My Education Day 8

Another successful My Education Day was held on Tuesday 31^st with Grade 10’s undertaking the “Love Bites” Program around respectful relationships. We had a team of experienced presenters in working with the Grade around these important topics that form part of our commitment as a school to provide and undertake explicit instruction around the Respectful Relationships curriculum. Grade 8 students were engaged with their through line around “volunteering” and had many guest presenters from volunteer organisations like the SES and St Johns Ambulance.

Grade 9 students engaged in the 'Not Even Once' presentation and also continued with their resume writing.  All Grades are undertaking the 2021 Student Wellbeing Survey which will give us valuable data relating to student wellbeing, connection and engagement which will support our School Improvement agenda moving forward into 2022.

Grade 10 Exams

This week is exam week for our Grade 10 students. Assessment strategies are varied at Kings Meadows High School and provide opportunities for our students to engage in a variety of ways to demonstrate their understandings. Formal examination settings may be viewed by some as somewhat outdated but are certainly still used as an assessment strategy across many institutions and entrance programs for some careers in our society. It is important that students are exposed to the many varied assessment forms and they are also an opportunity to value add to their assessments and results.

Sport Finals

We have many students undertaking sport finals both in school and out of school and I would like to wish each and every one of those students competing the best of luck in their endeavours. Certainly on the back of the Olympic and the Para-Olympic Games, I know that the competitive spirit has certainly been ignited for many over these past weeks. All the best to teams and individuals. I would like to let families and our community know that the annual Bulldog Cup that we hold each year (albeit an abbreviated version last year due to Covid restrictions) will be held on Wednesday 22nd September at Youngtown Oval.

Course Selections

All students have recently undertaken their course selections for option and enrichment courses for 2022. Parents are very much a part of this process and are required to sign the printed list of suggested courses that your child has chosen for 2022 which then needs to be returned to the school. If you have any questions or concerns about the courses, please do not hesitate to contact the school for more information. The course selection booklets are all available through the Canvas Home Room page for your child, so please ask them to share this with you to help understand what each course involves.

3 on 3 Basketball Competition

The Junior House Captains have organised a 3 on 3 Basketball Competition for students to undertake in their lunch times. A fabulous way to get some healthy competition amongst staff and students. A great initiative and well done to all.

Careers on Wheels Breakfast / Beacon HIP

On Thursday morning last week our Beacon Student Ambassadors hosted the Careers on Wheels Breakfast launch. Once again this was a fabulous event and the guests were not only briefed about the upcoming and highly successful Careers on Wheels Event to be held next term, but also were able to indulge in a wonderful breakfast catered for by our catering students. Thank you to all those attendees, the BSA’s for their wonderful work in co-ordinating the event with Mrs Selby and Mr Pedersen and the catering students for getting up bright and early to prepare the meal. We  look forward to another fabulous Careers On Wheels Event next term.

Prepare program

Another Beacon sponsored program “Prepare” which forms part of their High Impact Suite was held at school last Friday. This program engaged Grade 8 students around activities and topics relating to employability skills and preparing for their futures. Thank you to Mel and Ebony from the Beacon Foundation for running this program and continually supporting our school. Thank you to Mrs Selby for all her work in co-ordinating these programs for our students.

Teacher Assistant Appreciation Week

Last week was Teacher Assistant Appreciation Week and I would like to publicly acknowledge and thank all our wonderful Teacher Assistants for all the amazing work you all do to support, encourage, mentor and assist our students and staff each and every day. Schools would certainly be lost without you all and the care, concern and dedication to your work and the impact you have on our students is certainly admired by our school community. Thank you to:

Sandra Harvey, Grady Lynch, Jacinta Carswell, Karen Forsyth-Rowbottom, Nicole Madden, Rochelle Wright, Sandy Kerr, Bowen Pearce, James Costick, Nick Bennett, Priscilla Chilcott, Grant Holt and David Bye.

Warm regards