Year 8 News

Hello everyone and welcome back to the school year. I would like to begin by introducing myself, Matthew Suter, as the Year 8 Team Leader. I am excited to be working with the Year 8 cohort this year. Having taught most of the cohort as their cooking teacher last year I’m looking forward to building on the positives we experienced and supporting them in a greater variety of areas to have as successful a year as possible. 

There will be lots of things for our students to look forward to this year and I can’t wait to see the great things that our students will achieve throughout the year. I look forward to connecting with you all during the year ahead.

At each of our assemblies I share a quote with our cohort. The quote reads:

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude” (Colin Powell)

KPA's

I have challenged the Year 8’s to be the best they can be and one of the measures we use to track this is Kurnai Positive Acknowledgements (KPA’s). Last year our average for the cohort was 140 KPA’s per week. This year most of our students have made a strong start with our week 1 KPA’s total of 322 and they continued that work by increasing our KPA’s to 479 in week 2. This data supports the feedback that a lot of staff have given me about the start our Year 8 students have made. Our new challenge is to now maintain our efforts while striving to demonstrate more of the positive learning habits we have shown at the start of the year. They have shown they can do it, now they have to continue to show it. We will shortly be releasing our first round of LBU’s and I can’t wait to see how our Year 8’s rise to the challenge and maintain these good learning behaviours.

Camp

On the 26th of February our Year 8 students will be heading up to Gelantipy to Karoonda Park for a 5-day camp. During this time, they will get the opportunity to participate in many great experiences, such as canoeing, horse riding, caving, hiking and much more. This will be a great time for our kids to develop stronger relationships within the cohort, all while participating in activities they wouldn’t do in a typical week. It will be lot’s of fun and I can’t wait until we get up there. 

Concerns or queries

If you have any concerns or queries about any of the items mentioned above, Year 8 student matters, or just general inquiries, please do not hesitate to give the year 8 team a call on 51323700 or email Matthew Suter.         

Matthew.Suter@education.vic.gov.au

Matt Suter

Year 8 Team Leader