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From the Principal

Kaya, Wanju,

Welcome back, I hope that your holiday was filled with rest and relaxation. I really enjoyed watching your engagement in the School Development Day agenda and can’t thank the presenters enough for their time and energy in preparing such a relevant and useful presentations.

On top of the successful SDDs, the school assembly, School Captains speech, Year 7 Activity Day and Year meetings have confirmed my feelings of progress in conquering our challenges and mastering our expectations for 2023. I cannot recommend highly enough that you keep a hold of the Our Focus 2023 and A3 School Business Plan summary foremost in your thoughts and actions. I know that they are in mine.

I would like to give special acknowledgement to the Instructional Leadership team, particularly, Travis Lee, Asharie Bradshaw, Nikki Sharpe, Cathy Watson, and Xan Ashbury who presented on the SDD; and also to Nick Andrews and the student services team for their preparation of the Year 7 Activity Day; and also the Executive team and front office staff that were in before the holidays to prepare the way for such a smooth start, particularly to Adam McGill and Kylie Ward who are both finding their feet in new roles at a really busy time of the year for their roles.

Currently, we are working on finalising numbers and our count for 2023 is on its way to 970 students. As usual, our lower school is full, and our senior school dwindles as the students take advantage of the great pathways we have to move from school to other places. I have instigated a review of the Year 10 movement to Manea. Our focus on Belonging and Senior School Culture, have been identified by the leadership team as two strategies to limit this.

A lot of information was given during the two SDDs so there is little left to say but to wish you well for the beginning of the year and to remind you to look after your health and wellbeing.

En Avant

Mike Sinagra

Getting Started

Term 1 creates the foundation for the year and I would highly recommend that you go slowly, set your classroom routines, student expectations and focus on calm calculated classroom management strategies. Tina Nottle has an excellent handout on the Behaviour Management flow at Bunbury SHS. Please make sure that you have a copy. Providing consistency across the school supports your colleagues.

Another useful document to keep in front of you is the Positive Behaviour Matrix. This document gives you a framework to have conversations with students from a positive perspective. A reminder to please clear a space either to one side of your whiteboard or above it for the Classroom – Positive Behaviours poster.

Bits and Bobs

I know that Kelly has reminded you all and given detail regarding your online training requirements by the department – but I would like to draw your attention to completing that particular online course as a priority. The Department of Education has deemed that Work Health and Safety management will have a larger compliance requirement in 2023. New WHS officer roles in school are needed and training for those roles is critical. Please keep a close eye here if you are interested in being on our WHS Committee.

The Workload Advisory Committee functions to discuss and participate in the resolution of workload issues for staff. The committee must have an equal number of School Administrators and SEA staff and be of gender balance. So that WAC membership itself does not become a workload issue, meetings are held as needed. If you would like to be on the WAC please send an EOI to me (Mike) via email notifying me of your interest. If I receive numerous emails, I will call for an expanded EOI to run a selection process.