Teaching and Learning

School Improvement Agenda for 2020 will focus on:          

• Australian Curriculum and Moderation processes
• Effective pedagogy to engage students
• Creative and Critical Thinking

Since students have returned to school the focus has been on English, Maths and Science.  Teachers are making the most of every learning opportunity to ensure students have every opportunity to engage with their term 2 learning.

Each year level will have a moderation session with the Leadership Team during week 9 or 10.  Our moderation process aligns curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting.  Each year level moderation provides consistency of delivery of the curriculum and assessment and A-E achievement.

All Teachers will attend a Twilight session in Week 10, the focus will be on Term 3 curriculum, planning and assessment.

A recent staff professional learning session focussed on a webinar called Beautiful Questions. 

• We need to encourage children to ask more questions.
• Teacher questioning is important, but we do need to focus our attention on emphasising and encouraging student questioning.
• Questions are more powerful than we could imagine. Questions lead to innovation.
• Tend to put emphasis on answers, it starts with asking the right question.

I’ve included below 5 questions Parents can ask their children to encourage children to talk about their learning.

Report Cards will be emailed home on Friday 26 June.  Please ensure your email address on our school records is correct.

Curriculum Overviews for Parents are provided each semester. The documents provide detailed information on the curriculum that has been taught throughout the semester. Parents can refer to the overviews when reading the achievement standards on the report cards.

The Curriculum Overviews are also available on the school website.

Student Safety a number of parents have contacted me to raise concerns about student safety around the school with the increase of cars around the school. 

Student safety is our top priority, please be patient when dropping off and collecting your children from school and adhere to road rules.

Neighbours around the school have also raised concerns with parents double parking and parking across driveways whilst waiting to collect children.

If you have any concerns for road safety and parking around the school please contact the Brisbane City Council.

For the safety of our students, please follow the road rules and observe safety procedures around the school.

Playgrounds are out of bonds before and after school every day.  Each afternoon there have been a number of children playing on the Outdoor Learning Area, this area is also out of bounds before and after school.

Parents and Caregivers are invited to participate in this year’s School Opinion Survey and have a say about schooling during the COVID-19 lockdown.  You are also given the opportunity to provide feedback about our school more generally.

Participation in the survey is anonymous and you are encouraged to take this opportunity to have your say.  The survey form has been designed so that it can easily be completed on a computer or smartphone. The online survey will be available until Friday, 17 July 2020, and should take less than five minutes to complete.

To access the survey, please click on the link below or copy and paste it into your web browser:

Parent survey – https://survey.qed.qld.gov.au/form/Parents-HaveYourSay

Please contact the school if you have any questions about the survey.

Have a great week and enjoy the holidays when they arrive.  School will start back on Monday 13 July.

Melissa