Welcome to Clarkson Community High School

Year 7 BBQ 2019

We are holding a Year 7 Parent/Teacher BBQ on Tuesday 12th March at the school between 3.30pm and 6.00pm.

The school will provide a sausage sizzle and drink for parents, students and staff.

The aims of the evening are to:

- Allow parents to meet some of their children’s teachers.
- Introduce parents to some key staff members at the school.
- Take parents on a tour of the school.
- Provide parents with information on school processes, procedures and policies.

Hope to see you there!

Breakfast Club Reminder

Just a reminder to all students that Breakfast Club is on EVERY day in the Home Ec room over in the Technology Block.

Grab yourself cereal and toast Monday to Thursday and the big cook-up is on Fridays. Bacon...what a great start to the day!

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.

https://wordflyers.com.au/

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).

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