DATES TO REMEMBER

4th November – Halloween Evening Event 5PM/Progress Reports Go home

7th November – Holiday

11th November – Next Assembly

16th November – Parent Conferences 9-5 PM

26th November – International Day

Message re: Focus on Learning 2022-2023

After such a disrupted couple of years, this year is an important year to figure out exactly what our student’s needs are in every subject area and how we are going to address them next year and beyond.

We will do this with Focus on Learning Collaborations, which we introduced before Covid hit and also did in April last year. The idea is to identify our students’ Critical Learner Needs, which then become our Problems of Practice. This language comes from WASC and ties in with how we will review all curriculum areas this year.

A Problem of Practice isn’t a shortcoming on the part of us as teachers – it just recognizes the fact that we are the ones who cause learning, and meeting student learning needs is our problem to solve.

Below are links to Focus on Learning Collaboration documents which we will review on Monday, November 7 – once the reports cards are finished. We do it at this time as we have just reported on the needs of our students, and we also have MAP data that we can use to guide us.

For now, focus on finishing your Quarter 1 report cards. Once you have finished with them, take a moment to fill out the document to be reviewed at a later date. On the documents, you will also see what was recorded last year.

• ES PK Focus on Learning
• ES KG Focus on Learning
• ES Grade 1 Focus on Learning
• ES Grade 2 Focus on Learning
• ES Grade 3 Focus on Learning
• ES Grade 4 Focus on Learning
• ES Grade 5 Focus on Learning
• WS Health & Wellness (incl. Lifeskills) Focus on Learning
• WS Music Focus on Learning
• WS Technology (incl. Comp. Sci) Focus on Learning
• WS Visual Art (incl. Film & Photo) Focus on Learning
• WS World Languages Focus on Learning

TEACHER NOTICES

• You will get your conference schedule sent to you the day before parent conferences. Parents have until Monday the 14th, 3 PM, to sign up

• Progress Reports and conference sign-ups are live. 

• Please promote composting in your classrooms. 

• I will share the video on cashless payments; please review it with your classes before it starts on the 1st of November.

• We have field trip procedures. The first step is to discuss this with your Principal.

STUDENT NEWS

• There are games that can be borrowed at break times outside the office. Please make sure you read the guidelines for the game’s use before borrowing.

• The back playground can only be used during 1st break.

• The swing in the back playground should not have more than 2 students on it. Be careful when pushing and be safe, don’t go too high.

DUTIES BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL after the break

Monday – Ian/Saw John, Tuesday – Bekka, Mabel, Wednesday – Laura, Snow,  Thursday – Beth, Sandy, Friday – LuAnn, Htut Htut