Celebrations

Back to school is in full swing as we finish another week back at Kings Meadows High School. A lot has been happening within our classes this week. Our teachers have hit the ground running ensuring that students have been given the opportunity for catch up in core areas. Students have worked diligently to complete important tasks and we are making good progress to get all students back on track.

With two weeks of learning left in Term 2 the following current topics are being studied in our core classes:

HPE is focussing on World Games and Food and Nutrition, English is undertaking persuasive writing, HaSS is studying Slavery, Mathematics is delving in to a Measurement unit and Science is undertaking Chemistry. We are very much looking forward to seeing what work our students can produce in these units of work.

Our adapted Cross Country carnival will be held Wednesday 24^th June and we are looking forward to seeing how our grade fares in their fitness after being at home for some time.

Terms 3 and 4 are going to be very important for our Grade 9 students. It is during these terms that we place an emphasis on the leadership skills of all of our students. Our My Education sessions will be focussed around developing leadership and workplace leadership. During the last week of Term 2 we will be giving students a take home information sheet outlining our formal leadership process. It is during this process that we will be developing and selecting our Prefects, Beacon Ambassadors, Peer Support Leaders and House Captains for 2021. This is a lengthy process with many steps involved to ensure that we gain the best possible leaders for our grade for 2021.

This process is a very exciting one, but also a time of extra pressure and stress on our students. We have acknowledged this and will do our utmost to ensure all students are supported fully during this process. Mr Hartley and Mrs Elliott, along with our Grade 9 Class Teachers will be discussing at length with the students about this process, guiding students in their choices and nominations and keeping the process as clear and as stress free as possible. Our information newsletter will have details about timeframes, processes and election dates. We wish all of our Grade 9’s the best of luck in this process and ask that they consider carefully the decision to run for student leader in 2021.

Grade Focus

Our focus for Grade 9 this week will be to reconnect with our school environment. Re-establishing relationships, catching up with class mates and teachers, re-setting schedules, following school procedures and generally transitioning into face to face learning. This process will be ongoing for the remainder of Term 2 as we set about our new “normal” at Kings Meadows High School. We will be continuing to apply good learning behaviours and academic rigour, ensuring that deadlines are being met and that we have caught up on anything that may have been missed whilst learning from home. In addition the Leadership process will begin for all students.