Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 2
Bonjour à tous. While last week started comfortably enough, it very quickly picked up the pace. There is rarely a dull moment. With Year 12 completion at the end of this term, I’m sure our focus will be getting the best result for the students and the school.
Tim and Andrew are working with all the Year 12’s to ensure they have success plans in place. The timeline for Year 12’s to reach their goals is drawing near. Please continue to talk with your students and support them to reach the goals necessary. It is probably worthwhile checking your own targets to see what support you may need to help the students to get their best result. Please just ask if you need resourcing to assist. For example, to assist the students who had interruptions in Physics earlier this year we put in a number of different interventions to support these students get the grade they deserve. The same can be done for other groups should you see a need. Please talk with your PC. Important milestones for the Year 12 students and the measurement of school success are
- Present
- Passed OLNA
- Enough “C” grades
- Highest ATAR possible (>80)
- Certificate completion
The REO has been very insistent in reminding me to submit our “Remote Learning Plan”. I have been a little behind in leading the creation of this but finally a draft is out and your PC will be discussing this with you. Although I need to submit a version of this soon, I’m sure that it will continue to be a work in progress for us. It is really a way to capture the things that we have done previously and the things that we need to think about developing for future occasions should we need to deliver curriculum remotely.
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Principal
Questioning and feedback
Cold Calling
The obvious place to start with questioning and feedback is the simplest form of questioning. The Cold Call. As in Ferris Bueller’s Day off.
The Cold Call’s purpose is to get everyone thinking. If you allow hands up or calling out you only get responses from volunteers. Cold call allows you choose who answers and keeps students involved especially if it is teamed with “no opt out”.
Ask the question.
Ask a questioned that is aimed at the whole class. Tell them that you will be choosing someone to answer; they don’t need to raise their hand.
Give think time
As it sounds. Allow between 5 - 30 seconds depending on the complexity of the response required. Use this time to scan the room.
Select someone to respond
Using your knowledge of the students select someone to respond. Use names and invite students to give their ideas.
Respond to the answers
Turn each answer into a short exchange. At this stage you could insert the Say it again better until you get the correct answer.
To view last week's Leadership Minutes, please click the link below.
CHILD PROTECTION AND ABUSE PREVENTION
It is a requirement that all staff have completed the Child Protection and Abuse Prevention course available through Ikon under 'Professional Learning'.
As a teaching staff member, if a student makes a disclosure, you must complete a Mandatory Report, record the Mandatory Report number and provide the Mandatory Report number to the Principal or delegate.
If you are a non-teaching staff member, you are required to report the incident to the Principal or delegate.
Please see the links below for further information.
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.
Any further questions, please email Caz Gibney.
KINGIA ARTICLES
A reminder to please submit your articles for the Kingia Magazine as soon as possible! The Kingia Magazine is produced each year and includes a summary of content from across the year.
Submit all content via the link below.
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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