School Life Updates

Lego Donations Wanted

Year 3 are doing a stem unit of work on Built Environments. We would love any donations of Lego that you are no longer using to assist with our Science unit. If you have any that you would like to donate would you mind sending it into the front office, we would be extremely grateful.

Gemma Seedsman

Flipped Classroom

Time in the Classroom for Higher Order Learning involving the ‘Flipped Learning’ Model.

KWS Science teacher and Head of Richards House, Pete Whiting has been named in the 2018  FLGI 100. The annual Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI) list identifies the top 100 K-12 educators who are driving the adoption of Flipped Learning around the world. Educators from around the globe are represented, including Flipped Learning practitioners from Italy, China, Taiwan, Spain, UAE, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, Korea, Argentina, Iceland, Sweden, India, and the United States.

Pete Whiting completed his Bachelor of Science from University of New England in 2003 and commenced working as a research scientist for CSIRO as a biochemist. He completed a post graduate Bachelor of Education in 2007. As a Targeted Graduate for the NSW DET, he commenced working in Sydney’s south-west. Pete joined the staff of KWS in 2011. Inspired by the Digital Education Revolution student laptops and a book that a colleague had left in the staffroom, Pete started flipping his classroom in 2013. He was awarded the 2014 Principal’s Initiative Award for his work in pioneering the ‘Flipped Classroom’ at KWS.

Pete and KWS Science colleague John Catterson started team teaching under the flipped classroom model in 2015 and began conducting action research into the effectiveness of the Flipped Classroom. Their YouTube channels, “Mr Catterson” “Mr P Whiting” have reached more than 600,000 views with more than 1000 videos between them.

Pete Whiting has presented his research findings at National and International Flipped Learning Conferences, the European Commission (EU) eTwinning conference and will present again in July at CONASTA 67 ( science education conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association).  He has had his work published in Science Education and Flipped Learning Journals.   

Susan Cameron

Club 3:16

Last weekend, Club 3:16 members (22 students from KWS) as well as 13 from Orange Anglican Grammar School joined together for our annual camp in Katoomba. The camp was called KYCK (http://www.kyck.kcc.org.au/) which is a conference for teenagers. KYCK is held over 3 consecutive weekends, totalling over 6,200 attendees. The group had an amazing time with great speakers (on 1 Peter), singing and generally having fun getting to know one another. The group is already looking forward to KYCK next year!

Club 3:16 meets every Friday lunch and I look forward to catching up with all our KYCK attendees and others interested in learning more about Jesus.

The meeting room for Term 2 will be in Room 23 (Bennett Building). Bring your lunch and I look forward to seeing you there!

Yooie Choi

Club 3:16 coordinator