From the Principal

Bonjour à tous, and Wanju

Welcome back to Term 4 everyone. The weather across the break has been fantastic. I hope that you had the chance to experience the explosion of wildflowers, or the beach sand between your toes or found some way to acknowledge the emergence from the darkness of winter into the new term. I achieved a personal milestone, finally catching a fish using my fly rod.  Hopefully, there will be many more to come.

Term 4 is traditionally a time for feedback and reflection. That of course will continue with all of the programs that we are delivering at Bunbury SHS. This year we have set aside one of the school development days for this process. In the past we have rotated through learning areas. That structure adds to the TR burden. To ease that burden, this year the SDD will be almost totally handed over to learning areas to get this valued work done. Hatti has identified good feedback as having the largest effect on student progress. It can affect us in the same way. Please make the most of this opportunity to gather good data, have robust conversations and be courageous in your actions to provide the best learning environment for all students.

As I mentioned in previous editions, the future is upon us and we need to work across several fronts,

• Senior Schooling structures
• technology
• enterprise skill development and
• positive, flexible delivery environment to ensure that schooling stays relevant and useful to our students.

Together with the work being done on creating a sense of belonging through the development of a positive learning environment, project-based learning with community partners and the developing senior school culture our agenda is really clearly defined.

I hope that you have a great term and have a chance to look back at our accomplishments so far as a break from our continuous forward focus on improvement.

En Avant

Mike Sinagra