Post on 11-Jan-2016
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What is Middle Years?
• Middle Years spans from the age of 10 through to 14.
• Experience significant physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral changes.
• More rapid and dramatic hormonal and structural changes than at any other period in their life.
• Changes to brain and cognitive development peak during this period.
• Success comes through managing the emotional, social and moral challenges of this stage.
Why Middle Years at Malvern Central School?
• Malvern Central School is a unique context that caters for students through to Year 8.
• Unique with a dedicated team of teachers teaching in the Middle Years area – meaning that all teachers know all students.
• Malvern Central School teachers are specialists in catering for the needs of Middle Years students from Years 5 through to Year 8.
What does Middle Years learning, playing, developing, socialising look like at Malvern Central School?
• curriculum that is negotiated, relevant and challenging
• flexible and mixed student groupings
• cooperative learning and collaborative teaching
• ownership of learning and taking responsibility for decisions and actions
• building social skills
• higher order thinking
SPACES
Positive Psychology
Student Choice – what did the students say aboutStudent Choice’ at Malvern Central School ?
The programs I enjoy/learn most from are (you may choose as many as you like):
The graph shows that Performing Arts and P.E were the most popular programs.
Some Middle Years students would like more opportunities to
participate in activities such as cooking,
sports, performances
, learning other
languages, ICT, robotics, gymnastics, book clubs
and woodwork.
Student Choice – what did the students say about ‘Student Choice’ at Malvern Central School?
I learn best in groups when:
This graph shows that
students learn best in groups when: they are with
their friends; they are with a
mixture of both boys and girls; and when they are working
with students in their year
level.
Discovery Program
Junior School Council
Japanese
Literature Discussion Groups:
Student Reflections
I’ve enjoyed
discussing the books.
You get to be with other
people that you
normally don’t socialise
with but that you share
a common interest with.
I like the way that we got involved in a story and used stick it notes.
It was interesting
working with the
students in different
classes …hearing what
they thought of the
books.
We got to know people that we wouldn’t really speak to before.I liked the books
because we actually got into the real meaning of the story.
Science
The Arts
Sports
Camps & Excursions
Advance Program
Thank You.
Any question
s?