Learning & Teaching
Hello STM families,
Yesterday, our Year 3 and Year 5 students completed their first NAPLAN assessment for the assessment period, and did a wonderful job completing a writing piece. Catch up sessions will be held next week, for any students who may have missed a session. Please reach out if you have any questions or wish to discuss any of the assessments.
The NAPLAN assessment period will be held from Wednesday 13 March to Monday 25 March. Please see below for the testing schedule for our school;
Wednesday 13th March - Writing
Year 3 from 9:00 am (duration 40 minutes)
Year 5 from 11:30 am (duration 42 minutes)
Friday 15th March - Reading
Year 3 from 9:00 am (duration 45 minutes)
Year 5 from 11:30 am (duration 50 minutes)
Tuesday 19th March - Conventions of Language (Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation)
Year 3 from 9:00 am (duration 45 minutes)
Year 5 from 11:30 am (duration 45 minutes)
Friday 21st March - Numeracy
Year 3 from 9:00 am (duration 45 minutes)
Year 5 from 11:30 am (duration 50 minutes)
Flourishing Learners Leadership Day
Last Friday, Marcia Janky, Belinda Saville, Donne Anderton and I crossed over the Westgate Bridge and made our way to Geelong to attend a leadership day with our western colleagues. The day focused on research-based best practices and evidence-based models of learning and teaching.
We spent the day learning from and working with Dr Wendy Moore on explicit instruction to further deepen our understanding of cognitive science and learning, and how this informs classroom practices. The afternoon session was spent with Sara Wiggins from Classroom Mastery who guided us through developing a behaviour curriculum centred around our school values. We began this work last year as we developed school values and norms as a school community.
Our values are...
Kindness - We treat others as we would like to be treated.
Fairness - Our school is a place where everyone can be their best.
Justice - We do what is right by making good choices.
We have a number of other professional learning days with our Flourishing Learners Network and look forward to further deepening our knowledge to ensure best practice for all of our students at STM.
In partnership,
Danielle
Deputy Principal
Learning & Teaching Leader