Teaching and Learning

Congratulation

Congratulations on completing another wonderful year at SEPS. Our students have come so far in their learning and well-being journey.  

Some of the extra key learning experiences and opportunities our students experienced this year have been:

• School camps, Fun Day and excursions
• SEPS Academy and Collaborative Communities
• Various online workshops with well-known children authors
• Australian Maths Competition
• Maths Olympiad
• Maths Games
• L5 Maths Games at Elwood Primary
• L6 Virtual Maths Games
• Write a Book in a Day event
• Big Day in Junior Science event
• Bring It On Sports Clinics
• Dance Curriculum
• Upstanders forums and work with an artist
• Tomorrow's Leaders Sustainability workshop
• Sustainability Festival
• Gateways workshops
• Robotics
• Art show
• Market Day
• Unleashing Personal Potential workshop
• Mary Poppins production and Dance Showcase by Sandringham College
• Book Parade and Easter Hat Parade
• Environment Captains river excursion
• Healthy Beaches
• ANZAC Day Service and Parade
• 100 Days of School celebration
• Fire Fighters visit
• History Box

Wishing you all a well deserved break. The staff at SEPS are looking forward to all the exciting opportunities to come in 2025.

Science - Big Day In Jnr

Yesterday, we had 25 Level 5 and 6 students who attended the Bid Day In Jnr science event at Hampton Primary. Wilko supported the students, and from the feedback the students provided, it was a fabulous experience. One workshop called Solar Buddy was particularly outstanding. Students made a solar light that will be sent to 3rd world children so they can do their homework at night. The students, with each light, wrote a letter

 to the youth who would receive the light. 

Opportunities to Respond (OTRs)

Over the last couple of newsletters, I have talked about the work we are doing in response to current research on the science of learning. I shared how our students are using small whiteboards to share their responses to teacher prompting and questioning. The purpose of this is to increase engagement, as all students are continuously responding to what is being taught. Their responses are informative for the teacher, who can give corrective feedback instantly and also make key teaching decisions, e.g. whether to reteach a concept or move the learning on.

On Tuesday, the staff had a professional development session with Steph Murphy, one of our Education Improvement Leader (EIL), around ways students can share how they feel about their learning. This is an example of our Foundation students placing a red, yellow or green icy pole stick to let Ms Clark know how they are feeling about subtracting numbers.