‘Through self confidence and friendships we prepare ourselves to take on the challenges and obstacles of life’

PROJECT 9

Parent Information Night30th October 2013

Background and Rationale

Project 9 was developed in 2012 and introduced in 2013 to address long term data trend that indicated that Year 9 students attitudes to school were very poor.

The overarching aim of Project 9 is to improve: student engagement student connectedness to school community awareness and engagement student learning outcomes

Why was Project 9 introduced?

Our student data indicated that students attitudes are below state mean across most areas

** Student Morale and Student Distress are scored out of 7. Both results should be read in reverse

Classroom Behaviour

Connectedness to Peers

Student Safety

Learning Confidence

School Connectedness

Stimulating Learning

Student Motivation

Teacher Effectiveness

Teacher Empahy

Student Distress

Student Morale

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Year 9 Attitudes to School - 2012 vs 2013

2012

2013

Students Responses

Attitudes to school key areas

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Improvement

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Classroom Behaviour

Connectedness to Peers

Student Safety

Learning Confidence

School Connectedness

Stimulating Learning

Student Motivation

Teacher Effectiveness

Teacher Empathy

Student Distress

Student Morale

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Year 9 Attitudes to School - 2013 School vs State

WPSC

State

Students Responses

Attitudes to school key areas

Improve-ment

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** Student Morale and Student Distress are scored out of 7. Both results should be read in reverse

2012/13 Independent Survey Data…How have we progressed?

What impact has Project 9 had in 2013?

20% 94% either agree or strongly agree they feel connected to their teachers

34% 96% either agree or strongly agree that they enjoy coming to school this year

25% 90% either agree or strongly agree that they feel motivated to learn when in class

8% 69% either agree or strongly agree that students in their class takelearning seriously

2012/13 Independent Survey dataHow have we progressed?

What impact did Project 9 have on the positives?

73% 100% either agree or strongly agree that they feel connected to their peers

87% 98% either agree or strongly agree that they like having the choices in the elective program

69% 98% either agree or strongly agree that they are responsible for their own learning

PROJECT 9Curriculum Overview

Mentors

Matt Bodley – Chaplain/Maths

Clair Spencer – Science/Maths

Craig Belkin – English/Humanities

Kara Dunstan – Science/Maths

John Heffernan – PE/English

Chris Quinn – PE/Science

Structure

Project 9 will run every Friday each week

Focus on 21st Century skills with real life applications

Curriculum content flows out into other subjects so attendance is crucial

Weekly agenda’s will be posted on the Year 9 office window by Wednesday each week

3 Way Partnership

Student

Mentor Parent/

Guardian

This partnership is crucial to the success for each student.

3 Meetings- Roll over 2013- Mid 2014 - End of 2014

iPads

1 to 1 iPad allocation - school use only

Acceptable user agreement Must be signed by parent/guardian

Used as an engagement device to support learning

Also used in core subjects throughout the week

Utilised applications include Keynote, iMovie, Pages, Skitch, Numbers and Camera

Visual Diary (A3 size)

Must have 1 for start of roll over (booklist)

Main form or work representation

Encourages creativity

Presentation of work in creative forms

See examples of work

Excursions Experiential Learning - ‘Real life’ application

Crucial to related term work

Majority are fully funded through grant support from R.E ROSS TRUST.

Indemnity forms – return ASAP to Year 9 office

Mentor teachers – contact if issues

Year OverviewTerm by Term – as shown in handout

Project 9 - Year Overview

Term 1 - LIFESTYLE

Term 2 - ENVIRONMENT

Term 3 - PLACE

Term 4 - CULTURE

Year Outline – Term 1

Lifestyle Focus on Physical, Social and Emotional Wellbeing REACH program – Workshop Team building and Core Values identification Body systems assignment (links to ENG and SCI) Community support agency - visits and promotion of

services Community excursions – various lifestyle venues Laryngectomy association – Guest speakers

Year Outline - Term 2

Environment Tree Surfing – High ropes course in the trees Warringinee Park - exploring local conservation park Western Port Bay – Jacks Beach Mangroves Heide Gallery –Environment links (Fiona Hall 2013) Point Nepean – Culture and Environment research Point Nepean excursion – Indigenous links Cape Shank ecosystems - data collection excursion Baluk Arts – Indigenous Art workshops

Year Outline – Term 3

Place Feasibility study – Inquiry task into making our

community a better place Bounce excursion – practical example for feasibility

study ‘The Block’ – volunteering to make a positive

improvement to our school Tall Ship Enterprise – Explore the settlement of

Melbourne Big Day Out – Careers exposure excursions

Year Outline – Term 4

Culture City experience – City exposure and mapping task Aunty Caroline Briggs – Guest speaker Cultural diversity – Workshop task Migration to Australia – Guest Speaker South Eastern Drug and Alcohol – Guest Speaker Cultural Food day Film focus – Cultural acceptance and Resilience

PROJECT 9Promotional video