1. Year 6 Teaching Team Kylie Kiene Co-ordinator kkien1@eq.edu.au
Mr Dave Hooper
Ms Lisa Barry

2. Year 6 Teaching Team Ms Sharon Tippett stipp7@eq.edu.au
Ms Celina Armitage
Mrs Julie Lucas

3. MSC ADMINISTRATION TEAM
College Director Julie Kornmann
Head of Junior School Sue Esposito
Primary School Deputy Lisa Cutter ( 5/6 )
Head of Curriculum
Nicola Worthington (5/6)

4. Primary School Priorities
Reading P-6
Numeracy: Computational Fluency
Thinking and Problem Solving
Student Engagement

5. daily literacy blocks Literacy warmups Literacy Circles
Spelling activities
Reading & writing strategies
Shared/guided reading & writing activities
Targeted guided reading rotations
Speaking & listening activities

6. 1. Literacy – Balanced Reading Program
At Meridan State College, key strategies for building comprehension are used within and across grade levels. These strategies are designed to develop active readers through thinking and interactive activities.
These strategies include:
QAR - Question Answer Response
Comprehension strategies activities
Reading Detective
Reciprocal Reading
Literature Circles
SCORE

7. learning progressions
FINISH
GROWTH IN LEARNING!!!
START
Pre Test Data is collected in Week 1 + Post Test Data collected Week 8- 10

8. Strategic Direction 2018 Focus 2. Teaching and Learning
College Culture and Practice
2. Teaching and Learning
Strategic Direction
2018 Focus
Baseline assessment tasks determine where students enter the learning goal and then teachers and students track their progress towards or beyond TARGET throughout the term using monitoring and check in tasks.   
Regular FEEDBACK is provided to students to give information about: 
How I am going? FEEDBACK  
Where to next?    FEED FORWARD  
Key reading workshops, resources and guided and independent reading activities are created to help students to unpack key success criteria.  Differentiated strategies and targeted resources are devised to help meet the needs of students at different stages of the learning progression. Differentiation is delivered in guided reading lessons where students are grouped according to need and reading level.  

9. ONE OF OUR College priorities in 2019 Creative and Critical Thinking
Our focus is to teach our students thinking skills through the use of the thinking framework with a focus on the six cognitive verbs.

10. Numeracy Term 1 Numeracy – Computational thinking and Problem Solving
Number facts
- Fluency and accuracy
- Baseline data
-revisit each term
North Coast Region Diagnostic (NCR)
-baseline data
– beginning at each term
- influences math warm up to back fill gaps of knowledge

11. daily numeracy block Maths warm-ups Mental computation
Explicit teaching of focus concepts
Practise
Reflections
Numeracy
rotations

12. Add pic or title

13. HOMEWORK Consolidate key learning areas
Reading, Writing, Language Conventions & Numeracy
Purpose –To promote positive study habits and reinforce concepts learnt throughout the day
Platforms for Homework includes spelling, reading and math activities. Homework is to be completed in on One Note.
Online platforms
Manga High
Literacy Planet

14. Student Behaviour – Explicit Behaviour
3. Student Engagement Teachers – Ms F. Day and Mr S. Will
Student Behaviour – Explicit Behaviour
Week 1 Star Trek – revisit expectations in all area of the school community
Whole School Behaviour Lessons – weekly focus.
Circle Time – discussion time of class and school celebrations and concerns
Positive consequences – Star of the Week, Star pass, Postcard, Spectacular Behaviour Award. Class teacher may also implement individual positive consequences in their own classroom environment.

15. Responsible Behaviour Plan.
BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT
Responsible Behaviour
Plan.
Warning Verbal/Non verbal
Buddy Class/Rule Reminder
(Parents Contacted)
Reflection Room
Admin Involvement

17. Supporting Your Child’s Learning
Reading every night – keep it interesting
*read together
*encourage them to try different authors
*record themselves reading and listen back
2. Ask – “What homework to you have this week?”
3. Set up a routine/schedule of completing homework
Quiet work place
Times set aside for homework
4. Encourage independence in your child
5. Ensuring your child has all necessary equipment for the school day - **Fully Charged Laptop / Device

18. MERIDAN BYOX 1 student to 1 device usage (1:1)
Used within the college Year 4-12
Online platforms are being used each and every day (One Note, Literacy Planet and Manga high)
Assessment is being carried out online
School website is a hub for BYOX information

19. BYOX ON SCHOOL DEVICE Lease a School Device for $250 per year
BYOX and use school network $60 per year
Full IT support for troubleshooting

20. Excursions, Events and Camps Term 1
Digital Classrooms - 9am 22 March
Colour Run – Wed afternoon 27 March
Camp
Week 10 Wednesday – Friday
3 – 5 April
ADD PHOTO – maybe from 2018 camp

21. Parents and students will now gather in each classroom to discuss more specific classroom information.
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