“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.”

Twilight Professional Learning Series for Staff

This week saw our teaching staff engage in the first of their three Twilight Professional Learning sessions for 2023.

Staff had the opportunity to select a focus area from our Quality Teaching and Learning Framework, aligned to our School’s Annual Improvement Plan.

Topics included:

• Differentiated Teaching - understanding our range of learners and how we can best support them
• Explicit Teaching – pedagogical strategies to boost student engagement and retention of learning
• Learning Environments: Digital – learning about the new digital platform for Queensland schools – Q Learn
• Learning Environments: Social and Physical – building effective relationships with others

Through our Twilight series, staff will reflect on current practices, learn about practical strategies to apply to their classes, and engage in collaborative inquiry to drive improvement in outcomes for our learners.

Enrich

As a culminating task in Enrich this term, Year 7 and 8 students were asked to create a game to showcase their learning in a subject area of their choice. They were required to show their communication skills by creating a set of written instructions, and collaboration skills by working with a partner or in a small group to create their game.

Pictured below are students in Ms Madsen’s 7H Enrich class collaborating on their creations.