Teaching and Learning

National E-Smart week

This week is E-Smart week. Featuring the theme “Be your best self online”, this year’s event invites children and young people to explore what it means to be a positive digital citizen.This week-long event is a celebration of all the incredible work that our eSmart schools and libraries across the country are doing to promote positive digital citizenship. This event provides a chance for teachers, library staff, parents, and students alike to develop new and important skills.Some helpful websites for parents are:https://www.taminggaming.com/Commonsensemedia.orgesafety.gov.au

Big Write and VCOP Talk Homework

Big Write and VCOP Talk Homework

Our next Big Write will be held on Thursday 1st June, 2023. Our topic will be:

PAT-M and PAT-R

During the month of May, all students will be completing the Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) in Mathematics and Reading. PAT has been a regular part of our October assessment schedule, this will be the first time that we will be completing PAT twice a year as an adaptive version of the test which will adjust the questions while they are working through the assessment based upon their answers on previous questions. Younger students will be participating in the Early Years version of the test, which is not adaptive but does provide more support with the program reading the questions to them.

PAT will be used to inform the teachers of each student's individual skills and knowledge in the areas of Maths and Reading. This will give the teachers valuable data to inform classroom teaching and ensure that we are extending and supporting each student. 

PAT is a low stress assessment and we encourage students to do the best that they can. The Foundation students will be completing the PAT Early Years versions of the assessment.

The Grade 1 and 2 students will be completing either the PAT Early Years or PAT Adaptive versions of the assessment.

The Grade 3-6 students will be completing the PAT Adaptive versions of the assessment.

                                                         Learner Diversity

PSG Meetings are coming up in Week 8 of this term. 

We will be using PAM to complete meeting bookings - more info to be shared in the next few weeks.