From the Principal
From the Principal
Thank you to all the staff who have supported me over the last week. It has been a difficult time for my family. My mother became ill and passed away Friday. Many of you picked up the pieces and ran with things, or put up with me not being at my best. I am so grateful for your enthusiasm, tolerance and patience. It is a testament to the quality of the people and our culture of doing what we can to support each other.
Last week was the official launch of the Department of Education’s – Teaching For Impact.
It is a fantastic resource that clearly describes what effective teachers – believe, know and do. It goes further than our Best Teachers Poster but shows that we have been on right path in describing what we believe to be effective teaching at Bunbury SHS. I have attached the overview poster here.
We will soon distribute professionally printed versions to each learning area. The poster is great to get an overview. There are videos and more resources here.
I urge you to explore the web page and use the resources. Like CMS gave us a language and specific strategies to describe good classroom management this work will do the same for effective teaching. It will make a great resource to use with Peer observation for improving our practice.
Have a great week.
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Nuts and Bolts
Ed-E-Mail
I hope that you had a chance to read the recent ed-e-mail, there are some significant changes to the composition of school development days that we will be making for 2023. Specifically, to allow for the exploration of curriculum materials.
Events
The Alumni Open Day was a great success; again, thanks to the efforts of staff and our 2023 Prefects who volunteered to assist. I would like to specifically mention Xan, Andrew, Kelly and Deon who helped on the day and Ellie for all the planning that went into such an event. On events, the Year 12 Presentation Night occurred last week on Thursday. Although I was unable to attend I did watch it via the live-streaming option. It was fabulous. Congratulations to Ellie, Tim, Andrew, Danelle and the team.