Kaye Lowe Visit

This week we had a visit from Adjunct Associate Professor Kaye Lowe. Kaye spent time in the lower grades working with students and teachers on reading and writing.

What is the take home message?

Refresh the book shelf, maintaining motivation, interest and the joy of reading is very important in the development of readers. It is therefore important to make sure that students’ books are updated to ensure their interest is maintained. As their reading increases their interests will change and the books that they want to pick up may be different. This applies to students beyond year two, so could I encourage you to reinvest in the conversations around books- ask your child, what are you reading at the moment, are there other books that you are interested in, what are they?

It’s the Perryman Pass

With only three and a half weeks to go and my goal still not reached, it’s probably time I up the motivation for the students. So with that in mind I encourage those students to come and see me with their work and to find out what the reinforcement will be for doing so.

Please join us…..

Throughout 2019, St Pat’s have been part of a program called Challenging Learning. The program is as the name suggests how we can make learning challenging. On 2 December from 7.30-8.30pm, George Telford will be running a workshop for parents-

HOW PARENTS CAN HELP THEIR CHILDREN

TO BECOME GREAT LEARNERS!

Please join us - babysitting will be provided. Please contact Elise if you require babysitting.

Caz Perryman

Venue: St Patrick’s Library

Time: 7:30pm (1 hour session)

Date:MONDAY 2^nd DECEMBER

Presenter: George Telford

Come along on the 2^nd December to hear about:

• Growth Mindsets – what they really are.
• Fixed Mindsets- and why we don’t want learners to have them.
• Learning Language- and how you can be a big help at home!
• Praise- it can be good………. or not so good!
• The importance of the right kind of feedback - and how important the parent role is in this.
• Challenge- is it better to get the easy stuff right, or struggle with the more interesting and challenging stuff?
• Why your school is involved in this learning and how an already very good school can become even better.
• How a focus on improvement will more naturally lead to
• What high schools notice about growth mindset learners.

George Telford is a former classroom teacher and Principal in Victorian schools for 35 years. He helped implement these changes at his own school with results that you might be interested in! George is now the Senior Consultant and Australian Director for Challenging Learning.  Challenging Learning are working with St Patrick’s on 2^nd December. This night is designed especially for parents/carers and it would be wonderful to see you there.