2018TRANSITION TO YEARS 7 AND 8

MISSION, VISION AND VALUES

SCHOOL VALUES

VALUES

Relationships: We communicate openly, honestly and respectfully allowing us to have meaningful connections with each other in the community and beyond. We foster a culture of optimism, collaboration and celebration.

Courage: We are courageous in our approach to managing change; embracing physical, moral and intellectual challenges; and standing up for what we believe. Courage enables us to understand our strengths and act accordingly.

VALUES

Creativity: We approach learning and teaching with creativity as our cornerstone. We are imaginative, inventive and entrepreneurial. We are open to and champion new ideas and new ways. Intellectual curiosity: We engage proactively with the world; determined to better understand, reflect upon and questions ourselves, our experiences and the society in which we live. We are critically engaged and curious about all that we encounter and learn.Engagement in life: We learn how to connect with others, manage the highs and lows and reap the rewards of our commitment by our purposeful engagement in all aspects of school life. We are motivated to participate and respond to changes in our world.

MISSION

We inspire Lauriston girls to be courageous lifelong learners and to deepen their outlook as ethical and compassionate young women seeking to resolve new-world problems while working collaboratively as responsible, global citizens to shape their world.

CHILD SAFE STANDARDS

MEETING THE CHILD SAFE STANDARDS

• Strategies to embed organisational culture of child safety• A child safety policy or a statement of commitment to child

safety• A child safety code of conduct• Screening, supervision, training and other human

resources practices that reduce the risk of child abuse• Procedures for responding to and reporting suspected

child abuse• Strategies to identify and reduce or remove risks of child

abuse• Strategies to promote child participation and empowerment

BUILDING RESILIENCE

ability or know-how to handle situations effectivelyCOMPETENCE

belief in one’s own abilities CONFIDENCE

close ties to family, friends, school and communityCONNECTION

fundamental sense of right and wrongCHARACTER

importance of personal contribution leading to a sense of purpose

CONTRIBUTION

coping with stressCOPING

controlling the outcomes of decisions and actionsCONTROL

DEFINING SUCCESS

Authentic success: to be happy, generous and compassionate.

We can be successful and contribute to the world in many and different ways. Our challenge is to recognise the talents of every child and create circumstances in which they have the support and resources necessary to reach their potential.

The most concerning thing about this generation of driven students may be fear of imperfection that is being instilled in their psyches. This fear can stifle creativity, impede their innovative potential and diminish their ability to flourish.

HEALTHY, HIGH ACHIEVERS

We want children to be healthy, high achievers who reach their potential.

For healthy, high achievers the process is important.

Healthy, high achievers:• gain genuine pleasure from putting every effort

put into the process• see mistakes as an opportunity for growth and

failure as a temporary setback from which they will rebound

• remain open to looking outside the box for solutions or strategies not yet tried.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT

PARENT GROUPS

Lauriston Parents AssociationExecutive, Senior School, Junior School

• Parent representatives organise coffee mornings, cocktail parties, Howqua activities, Year 6 activities

• Key Events: New Parent Cocktail Party, Huntingtower Lunch, Mothers Day Breakfast, Fathers Day Breakfast, School Fair

• LPA Innovation FundLauriston Arts AssociationSub-committee of LPA

• Key Events: Lauriston Arts Festival, Chamber Music Lunch, School Musical activities

• Scholar in Residence

PARENT GROUPS

Fathers of LauristonSub-committee of LPA

• Key Events: Fathers of Lauriston Dinner, monthly get togethers, support at New Parents Cocktail Party

New and International Parents GroupSub-committee of LPA

• Key Events: Chinese New Year Celebration, parent activities such as cooking classes and coffee mornings.

Lauriston Rowing AssociationLauriston SnowSports AssociationLauriston Netball Club

PROPOSED STRATEGIC FACILITIES FRAMEWORK

SPORTS AND WELLBEING CENTRE

Vice Principal –Learning and InnovationMr Tim Watson

Future focused teaching and learning

SIGNATURE PROJECTS

• Develop and inspire in students a passion for lifelong learning.

• Encourage responsibility, ethical understanding, and global awareness.

• Encourage independence, resilience and ‘failing well’. Promote a ’growth mindset’.

• Promote and develop critical, reflective and creative thinking.

• Integrate the use of digital tools and resources in a meaningful way that allows students to modify and redefine their learning experiences.

• Be truly interdisciplinary in nature and allow students to develop an ability to transfer learning across domains.

• Implement the general capabilities strands of the Australian Curriculum in a more explicit fashion.

• Ensure compliance with the technology strands of the Australian Curriculum without jeopardizing current curriculum allocations.

HOW?

•Focus on Approaches to Learning

•Establishment of Academic Advisor model where students reflect on their learning and set future goals.

•A curriculum that focuses on the development of skills, dispositions and values that will ensure students are constantly learning to learn and critically engaged in the world.

Assessment and grading

GROWTH NOT GRADES

• ‘The approaches we take to assessing learning, the kinds of tasks we assign and the way we report success or failure at school send powerful messages to students not only abouttheir own learning, but also about the nature of learning itself’ (Geoff Masters)

• ’A year’s growth for a year’s schooling’ (John Hattie)

• Academic Tenacity (Dweck)

GROWTH MINDSET

HOW WILL THE REPORTING AND GRADING CHANGE?• Greater focus on feedback and ‘feedforward’ shared directly with

parents.

• Criterion referenced rubric based.

• Reduction in the number of key skills measured in each subject –shift from measurement of single task performance, to development and acquisition of skills over the year.

• Broader assessment scale to provide greater detail regarding.

• Shared student reflection on learning and clear establishment of ‘next steps’ shared directly with parents.

• Ability to measure ’growth’ over time so we can ensure every student is reaching their full potential.

NEXT STEPS

• A more detailed outline of the proposed changes and trial will be included in a newsletter in Week 4.

• Parent fora on the changes in Weeks 5 and 6.

• Evaluation and reflection on changes at the end of Semester 1.

• First revised grades for online reporting will be available after Week 8 of Term 1.

Home learning and late submission

YEAR 7 YEAR 8• 12 to 18 minutes per period for home

learning• 18 to 24 minutes per period for home

learning

• No substantive home learning tasks before week 4 – some small LOTE and Mathematics tasks, some reading for English.

• Home learning tasks commence from the beginning of the year.

• All home learning tasks should be recorded in study diaries.• Home learning tasks may include:

• Revision for tests• Reviewing work completed in class• Small tasks or set exercises• Reading ahead and preparation for the next lesson• Learning of vocabulary and so on.

LGS HOME LEARNING POLICY

LGS LATE SUBMISSION POLICY

• It is crucial that work is submitted punctually.

• Late work will still be marked by classroom teachers, however a grade will not be given. Instead, the work will receive an ‘satisfactory but ungraded’. Teachers will still provide feedback and feedforward to students.

• Repeated late submission will be recorded and contact made with home to develop a way to ensure that future work is handed in on time.

• Students are requested to make contact with their teachers well in advance and negotiate an extension to a due date if required. We are keen to work with individual students to ensure that they are able to complete all tasks to the best of their abilities.

Vice Principal –Head of Senior SchoolMs Di Wood

ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES

COMMUNICATIONS

•DAILY ABSENCES Please email student servicesseniorschool@lauriston.vic.edu.au•EXTENDED ABSENCES Please apply in writing to the principal•NEWSLETTERThe Newsletter is used to report on events in the Senior School and relay information as to dates and events.

PARENT/STUDENT/ TEACHER INTERVIEWS

•YEAR 7 20 MARCH 2:00-8:30PM•YEAR 8 15 MAY 2:00-8:30PM

•5 MINUTE APPOINTMENTS ARE BOOKED ONLINE THROUGH PARENT TEACHER ONLINE(PTO).

•AN EMAIL WILL BE SENT TWO WEEKS AHEAD WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE PTO

CAMPS

• Year 7 Camp Week 3

• Year 8 camp Week 4 8SK and 8KAWeek 5 8KL and 8ST

OPPORTUNITIES

• EXTENSIVE MUSIC AND SPORT PROGRAM

• CLUBS: GREENIES; AMNESTY; GIRL UPINTERNATIONAL • DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING• COMMUNITY SERVICE• LEADERSHIP: FORM CAPT/SRC• DRAMA YEAR 5-8 SCHOOL PLAY TERM 3MIDDLE SCHOOL HOUSE TERM 4

MUSIC AT LAURISTON

Music at Lauriston

Open Ensembles•Lauriston Voices: Wednesday 3:30pm-4:30pm•Concert Band: Thursday 7:30am-8:15am•5-8 String Orchestra: Friday 7:30am-8:15am•5-8 Flute Ensemble: Friday 7:30am-8:15am•5-8 Sax Ensemble: Friday 7:35am-8:15am

Music at Lauriston

Auditioned Ensembles• Laurietta (auditioned 6-8 choir): Tuesday 7.30am-8.15am• Chamber ensembles (auditions next week)

Instrumentalists Grade 5 AMEB and above can audition next week for Senior Orchestra (Tuesday 4.00pm-5.30pm) and Symphonic Band (Friday 7.30am-8.15am).

LAURISTON SPORT

GSV WEEKLY SPORTTERM 1 Indoor Cricket

SoftballTennis

TERM 2 HockeyNetballAFL 9’s

TERM 3 SoccerVolleyball

TERM 4 BasketballCricketWater Polo

*TRAININGS – Monday morning 6.50am-8.00am

*MATCHES – Thursday afternoons 3.00-6.00pm

GSV CARNIVAL SPORTTERM 1 Swimming & Diving

TERM 2 Cross Country

TERM 3 Track & Field

RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

AEROBICS Friday – 7.15-8.00am@ LGS (Dance Studio)

PERSONAL TRAINING

Tuesday – 3.20-4.20pm@ LGS (Gym)

RUNNING CLUB Tuesday & Friday 6.45am-8am @ Kooyong Park

REC SWIMMING Thursday – 6.30am-8.00am@ LGS (Pool)

YOGA Thursday – 3.20pm-4.20pm@ LGS (Dance Studio)

CO-CURRICULARROWING Begins in Year 8 (Term 3)

SNOWSPORTS Term 2 & 3

NETBALL All Year

More information about locations and fixtures can be found on the Lauriston Team App

HOUSE

• FOUR HOUSES

• RUN BY HOUSE COORDINATORS AND HOUSE CAPTAINS

• FOCUS ON HOUSE SPIRIT AND PARTICIPATION

• SAVE THE DATE

HOUSE PICNIC TUESDAY 13TH MARCH

ANDREWS HOUSE

Penny BrownHouse Coordinator

Nikita DelkousisHouse Captain

Anastasia TamaresisHouse Captain

IRVING HOUSE

Victoria SnellHouse Coordinator

Rebecca LiuHouse Captain

Angela LiuHouse Captain

KIRKHOPE HOUSE

William WhiteHouse Coordinator

Xanthe MurrellHouse Captain

Madeline SchillerHouse Captain

MITCHELL HOUSE

Jodie MitchellHouse Coordinator

Lili ReadHouse Captain

Sophie MelvilleHouse Captain

YEAR 7

Mandi VarmalisYear 7 Coordinator

Emily Spanos7SP Tutor

Trevor Smith7S Tutor

Saradha Koirala7K Tutor

Andrea Macrae7M Tutor

YEAR 8

Kate GilchristYear 8 Coordinator

Teresa Swiercynski8ST Tutor

Kelly Smith8SK Tutor

Lisa Khan8KL Tutor

Anna Kidd8KA Tutor

ACTIVE-8• ACTIVE

• AdVEnTurous

• AwEsomE

ACTIVE-8 CAmP• Each tutor group has their own camp for 1 week in Term 1, 2018.

• Major activities: Snorkelling, Sea Kayaking and bike riding• Challenge activities, bush cooking, tree climbing, SUPing• Night activities: team building games and banner design.

• Purpose: • To help form a strong tutor group• To get to know other girls in the

tutor group and your tutor• To learn about marine life• To improve knowledge of Indigenous culture• To learn new skills• To increase water confidence

ACTIVE-8 sIGn uP AdVEnTurEs 2018• In addition to the Active-8 camp activities, there are several other activities students can join.

•Surfing•Kayaking•Mountain Biking•Skiing (weekend)•Camping (weekend)•Horse Riding (weekend)

►Each activity has a maximum number of participants. The number varies depending on the activity.►Students are required to return the permission slip by the due date, although this does not guarantee them a place.

•Each activity has an extra cost to cover transport, accommodation, supervision, equipment etc…

•The dates of each activity are in the students diaries, with the first voluntary activity being Surfing on 18th March (Sunday)

DATES

•Active 8 Surfing Day – Sunday 19th March•Active 8 Camp Skills – 5-6th May•Active 8 Mountain Biking Day – 25th June•Active 8 Ski Weekend – 10th – 12th August•Active 8 Horse Riding Weekend – 19th – 21st

October•Active 8 Orienteering Day – TBA•Active 8 Camp Skills weekend – 10th -11th

November

ACTIVE8

•GET InVoLVEd!!!!

2018 Year 7&8 Parent Information Night (Tutor)

SUBJECT VARIETY

•12 Subjects across the year

• Students also engage in the SHINEprogram

• (Strength, Health, Inspiring, Nurturing, Engagement)

DAY-TO-DAY INFORMATION

• Planner – please check regularly

• Roll call at 8.20

• Calling in when sick/appointments (email Student Services)

• seniorschool@Lauriston.vic.edu.au

• First point of contact student services iedropping in forgotten uniform/ lunch

• When unwell students go to the health centre.

• All extended leave is to first go through our Principal in the form of a written / email request.

DAY-TO-DAY INFORMATION

•Communication - first point of contact is the tutor and then the Year Level Coordinator (Ms MandiVarmalis/Ms Gilchrist)

• There are many House activities such as sport, music, drama and more.

HOME LEARNING

• No home learning will be given in the first 3 weeks(Year 7)

• Differs from child to child. Class teacher is first point of contact for specific subject queries.

• 15-18 minutes per subject (Year 7)• 18-24 minutes per subject (Year 8)

• Routine, organisation, visible timetable, clean work station, little/no distractions all form a good routine.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• GSV – Girls Sport Victoria• Public speaking• Poetry Recitation• Debating• Music• Maths competitions• Amnesty, Greenies, Girl Up and

International groups• After-school arts (photography,

sewing and textiles, jewellery)

REMINDERS

• House swimming carnival this Friday 9th Feb (online excursion permission form)

• Co-curricular timetable: see handbook for details. (Don’t overdo it!)

Parent/teacher interviews Date - 20th March (Year 7) and 15 May (Year 8).

• NAPLAN (Year 7)Term 2

REMINDERS

• 7/8 centre handbook and co-curricular document answers many queries. These are available on the school website under “quick links”.

• The School website and parent newsletter provide more information.

• School photos Feb 8th – ID cards created after this.

• Mobile phone policy –no use of phones during school hours. Please make contact with the school (Student Services) rather than contact child directly.