Parent Information Night

30 th October 2013

 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

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

Year 9 Attitudes to School - 2012 vs 2013

** Student Morale ** Student Distress Teacher Empahy Teacher Effectiveness Student Motivation Stimulating Learning School Connectedness Learning Confidence Student Safety Connectedness to Peers Classroom Behaviour

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Students Responses

5,00 Improvement 6,00 2012 2013

Year 9 Attitudes to School - 2013 School vs State

** Student Morale ** Student Distress Teacher Empathy Teacher Effectiveness Student Motivation Stimulating Learning School Connectedness Learning Confidence Student Safety Connectedness to Peers Classroom Behaviour

0,00 1,00 2,00 3,00 4,00 Students Responses 5,00 6,00 Improvement WPSC State

What impact has Project 9 had in 2013?

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20% 94%

either agree or strongly agree they feel connected to their teachers 

34%

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

96%

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25%

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

90%

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8% 69%

either agree or strongly agree that students in their class take learning seriously

What impact did Project 9 have on the positives?

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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

Curriculum Overview

 Matt Bodley – Chaplain/Maths  Clair Spencer – Science/Maths  Craig Belkin – English/Humanities  Kara Dunstan – Science/Maths  John Heffernan – PE/English  Chris Quinn – PE/Science

 Project 9 will run every Friday each week  Focus on 21 st applications Century skills with real life  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

This partnership is crucial to the success for each student.

Student

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

Parent/ Guardian Mentor

 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

 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

 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

Term by Term – as shown in handout

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Term 1 - LIFESTYLE

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Term 2 - ENVIRONMENT

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Term 3 - PLACE

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Term 4 - CULTURE

 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

 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

 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

 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

Promotional video