Important Dates To Remember For 2019
OLNA 2019 Round 1:
Writing: 5-7th March 2019
Numeracy and Reading: 5th-29th March 2019
CCHS Student free days:
Term 1 - Friday, 5 April 2019 (Year 12 Ball 7pm -11pm)
Term 2 - Monday, 29 April 2019
Term 3 - Monday, 22 July 2019
Last day of school for students in Year 7-10 will be Thursday, 19 December 2019.
Thank you.
OLNA Starts Next Week!
The Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment(OLNA) commences next week in all WA secondary schools. The assessment is designed to enable students to successfully meet the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) requirement of demonstrating the minimum standard of literacy and numeracy.
The Clarkson CHS Literacy Support website below provides our Year 10 students with access to mock OLNA tests and examples of effective writing. Practise lots this weekend!
https://sites.google.com/view/lscchs/olna
New School Phone Number
Please note the new main switchboard telephone number for the school has changed.
Please use 08 6206 5000 from today.
Wordflyers at Clarkson: Supporting Our Low Literacy Learners
In Week 4, our Year 7- 9 low literacy learners commence the WordFlyers programme to support their literacy development and their performance in May’s NAPLAN examination.
WordFlyers is a comprehensive online literacy program which brings students’ literacy skills up to standard in grammar, reading, comprehension, punctuation, vocabulary and writing.
The differentiated activities allow students to work at their ability, with a review level designed to bring struggling students up to standard.
Education Today Article - The Dialogic Approach
Joanne Davies was Second in Charge of Learning Area of English and HaSS, intermittently Acting Head of Department at Clarkson Community High School in 2018. She started her journey at Clarkson as a student in 2002 and graduated in 2007. She wrote this article for Education Today magazine, which was published February 2019.
Hattie is renowned for his philosophy on ‘Visible Teaching and Learning’. He states that ‘accomplishing the maximum impact on student learning depends on teams of teachers working together, with excellent leaders or coaches, agreeing on worth-while outcomes, setting high expectations, knowing the students’ starting and desired success in learning, seeking evidence continually about their impact on all students, modifying their teaching in light of this evaluation, and joining in the success of truly making a difference to student out-comes.’ (Hattie, 2012). The Visible Teaching and Learning theory is grounded upon an analysis of hundreds of meta-analyses determining the effect size of numerous influences on student achievement.
Hattie, in collaboration with Klauz Zierer, defined and articulated 10 approaches to thinking that educators can adopt to maximise student outcomes (Hattie & Zierer, 2018).
John Young, Principal of Clarkson Community High School, has seen the difference visible learning makes. At Clarkson the faculty and staff are continuously propounding the question, how can we accelerate student learning? Our response to this query… an amalgamation of our research, shared beliefs, teaching and learning pedagogies and the use of data to inform instruction at a whole-school level, and at a classroom level. Young explains that “it is our belief that implementing Invitational Learning theory throughout every facet of our school has provided us with the best framework for success in re-culturing, re-structuring and re-timing of Clarkson Community High School” (2016).
To read the rest of this article please click here.
Clarkson Breakfast Club Is Back!
All students are welcome to attend in the Home Ec room every Friday from 8am.
Set yourselves up for the day with a full breakfast including sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms, tomato, beans, toast and fruit juices.
Huge thanks to Wendy Hillier, Vanessa Taylor and Jo Mills for putting on an awesome spread today!
Meet Our 2019 Applied Science & Mathematics Coordinator
Geraint Davies is an experienced school leader who has taught and led staff in country WA and metropolitan Perth schools since 2002.
SaverPlus Savings Program
Join a savings program that matches every dollar you save, up to $500
Saver Plus is a community organisation that supports parents to provide financially for their children. The program assists parents to save for education expenses by matching their savings dollar for dollar up to $500. Saver Plus is Australia's largest matched savings program. More than 36 000 people across Australia have participated in the program, saving over $18.5 million.
It was developed by Brotherhood of St Laurence and The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) in 2003 and is delivered, in Western Australia, by The Smith Family and Brotherhood of St Laurence.
The Department of Education of Western Australia promotes Saver Plus to families in participating areas and eligible families now have the opportunity to participate in this initiative.
What this means for you:
Saver Plus is a free, ten-month program that provides financial education, budgeting and savings tips, and matches your savings, up to $500, for education costs. Saver Plus can help you:
• build your skills around managing money;
• become a regular saver; and
• reach a savings goal.
Once you finish the program, ANZ will match your savings dollar-for-dollar, up to $500. You can use your matched savings for education-related costs such as computers, laptops and tablets, school uniforms, text books, sports fees and equipment, school excursions and more.
For more information please download the fact sheet here.
Last Day For Students
Dear parents and students. Please note the last day for students this year is Thursday 13 December. Have a great holiday!
