Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 4
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
Today we will start our NAIDOC week celebrations. This year’s theme is – Get up! Stand up! Show up!
We need to move beyond just acknowledgement, good intentions, empty words and promises, and hollow commitments. At its most basic, a genuine commitment by all of us to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! supports and secures collaborative and cooperative reforms to ensure justice, equity, and the proper recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights.
During the week there will be a number of activities for staff and students to participate in. We have been lucky enough to secure a speaker who has embodied this message at great personal toll – risking their lively hood and professional reputation. It is a reminder for us to
…. Be the change that you want to see…
Although at times this can be hard, I urge you to look for ways to contribute to our school by making meaningful contributions to institutional reforms to make a meaningful contribution to the justice, equity and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights. We have already made meaningful progress in this area by creating the Aboriginal Advisory Council made of prominent Aboriginal community members. The Council has begun advising the school on a number of matters.
Have a great week and enjoy the NAIDOC activities.
Have a great week.
En Avant
Nuts and Bolts
As mentioned at the staff meeting last week please see the link to view the disability access plan.
You can access the Access Management Plan for People with disability on the M drive: M:\Policy Documents\School Policies
Leadership team meeting minutes
Please keep a close eye on the minutes of this committee for updates, acknowledgements and to keep abreast of the things the leadership team is working towards. Your Program Coordinator is your voice in this forum.
NAIDOC 2022 BSHS celebrating 8-12 August
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
ACTIVITIES
All Week
Library - colouring in of designs by an Aboriginal artist
Notices - read about prominent Aboriginal people in WA
Monday
Make a woollen bracelet and wear it to our whole school NAIDOC assembly.
Tuesday
Guest Speaker - Maxwell Jetta - Yr 9 period 1, Year 7 period 2, Year 8 period 3 in the Library.
Wednesday
Face painting at break times on the front lawn - students may come to your class with traditional Aboriginal designs painted on their faces.
Thursday
Noongar Legends - storytelling with Cherie Fielder in the Library at break times.
Friday
Art workshops (in Art classes), Lunch 2 Displays at Student Services, music at the amphitheatre, plus various guests from our Aboriginal Advisory Council. Staff are welcome to come and chat to our visitors.
Careers Committee
Are you a careers superstar or interested in helping to develop the pathways of our students? We are looking to form a Careers Committee, that would be interested in working to promote careers across the school and our community.
If you are keen or just interested in finding out a bit more, please send through an EOI to peta.king@education.wa.edu.au
The BEST Teachers
Classroom Observations
To assist teachers in this area the Coffee Club is on again. It is held in Rm30 starting Tuesday 9 August at 8.00am. If you are interested in developing yourself further as a teacher then come along. This is a safe environment for everyone to share and explore strategies to improve their teaching. In Japan, developing teaching is driven by teachers and certainly not from ‘above’. The Japanese argue that why would you have Administrators driving change in teaching when they are no longer practitioners? They view the classroom as a laboratory where teachers work with other teachers to further develop the craft of teaching (jugyō kenkyū). In effect, the Japanese have developed a system that entirely invests responsibility for the development of teaching with teachers.
Lemov’s – No Opt Out
In earlier Heard on the Hill’s, I have shared snippets on the No Opt Out strategy as a means to increase student accountability within the classroom. There will be many hurdles to get this strategy running smoothly, and you could join the Coffee Club to have a peer observe you trying to establish this strategy.
One approach to get this going, if you do not wish to start cold, is a “rollout speech” telling your students in advance that you’re going to use this technique and explain why and how they should respond. By rolling out the technique, you may head off any potential hiccups.
- What will happen when you use No Opt Out
- How students should respond
- What will be tricky about it
- What it will be like over time as they get used to it
- Why you are doing this.
IT Committee Meeting Tuesday 3.10PM D&T4
The IT committee will be meeting Tuesday at 3.10pm.
New members are very welcome.
See you there
PE Uniform
There seems to be some confusion from students in regards to wearing their PE shirt (the House coloured polo) around the school as uniform. Students should be in normal school uniform, then change into/out of these shirts when they attend their sport classes.
If you see students in your class wearing their PE shirts, can you ask to see their uniform pass. If they don't have one, please ask them to head to Student Services at the next break to get one as they are breaching the uniform code.
If you have any queries, please chat with me.
Thanks for your support with this.
KINGIA ARTICLES
Only 4 weeks left to submitt your articles for this year's Kingia Magazine.
Articles for the Kingia Magazine can be submitted via the link below or you can email me directly at ellie.mackay@education.wa.edu.au
If you have a number of photos to submit (more than 10): you can drop these into the drive for me to access here: M:\Kingia 2022
Deadline to submit your Kingia article: Friday, 9 September (Term 3, Wk8)
Video for promotions
We love to see what projects are happening throughout the school! Across all the learning areas, we would like to capture a snapshot of what projects, activities and more happens during school for a new promo video that can be shared on our socials and website.
Ellie is available for classroom visits and can even attend incursions and excursions to get great footage of our students in action.
If you have something that you think could be videoed during class time or an incursion/excursion, please email Ellie: ellie.mackay@education.wa.edu.au with more details.
Download SZapp
Download the SZapp to keep up to date with all our school communications.
It's a very easy-to-use app with links to all of our school platforms, including the school website, newsletters, Facebook, calendar plus more!
Watch the video below on how to download and some of the features.
BUNBURY SHS INSTAGRAM
BUNBURY SHS FACEBOOK
Is 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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