Student Wellbeing

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN OUR SCHOOL Engagement in Public Speaking

Thank you to Mr. Adam Walker, one of our Dads, for giving up his time to share his expertise with the Semi Finalists from Year One Two.  Mr. Walker engaged with our students about successful public speaking and imparted his wise tricks of the trade.  It is great to see members of the OHR Community working in partnership with the school to achieve great learning outcomes.

PARENTS POPPIN’ IN

Have you popped in recently?  You are warmly invited to “pop in” to your child’s classroom every morning from 8.30-8.40am.  Look at what’s happening in the classroom, check out the anchor charts, ask your child to share their workbooks with you or just have a chat about what you see with your child.  

One key action that parents can do to help their child to succeed at school is to have high expectations and consistently express belief in their child’s potential.

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

We believe Family Engagement at OHR is a shared and continuous responsibility between our families and the School. This partnership actively reinforces learning and supports both student growth and wellbeing.

Engaging in your child’s learning involves conversations and working alongside each other to optimise learning outcomes. We recognise that families have a powerful place in children’s development and in collaborating together, meaningful learning is enhanced.

Thank you to the parents who were able to participate in our Coffee morning feedback session about Family Engagement.  We discussed the three questions below and all the ideas that came forward. This forum will be repeated at the SAC meeting on the 18th June. We will take into consideration the parent feedback when planning strategies for enhanced family engagement in student learning. 

What is working well for you to engage in your child’s learning?

Learning Walks

Classroom visits

Maths Night

STEM Night

Parent help in the classroom

Class reps WhatsApp groups

What possible strategies could the school do that would support parents to engage in their child’s learning?

A follow up Maths evening with Michael Ymer (longer period of time)

Learning celebrations (open classroom before and after school) once per term

Literacy Evening (to include more information about reading levels/ expectations)  2025?

What is learning? How does this look in Literacy?

Classroom roster for helpers

SeeSaw to be used more regularly

Notice board to utilised in the playground

Provide more knowledge around the content being taught (Term overview) and the learning goals

Teaching and Learning section in the newsletter to include content/photos of learning in the classroom

Remind parents they are welcome to visit the classroom in the mornings to look at what’s happening and their child’s work (not a time for parent teacher interview)

Communication issues with families not reading the newsletter or some emails, what are some different ways to communicate?

What ways can you support the school and engage in the learning?

Advertising and marketing?  Professional photographer? Using parent expertise in the classroom

Parents to respond to email from Frank to ascertain acumen of our parent community 

Notice board updates about Teaching and Learning across the school

Sharing the messages and ideas discussed today

Reminders via WhatsApp group from the parent reps

Lisa Canty

Student Wellbeing Leader