Head of Middle Years

IB MYP Learning

MYP Community Project Day

As part of the MY Step-Up programme, the Year 8 cohort will experience a "Community Project Day". The purpose of this day will be to introduce the students to the MYP Community Project, a culminating experience that the current Year 8 cohort will complete during Year 9 in 2022. 

What is the Community Project?

A solo or group project where students identify a need of a particular community and ultimately take action to address that need. 

What are the aims of the Community Project?

As with the Personal Project, which the Year 10 students have just completed, the Community Project allows opportunities for students to:

• Engage in self-directed inquiry within a global context
• Experience creative new insights and deeper understandings through in-depth investigation
• Demonstrate the skills, attitudes and knowledge required to complete a project over an extended period
• Communicate effectively in a variety of situations
• Demonstrate responsible action through, or as a result of, learning
• Appreciate the process of learning and take pride in their accomplishments

What will students learn through the MYP projects? 

MYP projects involve students in a wide range of activities to extend their knowledge and understanding and to develop their skills and attitudes.

These student-planned learning activities include:

• Deciding what they want to learn about, identifying what they already know, and discovering what they will need to know to complete the project
• Creating proposals or criteria for their project, planning their time and materials, and recording developments of the project
• Making decisions, developing understandings, and solving problems, communicating with their supervisor and others, and creating a product or developing an outcome evaluating the product/outcome and reflecting on their project and their learning

Source: International Baccalaureate®. 2021. Project study in the MYP | International Baccalaureate®. [online] Available at: <https://www.ibo.org/programmes/middle-years-programme/curriculum/myp-projects/> [Accessed 17 November 2021].

Student Learning

Science Week Brain Break Quiz Awards

In August, we celebrated National Science Week, with this year’s theme being, “Food: Different by Design”. Unfortunately, like many other activities this year, the Science Team were required to adapt our celebrations to online activities only, one of which was a daily online brain break quiz. Prizes were awarded to the highest scorer in each class, as well as to the overall Year level champion. Congratulations to all the winners and a huge thank you to everyone who participated.

Neilansh V (7GK)      

Kevin H (7LI) 

Yafet B (7NB) 

Mehak J (7SN) 

Overall Year 7 Champion – Mehak J

Maths Talent Quest

The Maths Talent Quest (MTQ) is a great way to support student’s numeracy development as they engage in mathematical investigations. MTQ is an annual activity aimed at promoting interest in Mathematics and fostering positive attitudes amongst students, teachers, and parents. The focus of the MTQ is on the process of mathematical investigations and relating mathematics to everyday life.

The student entries are judged at school and the best two from each category at each year level is sent to the State Finals.

This year, five entries qualified for State Finals. Students from our College received one Credit, one Distinction and three High Distinction Awards.

Pearl P’s Investigation into the mathematics related to a Solar Dart Board was the Victorian winner and it qualified for the National Finals. What a wonderful achievement for all students! Congratulations. 

Parenting Tips

As teachers, we are quite often asked how to encourage organisational and time management skills in students. Whilst there is no simple ‘one size fits all’ strategy, it is often something that needs to be learnt by individuals. With support and guidance from parents/guardians, young adolescent individuals can slowly establish great management strategies that they can use in not only their studies, but also in their everyday lives. The following short article investigates this topic!

https://www.verywellfamily.com/teaching-time-management-skills-to-teens-2608794