Photo: Principal John Young presents students their new Macbook Pros
It's that time of year again when Clarkson Community High School rewards high achieving students with an upgrade to a Macbook Pro in our MATE Program.
MATE stands for Make A Total Effort, and the students who win this award are the top achieving students in their year groups from the semester one reporting period.
Well done to George, Catherine, Alexia, Hadiqa, Montana, Jake, Chanel, Marisa, Jacob, Lorissa, Florence, Saiphan, Kirby and Nathalie!
2014 is the biggest year on record for technology investment at Clarkson Community High School.
As you may have read previously in The Bulletin, Clarkson sees itself as a technology-focused school when it comes to teaching and learning. More and more teachers are using our Moodle online course delivery system so that students can access and submit work from anywhere and at any time and more and more students are benefiting from learning advanced technology skills than ever before.
It is also the first year ever that every student and every teacher has been loaned a Macbook laptop computer for their studies and work. This means that everyone has access to super-fast broadband from anywhere in the school and have a powerful tool at their fingertips to assist them with their learning.
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Mrs Cunningham has to be congratulated on being the first teacher to incorporate 3D printing into her curriculum. Last week her Year 9 Food students designed their own cookie cutters on www.cookiecaster.com, then downloaded the 3D file and printed them out. This week they have used their cutters to make cookies in class. Well done to Mrs Cunningham for being brave enough to try something different, and the kids loved it!
Mrs Cunnigham demonstrating the software
A large part of the ethos at Clarkson Community High School is Invitational Education (William Purkey). The five P's of Invitational Education stand for people, places, policies, programs and processes and these provide the means to address the global nature of the school in terms of inviting students to learn and creating a safe learning environment.
The MATE program (Make A Total Effort) is an initiative that fits perfectly in our invitational ethos. It rewards high achievement by setting goals towards grade point average and good standing (behaviour).
Parents, students and teachers can now order their meals up to two weeks in advance through our new online ordering system. This system is great news for kids who often lose their lunch money or for parents who want to control what their kids are eating.
Full instructions are available on the site. All you have to do is sign up for an account, log in, add your child, choose your school, choose your meals and pay with a credit card. Your child's meal will then be waiting for them at recess and lunch.
For more information please click on this link or the CANTEEN ORDERS button in the top menu.
Please note: the school fees and uniform purchasing features are not active.
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