Changing the Way We Think
Our Professional Learning Centre
Moama Anglican Grammar Professional Learning Centre presents “Planning and Programming the Revised Year 11 Standard/Advanced Syllabus” .
Date: Friday 4 August
Time: 9:00am to 3:30pm
Presenter: Karen Stapleton, Education Consultant, AIS NSW
Venue: Harkness Room, Resource Centre Moama Anglican Grammar
Cost: $120 per participant (includes morning tea and lunch)
Future Connections 2017
Moama Anglican Grammar invites leaders and teachers to register for the inaugural rural and regional schools conference on Friday 28 April and Saturday 29 April.
This conference is for all schools, whether government or non-government and any religious affiliation. It is the conference for all leaders and teachers wanting to connect with educators in other schools and learn from each other.
The aims of the conference are to:
- provide an opportunity for educators in rural and regional schools to connect and share their knowledge and experiences
- learn of initiatives taking place across sectors
- discuss the future of education in the rural and regional context
- learn from the research in youth health and wellbeing in rural and regional settings
- continue to develop great school leaders.
An important focus of this conference is on leadership development through understanding your own impact on those around you. All participants in 2017 will receive a behavioural profile report as part of the conference fee. This includes an individual 1.5hour debrief / coaching conversation with Janine Stratford, Executive Coach, in the immediate weeks following the conference. The feedback on the profiling and the impact it has had on leadership styles, communication clarity and addressing differences between perception and reality has been both positive and powerful.
Janine Stratford, Executive Coach at Coaching Focus, has put together the conference for Moama Anglican Grammar. She works with schools in leadership development. Janine strongly believes in connecting people and rural and regional schools have less opportunity to connect with each other. We are hoping this conference can be a feature of the annual school calendar and allow rural and regional educators to come together, connect, develop collegial relationships and learn from each other.
Registrations are now open here.
Parent Education - Seminar Series "Parenting Strategies for Teenage Success"
Save this date: Tuesday 14 March, 6:00 - 7:30pm. Watch this space for more information next newsletter.
In this seminar you will expect to learn how to:
- Support your child in becoming well organised and to develop positive study habits
- Set practical ground rules to manage work ethic and social media distractions
- Communicate effectively to help build your child's learning confidence for academic success by developing a growth mindset.
Year 7 Study Skills Workshop
Tuesday 14 March Periods 5 & 6
In this seminar Year 7 students can expect to learn how to:
- Raise their learning confidence by having high expectations and achieving stretch goals
- Manage their health and wellbeing through good sleep, hygiene and diet
- Manage their social media distractions
- Use their brain more powerfully so they can learn, remember and revise more effectively.
Parent Education - Seminar Series "Get Happier Project"
On Wednesday Primary parents were invited to take part in the Get Happier Project seminar run by Ivan Honey. Ideas presented not only help children feel better about themselves, but also allowed parents to discover a positive process for solving problems and increasing co-operation.
Visible Thinking Workshop
On Wednesday our Year 11 and 12 students were joined by Karin Morrison. Karin is a faculty member at Project Zero Summer Institute (Harvard) and works on Visible Thinking projects (including PZ Connect) which is an online learning project. She initiated "Leading Learning that Matters", which has been introduced in Australia and highlights the application of innovative techniques to foster the desire to learn and think critically among students.
Karin worked through a number of thinking routines that will help preliminary and HSC students learn course material more thoroughly and get the most from their learning time.