Day 5 St Rita's - Vanessa Crouch

How do you see the school’s educational and faith vision and mission informing and shaping daily practice? Christian meditation as part of prayer in Year 2 OTHER NOTES Yr2 - Ask 3 before me Chair bags.., not flexible learning space Reading 2 learn this is a reading a writing process that is very specific and focused. This is a very particular way of teaching. the school has invested a lot of time into this process. They will continue to inservice...

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Day 4 St Rita's - Vanessa Crouch

I know it's been a week but life as a teacher can be very busy! I've now got some time to finish processing the experience :) How do you see the school’s educational and faith vision and mission informing and shaping daily practice? The prayer experience in prayer with Prep today was beautiful. Not only was the experience beautiful but the Preps have clearly learned what it means to be part of the St Rita's community. They were certainly showing...

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Leadership Team Debrief

Leadership Team Debrief: On the last day of our placement, we were given the opportunity debrief with the Leadership Team. It was a great opportunity to ask a few final questions and discuss the week. It was also an opportunity to report positive experiences and observations back to the school. One of the questions we had was around the use of textbooks within the school. In most Mathematics lessons we saw, textbooks were the main teaching tool observed. Each grade had different text books which they worked through. We didn’t observe...

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Day 3 St Rita's - Vanessa Crouch

Day 3 St Rita's How do you see the school’s educational and faith vision and mission informing and shaping daily practice? Sue Maclean STIE Support Teacher Inclusive Educator took us through the behaviour learning process. There is a clear restorative practices evident. How are they using data to inform decision making? Data very prominent. Used in particular by Sue to demonstrate and determine students which need adjustment. The Business...

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Day 2 St Rita's - Vanessa Crouch

How do you see the school’s educational and faith vision and mission informing and shaping daily practice? The ST RITA mission It is very evident from observations in all classrooms that the ST RITA vision and mission is an integral part of the daily life of the classrooms and the school. This week the focus is How can I be the best I can be? During the HPE prep class lesson the teacher - Dan Kenyon  discussed question of week with...

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Day 5 - St Rita's Victoria Point Group Reflection

This morning we visited Year 2. Their main focus for this morning is the Reading To Learn program. The program involves a focus on one text for three to four weeks. This texts provides learning activities for reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation. The introduction of the text involves a whole class reading of the book and then a focus on the text, looking in particular at the structure and the grammar. The children were involved...

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Great Use of Different Furniture

Had to post a short clip of my favourite furniture layout. This is the Year 2 Class quietly reading after their visit to the church to celebrate the Feast Day of St Aloysius. I love how they comfortably use the variety of seating arrangemen...

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Day 4 - St Rita's Victoria Point Group Response

Day 4: St Rita’s Victoria Point Our day today started with a beautiful prayer and sharing session in Prep. Today was a special day in that it was ‘Share and Prayer’. The parents are invited to hear about what the students have been learning and be involved in prayer. The prayer focused on the student of the week where each student was given an opportunity to say thank you to God for for the student of the week. Each child was encouraged to share...

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DAY 4 at St Joseph's Como. Prue and Anne-Maree

When considering your home school what might be some approaches you could put to your staff for consideration? Why are the learning environments engaging? What is going on to ensure each student progresses? 1. Today we were able to see part of 'AIM' (Achievement Integration Model) in action in one of the Year 4 classrooms. It was great to see engaged students working at their own pace and level. AIM was developed by a number of teachers...

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Reflections Day 4 - Abbie

When considering your own class teaching/organisation, what might be three approaches you have observed that could be adopted? ·       *  Flexible working spaces: (More obvious within upper grades) students can choose to sit where they want and this changes regularly so they are working in different structures with different people all the time. The furniture allowed for this as it was modular/moveable. There were really...

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Day 4 – St Aloysius Cronulla – David & Lauren.1

Day 4 – St Aloysius Cronulla – David & Lauren.1 How are they using data to inform decision making? St Aloysius is very similar to our schools in their data collection using the same methods and very similar tests i.e. ACER, BERT, Torch etc. They store this data in a central excel document in which this updated so they can track the progress of students and the grades and address needs when necessary. With their maths programs in...

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