Playground- Houston, we have lift off!

How exciting to have the truck, digger, auger and concrete trucks roll in. We are on our way.
The playground has been in the dream stage for 4 years and now we are started.
Thanks especially to Huntley and his crew for the gear and the manpower.
We have had big dollar donations from a couple of Rotary chapters who are helping us to make the dream come true.

 

the lads discuss the options

 

 

Huntley the man in charge wishing the rain away.

 

 

Duane sharing a joke and by golly getting his hands dirty, gloves and all.

 

Bill and Huntley making sure that post is straight

 

"A bit to the left, Mate."

 

the first concrete down the chute.

 

 

Proud as! All going to plan.

 

The director with hands on hips, overseeing the technical process. You go guy.

Moderation of student achievement data with Aidenfield Christian School.

We met with the lovely teaching staff of Aidenfield Christian School one afternoon after school.  The purpose was to compare how we assessed student achievement in written language. Both schools use e-asTTLe as an assessment tool and we were interested to know if we were comparing and deciding by the same criteria.
We were! It's always valuable to meet with other professionals to talk about best practice in teaching and learning. What a lovely group of professionals they are. The children in the south west are well served by expert teachers who care deeply about the children in their care.

Robotics Science Focus Term 4

Science is alive and well at WSS. Our whole school focus this term was on robotics and it was immensely popular with boys and girls from the five year olds to our senior students. I heard lots of laughing as the robots, programmed by the children took off across the floor or went around in circles much to the children's delight. We don't need a laboratory to learn exciting and relevant science. Mind you I wouldn't say no if one were on offer.

Teacher Planning Day for 2014

Nicky and Adam

Lucy Denne appointed for a year's fixed term teaching position at WSS.

Shirley Haynes and Rochelle Everest

Jude Lange has been appointed as permanent job share along with Rochelle Everest. They are an exceptional combination.

Nicky Ifield and Adam Gardiner-new teachers for 2014. Adam has been appointed to a permanent position.

Jared Fretwell and Angeline Malae-both appointed as permanent teachers at WSS.

Rather than close the school we put guest teachers in the school for a day so that we could plan together as a teaching team on 14 November. Believe it or not we were planning ahead for 2014. We will miss Donna. She goes with our love and blessings. We are looking forward to creating new memories and new leadership at our school over the next few years.

Angeline Malae's Graduation

We were so proud to be able to attend Angie's graduation at the Aurora Centre. She was chosen to present the valedictory speech and made us very proud.
She has completed her two years of PRT supervision and guidance and is now fully registered as a teacher. The quality of the teachers employed at our school is very important and Angie has proven to be a treasure. Her biggest asset is that she is teachable. We ask our students to engage in new learning all day and every day so it is very important that our teachers model that same attitude. Congratulations Angie.