Learning Conferences

Thank you to families for partnering with the school and supporting the learning journey of your child by attending the learning Conferences on Wednesday 17 April. This was an opportune time to hear from teachers and for students to reflect on their participation and engagement in class. A new term can provide time to set new goals and create schedules that further support their learning.

Our LEARN Model

On Friday 26 April, teaching and education support staff who work directly with our young people in the classroom brought their experience and passion for teaching to the development of lessons and curriculum to teach explicitly our School Wide Positive Behaviour framework.

We used our approach to creating a positive learning environment [see image] as a guide to thinking about teaching the how and the why of the behaviours aligned to our community values. In the Headstart program at the end of last year we rolled out some explicit lessons related to building relationships and the intention is during the course of the year to do the same looking at our other two core values, Acting Responsibly and Showing Respect.

To give you a taster of our approach below is a lesson developed by Greg Baker and Maddi Brunton on the Value of Acting Responsibly in the Classroom to Strive to do your Best Work.

They have designed the lesson to give our students the ability to say what it looks like and feels like to do your best and explicit strategies for building the habits and positive mindset skills to do your best.

I’m looking forward to reviewing the work of our fantastic educators and supporting them to deliver these lessons to our your people so that they can achieve their full potential.

Below is a lesson developed on the day:

For more information about our LEARN model please visit https://fairhillshs.vic.edu.au/learning/

or contact me directly

Dr Peter Morgan

Pedagogy and Curriculum Leader 7-10

peter.morgan3@education.vic.gov.au