Mabo House News
Mabo House Updates
Dear Mabo Students and families,
What a term it has been!
We have had 11 weeks of learning, building positive relationships and getting to know our new Year 7 Explore students.
The Mabo House had their first assembly where celebration of student achievement was our focus. It was a fantastic way to end the term and congratulations to all award recipients.
House pride has been a focus for us in Mabo, and to continue to strengthen our new House structure we have a few key House Events coming up:
- Week 2 - Cross Country: Thursday 5th May
- Week 3- House Mentor Session: Each house will choose a charity to align with!
- Week 4 - Athletics Carnival: Thursday 19th May
The Senior VCAL students are also working on leading House events throughout the term for Personal Development Skills which we are very excited for and will post more details in Term 2. We encourage students to show their house pride and participate in as many House events as possible to help us win the overall cup. We have won the swimming carnival and currently we are the leaders of Learning Habit Reports (GPA scores) with an average score of 3.18!!!!
Other houses scored averages below:
Hollows: 3.14
Walton: 3.13
Freeman: 3.09
Values Nominations
Our Mabo students have done an outstanding job this term with receiving Values Nominations from their teachers and school staff for displaying our core values. This term we have had the following number of nominations in each category:
We are so proud of your effort, keep up the great work and commitment to learning.
On behalf of the Mabo team, we would like to wish all of you a safe and restful holiday break filled with family friends and getting out and exploring. We cannot wait to see you back here on the 26th of March for a fantastic and exciting term 2 full of opportunity.
Warm Regards,
Erin Louden
Head of House
Celebrating our Mabo students
Learning Habits Report - Mabo Top Performers!
The first round of Learning Habits Reports for the year have been released to students & parents on Friday 18 March.
The “Learning Habits Report“ has replaced our GPA’s and is focused on recognising students growth and achievement in the following important areas of schooling:
- Effort
- Behaviour
- Self – Management
- Homework
The grading scale teachers use to determine the Learning Habit scores are below for you to become familiar with to support your child in setting learning goals for Term 2:
Each House Leadership Teams will be using the “Learning Habits Report” over the year to celebrate student improvement and success. We would like to recognise you for your efforts so far this year through this report and we would like to celebrate the following students with receiving the highest scores in their year level so far:
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
A quote from Mr O’Connor
“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere”
Mabo Staff Member of the Month!
Mabo Students of the Month!
Mabo Mentor
The Year 9 Mabo 1 Mentor group worked together to create a Harmony Week display in Miss Newton’s Mentor classroom. Every single member the class contributed in some way to the display. Everyone assisted in cutting the pieces and creating their individualised person that represents them. Some students went above and beyond to be a part of the design team assembling the display on our wall. Special mention to our design team; Casey Lumm, Antonio Barachina-Smith, Arooj Qalandari, Jvinson Hach and Sean Carter. The final result is bright and welcoming and a sensational reminder that we all belong in our classroom and treat each other with respect. 9 Mabo 1 is so proud of our display!
