Student Wellbeing
Blue Light Award Winners for May/June
At the start of this year, we developed a partnership with Ballarat Police to award students for positive attendance, behaviour, and overall effort towards learning. Each month, we have nominees put forward from various year levels on behalf of the teachers. From those nominees, we select a student to receive the award. Accompanying the wonderful medallion (seen below) is also a free pass to the Blue Light discos, which the Ballarat Police supervise and build positive connections within the community.
At our last assembly Des presented the awards to:
Jaxom Elliot – Prep
Cody Manson – Grade 3
Dan Wang – Grade 6
Well done to Jaxom, Cody and Dan! We’re so proud of your efforts!
PLP Meeting Reminder
A reminder to all of our PLPs that there is a meeting scheduled for this Friday the 10th of August at 2:30pm. If you are unable to make the meeting, we ask that you please organise another representative to share your class’ views. We look forward to seeing you there!
Cubby / Inclusion Project
At our school we have 7 students that identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Part of our work on inclusion has been to engage the teachers of these students in working with our Koorie Education Support Officer from the Department of Education and Training. At our most recent meeting, the team was tossing around ideas to connect more indigenous culture into our school and one such idea was to create totem poles. Linking this, with needing a designated cubby area for the kids to play in, we feel that it would make great sense to border our cubby area with totems that the students can design and work on telling the story of Buninyong. Below is an image of our current progress. Please stay tuned as more information comes out about our design competition.
Student Attitude to School Results
Over the break our 2018 Student Attitude to School results became available. This year our grade 4-6s were surveyed and this was the second time that grade 4s participated across the state. This year’s survey was to find out how the students felt about the following areas:
- Effective Teaching Practice
- Teacher Student Relations
- Learner Characteristics & Disposition
- Social Engagement
- Student Safety
- Experience of Bullying
We receive separate results for each campus and generally the results are positive and reflect the overall positive culture of our school. Over the coming weeks we will be working with staff to analyse the results and our grade 4-6 teachers will workshop with their students to develop a greater understanding of what the kids are feeling and how we can go about improving our school further.
Our school council will also take a close look at the results on Monday night and all parents are invited along to our PLP meeting (August 10, 2:30), where we’ll do the same. So, if these results are of interest to you, please come along.
2018 Year 7 Student Transition Survey
Over the past term we have been working on developing a transition survey that can be administered to our families who have students in year 7. The aim of this survey is to undertand how well we prepare (through our whole school programs and processes) students for life at secondary school and to enhance our process with the aim to to ensure all students have a successful transition to secondary school.
If you had a child who was in year 6 last year, please expect a letter in the mail soon explaining how to complete the survey.