HEAD OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

As part of the learning process, both academically and with life skills, the College aims to provide our students with a wide range of opportunities to explore their experiences and learning through reflection. This is a vital aspect of education that helps our students to understand where an issue arose, and to make better choices for the future. It benefits their relationships with family, with friends and with their school work.

The Cambridge English dictionary defines reflection as “serious and careful thought.” Reflection is a skill that many adults apply to their daily life automatically because they have developed this skill over a number of years and through a range of experiences. However, for students, it is not a skill that comes easily, nor without practice. That is why we have included reflection during this term’s wellbeing program. As part of the wellbeing program this term, students at the College are looking at reflection. 

Over the next three weeks, students will examine reflection; how to reflect effectively, its purpose and how they can use their reflections to learn from the past and plan for the future. Our students will reflect on their experience, reflect on their learning and then apply it to their lives. We want to ensure that our students are as prepared as possible to not only grow while at the College, but also to be engaged citizens in the Wagga community. Given the year that we have had as a community, it is also timely to engage in reflective thinking to strengthen our ties with each other, and with our broader community. As always, I encourage you to speak with your child and to assist them in reflecting and to practise with them at home and as a family.

Christopher Ingold | Head of Secondary School