Dear Parents,

Congratulations to students and teachers in Years 3-6 on a wonderful effort at the Parish Sports last Thursday. It was such a great community day and I thank all of the parents for coming along to support our students. Thanks to Emily Reed for her excellent organisation of the event.

Days like our Parish Athletics are so important for our students providing opportunities for them to shine, use their learning powers and dispositions and put our school’s tool kit to action ensuring they are ready and able to compete for their team.

Go Aussies! What a great effort from the Matilda's- talk about dispositions! These girls had complete control of thinking, solving problems, collaborating, being strategic, changing and adapting and being innovative. This term we are focussing on the dispositions and learning powers our students require to flourish. We use the ELLI dimension learning powers and dispositions to ensure our students are developing their ability to cope with any learning task that they engage with. The four ELLI dispositions of resourcefulness, resilience, reflection and reciprocity are all in action in sport, in Wakakirri and in our daily learning.

Aistear defines dispositions as ‘enduring habits of mind and action. A disposition is the tendency to respond to situations in characteristic ways.’

(Aistear, 2009, p.54).

A child’s disposition to learning affects the attitude with which they learn.
Learning dispositions directly affect the effort that students are willing to put in.
Positive learning dispositions go a long way to creating positive learning outcomes.

The slide show below outlines the learning powers and dispositions and includes a continuum from Prep to 6.

Dispositions and Learning Powers

Best of luck to our Year 4/5/6 students this Tuesday as they compete at the Frankston Cultural centre at the 2023 Wakakirri. Their dance story looks brilliant and I look forward to seeing it all in action. A huge thank you to Sue Jackson for her excellent leadership in this years' Wakakirri and to all who have helped in any way to ensure our students have the opportunity to participate in such an amazing event.

Thank you to all parents who attended Family Fun Friday last week. It was such a wonderful afternoon where parents and children were sharing learning.

Thankyou to all parents who have volunteered to help with the following fundraising events. All money raised this year will go to the playground upgrade on the oval which is set to commence in Term 4.

Save the dates

Fathers Day stall Friday 1st September
Chocolate box drive end of term 3
Parent Social Night - Saturday October 22nd
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle- November Date TBC
Christmas Carols and Family Night- Friday December 8th

Finally, we will be sending home the MACS opinion survey in the next couple of weeks and we would appreciate all families completing the survey to give us feedback on our wonderful school.

Yours in Partnership,

Gab

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