but let’s develop that further”. If they are simply wrong say something like “Good try, but that not quite right. Let’s see what we need to do to make it right”.
Give supportive feedback
Invite the students to consider more specific ways to respond that will improve the answer.
- “What’s a more technical term/”
- “Is there a more complex pattern here?”
- “Can you include a reason for that opinion?”
Invite students to say it again better
After exploring what a better answer might look like, ask the same student to have another attempt to improve their answer. This is important to check for understanding as well as give the student a feeling of success from having generated a higher quality response.
Respond to the improved answer
Decide if the response is of sufficient quality before moving on. Give affirmative praise or repeat the process until you have the quality of answer required. The effect of this is to demonstrate to the student that they are capable of excellent responses.
Trauma Informed Practice
We often have students who have been affected by trauma. I have provided a link to a useful resource that provides some information and strategies.
SENIOR SCHOOL NEWS
Welcome back everyone!
From the beginning of Term 3, my role is now Senior School Manager. Mark Woodland will manage the Student Services Team and all issues arising from the Year 7-10 cohorts.
Key Senior School News:
1. Year 10 Counselling process continues and students will be completing applications for 2022 TAFE and BRTTC courses over the coming few weeks.
2. Year Meetings will now occur on a fortnightly basis. Typically, the meetings will run for 15-20 minutes. Teachers will be requested to bring their class to the library at the beginning of the lessons.
Odd weeks – Year 11
Even weeks – Year 12
The schedule will be confirmed at this week’s Leadership Meeting.
3. Reminder of Whole School Assembly – P2 on Wednesday 21 July (in the Gym).
Have a great term!
The Year 12 Career and Enterprise classes will be hosting a Careers Seminar in the PAC on Tuesday 27 July. The seminar will be open to Year 10, 11 and 12 classes.
They have sourced many interesting guest speakers who will present about their career journey. This may be of interest to your Year 10,11 & 12 students who are thinking of future career pathways.
The seminar will run from Period 1-4. If you would like to take your class along to any of the sessions, please email Year 12 student Jasmine Hagen at jasmine.hagen@student.education.wa.edu.au who will be managing the bookings. She has sent out an All staff email with further details.
Any further questions, please email Caz Gibney.
BUNBURY SHS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT!
We are on Instagram!! Our Instagram account has been designed primarily for our students to engage with our school community. We would like to use the Instagram account to promote school activities such as Library, Cafeteria, House competitions, positive education experiences etc.
If you would like to post something on our Instagram account that is about or aimed at our students, please use the Wufoo link below (same as our Facebook link) or send me an email directly.
Please note: Instagram is all about photos and images so please be mindful to grab a good picture to go with your story!
Head over to our page and follow us!
DOWNLOADING THE SCHOOLZINE APP
We understand that now more than ever, it’s essential for our school to have effective and efficient communication channels available to our school community and staff - accessible anywhere, anytime. Our communication platform "Schoolzine" offers that and more!
We encourage you to download the SZapp so that you have access to the latest news and events as well as important links in one convenient app.
Please follow the instructions on how to install the app in the link below.
BUNBURY SHS FACEBOOK
Something interesting happening in or around your classroom? Having an incursion or excursion this term? Please let me know! We love to share updates from the school with our community and would like representation from each area of our wonderful school; no matter how big or small.
Please submit stories for our Facebook page via the wufoo link below and include as much information as you can, plus a few images to accompany the article. If you are having trouble with the wufoo form, you can email the information to me directly.(ellie.mackay@education.wa.edu.au)
Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and check out what our students and staff get up to.
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