New Shade Structure

After months of anticipation and expectation we finally have our new shade structure over the basketball court. This new structure will provide our boys with shade throughout the day and a waterproof outdoor space for them to play under during wet weather. I want to take this opportunity on behalf of the boys and teachers to express our sincere thanks to the P&F for their enormous contribution to funding this project. It is a credit to our small community that such significant fundraising is possible for the benefit of our boys and their learning. Planning will commence shortly on an official opening ceremony which will include last year’s Year 6 parents.

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Learning Portfolios

At the conclusion of every second Unit of Inquiry the students will bring home a learning portfolio that contains a work sample from each curriculum area. The purpose of the portfolio is to provide a snapshot of your son’s class work. We hope that the work samples provide evidence of learning; understanding of content and concepts; and growth in the attributes of the Learner Profile, the PYP Attitudes and the PYP Transdisciplinary Skills.

Each time the portfolio comes home you will be able to track your son’s growth and development by comparing the samples of work contained in each plastic sleeve. For this reason we request that all work samples be left in the Portfolio (even at the end of the year). This will allow progress to be seen, not only over the year but across year levels.

If you haven’t returned your son’s Portfolio from last year could you please do so by Monday 11 February?

PYP (Primary Years Programme)

As promised at the Parent Information Night we have included a summary page of all of the language associated with the PYP. We hope that this might be something that you can print and place in a prominent place in your house (maybe the fridge) to assist in conversations about your son’s learning. Please click here for the PYP summary page.

It was great to meet with some of our new parents on Monday morning to unpack the PYP and highlight the ways we are seeking to make learning significant, engaging, relevant and challenging for each of our boys. A copy of this presentation will be loaded onto Spaces shortly. If you weren’t able to make this or have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact myself, Joel Weekes (Teaching and Learning Team Leader) or Ashley Barg (Assistant PYP Coordinator).

Advanced Notice: We will be holding our next Parent Information Session on Wednesday 27 February at 8:30am and 6:30pm. The topic of this session will be “PYP and Mathematics…the road ahead”. We hope that you might be able to join us for this interactive session.