Principal’s Notes
2 November
Dear Parents,
Today our middle school teachers and students arrive home from their Week Without Walls trips! I hope that your conversations with your child will reveal the value of this learning experience. Our WWoW trips provide students with the opportunity to learn about themselves and develop deeper relationships with peers and teachers. This year, our teachers have drawn particular attention to the Vision of a Learner attributes throughout the trip. After you hear about the fun details of your child’s experience, try asking them about how they or others demonstrated resilience, empathy, leadership, versatility, or what they learned about themselves after taking time to be reflective.
Below are the links to photos from the trips. The password is raptors18.
Wellbeing Survey Consent Form
From Nigel Holdsworth, School Psychologist
Our school is committed to understanding the needs of your child/ren and we are excited to inform you of a wellbeing initiative that we are planning for this year. We are engaging The University of Melbourne to measure the wellbeing of our students in grades 4-12, and we seek your support to allow your child/ren to participate in the survey that will be completed during advisory on Tuesday, 27 November. This will support our efforts to intentionally develop the wellbeing of our students.
Please indicate whether you consent for your child/ren to participate in the survey by responding YES or NO on the digital consent form, accessible here. An in-depth description of the survey is included in the consent form.
If you have more than one child at school, this digital consent form allows you to indicate consent for all of your children at once. The digital consent form requires you to draw a digital signature using a computer mouse or touchscreen. A hard copy form is available from section offices. For more information regarding the survey please get in contact with Nigel Holdsworth(School Psychologist).
Report Card Distribution Date
from Sherriden Masters & the Middle School Office
Over the last year, we have been reviewing the impact and effectiveness of our formal academic reports. As a result, we will be raising the profile and attention to these documents. The AISC academic report is the single most important document related to student growth, achievement, and success in our educational model. As such, it will now be printed, formatted, and delivered in a manner that represents more closely the effort that our students and teachers put into constructing them, and the value that we place in them.
The implications of this change in our delivery of reports are as follows;
- Reports will now be printed, and delivered to your students in hard copy
- They will be made available to you online, soon after the physical copy has been issued
- They will be available 24/7, fully formatted, to print or use at your convenience
- They will be accompanied by a separate, printed, student reflection document.
In order to accommodate the considerable quality and printing checks required to deliver a report in this way, that has not been carried out thus far, we will need to modify the reporting timeline for the Middle School. To that end, the report for Trimester One will be delivered to students, to take home, on Thursday 29 November, not Monday 26 November as stated on the community calendar.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused, but we hope that this change will produce a document that both you, and your students, will find enhancing to their education at AISC.
Parent Coffee Responses
Thank you to those of you who attended the parent coffee on our new reports, MAP scores and learning habits reflection. We collected many questions and we have responded to them here.
Should you have questions about your child’s trimester report when it is distributed on Thursday 29 November, please contact your child’s advisor. They can further direct you or connect you with the best person to answer your questions.
Our next coffee morning will be Tuesday 13 November.
Enjoy your Diwali Holiday! Classes resume on Wednesday 7 November.
Jessica Pechhold Andrew Ranson
Middle School Principal Middle School Associate Principal