GRADE 7 REPORT:
Coming Up.....
The Grade 7 team are working hard behind the scenes to bring Grade 7 students a ‘retreat’ experience during Term 3. We are aware that our Grade 7’s were disappointed about the cancellation of their camp at Camp Clayton due to the Tasmanian Government not allowing schools to go on major excursions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Camp provides students with an invaluable experience where they challenge themselves to be courageous, make new connections with students across the grade, and build trust and friendships.
Our retreat experience for Grade 7 students will occur during the first few weeks of Term 3 and is planned so that it will emulate experiences that students would have had on Grade 7 camp. Students will be placed in groups that are mixed across the Grade so that they can connect with others they may not have met before. We understand that many students have expressed recently that they feel less connected to school and their peers. The retreat experiences will allow students the time and place to make those connections and grow as a person.
Our retreat experience aims to promote and develop
- Building and developing trust
- Strengthening relationships
- Make new connections across the grade
- Socialisation skills
- Team building
- Resilience
- Courage
- Respect
- Collaboration
- Personal Growth
Watch this space for information about the Grade 7 retreat coming up in the new few weeks. We are excited to be able to support our Grade 7 students' development in this way and hope that they enjoy the experience.
Celebrations
Lead by Mr Murray, our Grade 7 Leaders were finally able to have their first face-to-face meeting this week. It was fantastic to see them working together to give some feedback on new furniture for the Grade 7 common room space and them preparing for our end of term assembly. During our online learning Mr Murray engaged with the leaders via email providing them with tasks about leaderships to complete in order to gain a more holistic view of who leaders are and how leaders have impacted our world. It has been an unconventional start for our class leaders, but we have been so impressed with their resilience and commitment by being role models in behaviour and uniform to other students.
Grade Focus
Our Grade focus for the remainder of the term is students following our ROCKS Expectations consistently both in class and in the yard. We understand that students have spent much time away from our school environment and need time to adjust back to the expectations of school life. By remembering and practising our ROCKS every day and using them as a guide for their behaviour will enable them to get the most out of their learning environment.
R - Respect for themselves, others and then environment
O - Organisation
C - Commitment to learning
K - Keeping Safe
S - Sensible Behaviour
We would like to encourage our parents and carers to discuss the ROCKS with our Grade 7s on a regular basis to reinforce messages and behaviour guidelines that they are receiving at school.
Grade 7 Gratitude Project
‘Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart’
Secondly, our Grade 7 students started a Gratitude Project this week and have created a wall of gratitude in each of our class teacher rooms. Each day for the remainder of the term when they arrive in class teacher, students will be given a sticky note to write down something that they are grateful for and stick it on their class gratitude wall. At the end of each week they will review the classes' contributions. It is scientifically proven that grateful people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity and build strong relationships. People feel and express gratitude in multiple ways (Harvard University). This is a way for our Grade 7 students to start each day in a positive way.
Grade Assemblies
On Monday we held our weekly grade assembly; below is a summary of the important items presented to our Grade 7 students:
- Uniform reminder - Winter uniform (beanies and puffer jackets are not to be worn at school)
- Grade 7 Retreat
- Gratitude Wall
- ROCKS Expectations - Review
- Transition Leader Application Reminder (due on Friday 26th June)
- F1 in Schools (Mr Richardson)
EOI Transiton Leader - Leadership Position Application
Below is the position description for our Grade 7 2020 Transition Leaders. This is a highly regarded leadership role in our school and we would like to encourage all our Grade 7 students to apply for this position to further develop and showcase their leadership skills.