Teaching and Learning News
Welcome to Week 3 of Term 3. It has been wonderful to come together as a school lately for a couple of events after a long hiatus of not being able to gather. Pyjama Day was a lovely opportunity to get together to listen to a story. Then our first whole school assembly last week was a great occasion. Year 6M led the school beautifully and presented an introduction to our mantra Lourdes Learners are CALLed to Think as a Learner and as a Global Citizen. The acronym for CALLed to Think is Communicate, Act, Look, Listen and Think. Click here to watch the video of our Year 6s demonstrating each component of our mantra. They cleverly collaborated together in groups to create a skit for each area.
Over the next few newsletters, I will endeavor to give an explanation for each component of our new school mantra. This week will be a focus on Communicate- Lourdes learners communicate as a learner and as a global citizen.
Communicate as a Learner
Research states that it is most advantageous for learners to demonstrate attributes of self-regulation- being able to self-monitor, self-evaluate, self- assess and self- teach. Learners who can share what they are learning and why, talk about the strategies to help their learning, can articulate next learning steps and can ask questions about their learning are successful in school. These are the attributes of a learner who can communicate effectively. They know how to learn and take responsibility for their own learning. Consequently, we encourage our students to communicate as a learner.
Communicate as a Global Citizen
There is no doubt that we are living in a fast-changing technological world where text-based communication is prevalent, for example, text messages, emails, social media posts, etc. Due to the lack of vocal tone and context of these text-based communications, the message is often misconstrued. Readers of this type of communication need to think critically about the message trying to be delivered. It is vital students learn how to convey their thoughts and communicate effectively so others understand them.
Our students need to learn how to communicate in any given situation and to express ideas to diverse audiences. Students need to learn how to present information in multimodal ways with text, voice, symbols, illustrations, in both digital and non-digital formats; in ways that allow students to demonstrate skills in a broad variety of situations and to different audiences. We want our learners to speak confidently, deliver an argument with evidence and use the appropriate mode of communication to convey their ideas. Thus, we encourage our students to communicate as a global citizen.
Thanks for reading,
Miranda
Miranda Murray
Assistant Principal