From the Principal
From the Principal
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
Welcome to the short - Week 6. I love the long weekend this time of year. It is perfectly placed to rest, recharge and gather up our reserves to finish the term strong. I spent the weekend, checking out the cars at the Bunbury Bumper and Beats car show and honoured a long family tradition of making tomato sauce for the year. I hope that you found something to challenge your body, expand your mind and soothe your spirit.
A positive culture does not just appear and once created it doesn’t just keep going without a constant effort. Many people work hard to keep the grounds clean, tidy and up to date. The new
buildings and improvements, gardening and classroom repair and maintenance schedule all create a physical environment that contributes to the culture of high expectation of a particular standard at Bunbury Senior High School. You can contribute to this culture with a focus on the physical environment of your classroom. All your colleagues will appreciate your effort to contribute.
You might like to read further about how the focus on these small matters sets culture.
This story of NYC is based on the “Broken Windows Theory”
The theory assumes that the landscape "communicates" to people. A broken window transmits to criminals the message that a community displays a lack of informal social control and so is unable or unwilling to defend itself against a criminal invasion. It is not so much the actual broken window that is important, but the message the broken window sends to people. It symbolizes the community's defenselessness and vulnerability and represents the lack of cohesiveness of the people within. Neighbourhoods with a strong sense of cohesion fix broken windows and assert social responsibility on themselves, effectively giving themselves control over their space.
While discussing culture, the great work done by staff in running lunch time and after school clubs is greatly appreciated. I would really appreciate any help that anyone can give at the moment in setting our Year 7s on the right path of being model Bunbury SHS students. Currently, the Year 7s don’t really know what to do at break times and they congregate in big groups. This has the potential to go wrong. It hasn’t, and there is no need to be alarmed. If you run a lunch time club, have time to play some handball or kick a football with a Year 7 could you please do that over the next couple of weeks. Thank you in anticipation.
Have a great week.
En Avant
Mike Sinagra