Sacred Heart College Newsletter

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL - TEACHING AND LEARNING

Mrs Susan Carrick

INDEPENDENT LEARNING THIS TERM

A reminder that there is a change in the dates of the two Years 11 and 12 Independent Learning Days in Term 3. The Independent Learning Day scheduled for Tuesday 2 August (Week 3) has been moved to coincide with the Years 7-12 Learning Conferences on Wednesday 27 July (Week 2). Wednesday 27 July was previously scheduled as a Pupil Free Day, but students in Years 11 and 12 are now expected to use this day for Independent Learning @ Home. 

 

All students are expected at school as usual on Tuesday 2 August.

 

The second Independent Learning Day scheduled for Tuesday 30 August (Week 7) has been pushed back to Tuesday 6 September (Week 8). All students are expected at school as usual on Tuesday 30 August.

YEAR 7: DIVING DEEP INTO THE SACRED HEART LEARNER ATTRIBUTES

Over this semester, Year 7 students will be working through a series of challenges designed to make them dig deep into four of the six Sacred Heart Learner attributes:

  • Innovation
  • Critical thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Perseverance

Understanding and developing each of these attributes is fundamental to developing our students as learners, not just for success at school, but for success in life.

 

While not directly the focus of the program, the other two attributes will be on show as students work through every challenge in

  • their active engagement in the team activities.
  • their emerging independence as they take responsibility for the achievement of each challenge and getting the task job done within the time frame.

PCG groups will rotate through four units across the semester with Mr Justin Whitt, Mrs Sandra Manning, Mr Michael Chiera and myself. While the key aim is to foreground the importance of these ‘soft skills’ and increase students’ awareness of what each requires, the other (equally important aspect) is for students to have fun! Finding joy in learning is a critical aspect of education that is often overlooked or, at best, on the margins of our classrooms, and we plan to put joy front and centre in each of our ‘challenges’.

 

You can see the semester program below and some pictures of the students making a start this week with the Balloon Tower Challenge, Photo Finish and The Baggy Skit …

 

UNIT A: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION with Mr Michael Chiera

  • The Baggy Skit (pictured) - students use four random items to make a skit
  • Newspaper/Recycled Outfit
  • New Out of Two
  • Lego Challenge

UNIT B: CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING with Mrs Sandra Manning

  • Drop the Ball
  • Balloon Tower (pictured) - students are challenged with creating a standing tower using only balloons
  • Lifeboat Challenge
  • Save Fred 

UNIT C: COLLABORATION AND TEAMWORK with Mrs Susan Carrick

  • Draw Back-to-Back
  • Blind Origami
  • Wriggle Rope
  • Spider's Web

UNIT D: PERSEVERANCE AND POSITIVE MINDSET with Mr Justin Whitt

  • Index Card Tower
  • Learn to Juggle
  • Photo Finish (pictured) - students must take a photo while they are all jumping in the air and must all be completely in the frame
  • All Shook Up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Susan Carrick

Deputy Principal - Teaching and Learning