Welcome to Week 7.  Students are now working steadily on assessments for their learning areas.  NAPLAN is administered from Wednesday of Week 8.  There will be no parade in Week 8 to ensure the smooth running of NAPLAN. 

Annual Implementation Plan (AIP)

Our Priority for 2023 is “Calliope State School embraces Equity and Excellence for All”. We have three strategies to achieve this. This week I will continue to focus on our first action, Approach to Pedagogy. Our second strategy is to embed Visible Learning (Hattie) using Learning Walls and the 5 questions (Sharratt) to develop assessment literate learners. Students are able to access learning walls in their classrooms to understand what is required for their assessments. To further develop student understanding of their learning, five questions are asked,

1. What are you learning in this session?

2. In relation to the what you are learning, how do you think you are going – At, Above or Below achieving the lesson intent?

3. Why are you learning this?

4. How do you know you are achieving at, above or below?

5. How can you achieve/improve the learning goal of this lesson? What can you access to help you improve? (Sharratt 2008-2019)

 Parent and Community Code of Conduct

The Parent and Community Code of Conduct (PDF, 386KB) (the Code) describes the ways in which parents, carers and visitors should conduct themselves while on Queensland state school grounds, at school activities, and when interacting with others in the school community. We welcome parents and other members of our diverse community into schools across Queensland.  Working together with their school community, school staff support the learning and wellbeing of every student, and are entitled to a safe work environment. Parents and other visitors to schools support safety by ensuring their communications and conduct at the school and school activities is respectful.

There are three elements of engagement.  They are Communication, Collaboration and School Culture.  This week’s newsletter focuses on Collaboration.

Scooters

A reminder to all of our students and community that scooters are not to be ridden at all in school grounds. Scooters are also not to be ridden in front of the school from the bridge to the end of the pool.  We have had some close incidents where both adults and children have collided with students riding scooters in these busy areas.  Please keep everyone safe by reminding children to walk scooters in these areas.