TERM 2 WEEK 3 | 12th May 2016 Dear Families As many of you would be aware, Janine is on long service leave unl the end of this term and I am principal while she is away. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first week at Bungaree and wish to thank the staff, students and families for making me feel welcome. I’m not all that interesng so I won’t spend me in this newsleer talking about me… rather, I’d like to talk about some of the great things I’ve already seen at Bungaree and hopefully get you excited about the things that connue to happen as the school strives to offer your child the best educaon possible. Walking around the school and spending me in classrooms two things are perfectly clear: 1. Teachers and staff are commied to providing the best educaon to your child. 2. The students are hard workers. This tells me one thing – your children are in the right place to be highly successful individuals. Explicit Teaching is all about seng high standards for children and seng the environment for them to achieve these standards. We do this through a very clear model to ensure learning is scaffolded and to ensure there is a consistent approach across the school. At Bungaree we use the John Fleming Explicit Teaching Model. We use ‘warm-ups’ to move knowledge from our short term to long term memory as well as the ‘I do, We do, You do’ approach to succinctly structure lessons, giving students a step by step ap- proach when learning a new concept. I menoned John Fleming in the above paragraph. John is a highly regarded, research driven educaon consultant who runs professional learning and coaching to schools across Australia. John is very busy and difficult to get….We are very lucky to be able to employ his services every term. John was once asked in an interview, “What makes a good teacher”? His response was the following: “I think a good teacher knows what evidence-based research is telling them is good pracce; knows what that actually looks like in the classroom, and exactly what acvies they are doing in the classroom in terms of curriculum. They measure how the group as a whole are going, how individual students are going, and they have very clear goals set in their mind about what their high performing students should be achieving in reading, wring and maths. But, also, they know they have very clear goals for the kids who need extra support, they know how to deliver that extra support. Basically, they’re not teaching and hoping that the kids do well. They actually know that if they deliver the curriculum in this parcular way, that they will get good results and every kid will reach their potenal - whatever that is. Also, I think good teachers have a really outstanding relaonship with their kids, so they make learning fun. “ Connue on page 2 IMPORTANT DATES SkoolBag App See what is going on at Bungaree using SkoolBag. Alerts sent straight to your phone. Absentee form for quick noficaons. Instrucons available on the school website. Tue 17th May Assembly Rm 20 Mon-Fri 23rd-27th May Awesome Arts Wed 25th May MAGS K-2 Fri 27th May Walk to School Breaky Wear Red gold coin donaon for Red Shield Appeal Mon 7th June Western Australia Day
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TERM 2 WEEK 3 | 12th May 2016
Dear Families
As many of you would be aware, Janine is on long service leave un�l the end of this term and I am principal
while she is away. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first week at Bungaree and wish to thank the staff, students
and families for making me feel welcome. I’m not all that interes�ng so I won’t spend �me in this newsle%er
talking about me… rather, I’d like to talk about some of the great things I’ve already seen at Bungaree and
hopefully get you excited about the things that con�nue to happen as the school strives to offer your child
the best educa�on possible.
Walking around the school and spending �me in classrooms two things are perfectly clear:
1. Teachers and staff are commi%ed to providing the best educa�on to your child.
2. The students are hard workers.
This tells me one thing – your children are in the right place to be highly successful individuals.
Explicit Teaching is all about se/ng high standards for children and se/ng the environment for them to
achieve these standards. We do this through a very clear model to ensure learning is scaffolded and to
ensure there is a consistent approach across the school. At Bungaree we use the John Fleming Explicit
Teaching Model. We use ‘warm-ups’ to move knowledge from our short term to long term memory as well
as the ‘I do, We do, You do’ approach to succinctly structure lessons, giving students a step by step ap-
proach when learning a new concept.
I men�oned John Fleming in the above paragraph. John is a highly regarded, research driven educa�on
consultant who runs professional learning and coaching to schools across Australia. John is very busy and
difficult to get….We are very lucky to be able to employ his services every term. John was once asked in an
interview, “What makes a good teacher”? His response was the following:
“I think a good teacher knows what evidence-based research is telling them is good prac�ce; knows what
that actually looks like in the classroom, and exactly what ac�vi�es they are doing in the classroom in terms
of curriculum. They measure how the group as a whole are going, how individual students are going, and
they have very clear goals set in their mind about what their high performing students should be achieving
in reading, wri�ng and maths. But, also, they know they have very clear goals for the kids who need extra
support, they know how to deliver that extra support. Basically, they’re not teaching and hoping that the
kids do well. They actually know that if they deliver the curriculum in this par�cular way, that they will get
good results and every kid will reach their poten�al - whatever that is. Also, I think good teachers have a
really outstanding rela�onship with their kids, so they make learning fun. “
Con�nue on page 2
IMPORTANT DATES
SkoolBag App
See what is going on at
Bungaree using
SkoolBag.
Alerts sent straight to
your phone.
Absentee form for
quick no�fica�ons.
Instruc�ons available
on the school website.
Tue 17th May
Assembly Rm 20
Mon-Fri 23rd-27th May
Awesome Arts
Wed 25th May
MAGS K-2
Fri 27th May
Walk to School Breaky
Wear Red gold coin
dona�on for Red Shield
Appeal
Mon 7th June
Western Australia Day
A great big thank you to all of the Mums and Grandmothers who attended our Mother's Day Morning Tea in Rm 19 and 20 on Friday 6th May. It was wonderful to see the children having such a fabulous time with you in their school setting.
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As I walk around Bungaree classrooms this is exactly what I’m looking for and exactly what I see:
-Teachers doing what they do best – teaching!
-Teachers se/ng clear goals for each and every child.
-Teachers giving children individual support where needed.
-Curriculum being delivered in a deliberate and specific way.
-And, most importantly, teachers having outstanding rela�onships with their students - This, in my opinion is the number 1 priority for all
staff!
I think you should be delighted that your children a%end a school like Bungaree. From what I’ve seen in my first few days at this school,
this is a school determined to give all children in our care the best educa�on we possibly can.
I feel as though I’m really going to like it here…
Till next �me….. Daniel
IMMUNISATION
It is a requirement by the Education Department to receive all immunisation records
from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) print out. This can be obtained by
calling 1800653809.
If your child’s immunisations are not recorded on ACIR it may affect your family payments.
An immunisation provider will assist children not up–to-date or vaccinated overseas to receive
the correct scheduled vaccinations and have their records put on ACIR.
The nurses at the immunisation clinic at Kwinana Community Health 94192266 can also provide
this service.
Please ring and book an appointment.
Gabrielle Bauskis | Community Health Nurse |
South Zone | Child and Adolescent Community Health
