Good Shepherd Lutheran School Para Vista officially opened South Australia’s first independent primary school Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) facility on Friday 2 March. Known as ‘The Ark’, this new centre for discovery and innovation was made possible by the South Australian Government’s investment in STEM. The facility also includes an outdoor classroom (‘The…
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On Monday, July 31 we were treated to a performance by the Endeavour College Year 9 band. They shared with us what they have been learning in music. The interaction and teaching with our students was a highlight. They encouraged students to learn music and shared their enthusiasm for playing and performing. We even learnt…
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Welcome back to Term 3. I trust you are all refreshed after a busy Term and had some valuable time with your families during the break. On Tuesday night July 25, Good Shepherd Lutheran School hosted a Connected Schools Combined Council meeting featuring staff and council members from Salisbury Lutheran Kindergarten, St Paul Lutheran Blair…
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I grew up on a grain farm in Victoria, and believe that my upbringing has grown in me a resilience and understanding about life. There are numerous studies which talk about the lack of contact with nature negatively affecting children’s health, well-being and academic performance. As a result, many opportunities that connect students with nature…
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While the government has an educational focus nationally on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), people may think about it as a political ‘hot potato’. At Connected Schools, we believe in the merit and authenticity of the STEM approach to learning. With the understanding that children learn best through making connections across many learning areas to their…
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Our Connected Schools are on a journey learning about and applying positive education in our own contexts. It has been a long journey for some of our schools, while others are at the early stages of this life changing work. Research over many years by people such as Dr Martin Seligman, Carol Dweck and Barbara Fredrickson…
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Assessment is a fundamental element of teaching pedagogy. It is part of the construction of understanding process including what we want the students to learn, how might they learn best and how we will know what they have learned. Teacher judgement is at the centre of assessment and reporting against achievement standards. Quality and consistency of…
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All schools value the physical and social development of students and are keen to offer their students opportunities to develop fitness, coordination and teamwork. Skipping is a highly valued activity at Good Shepherd, and historically has been strongly supported by parents who volunteer to coach the skipping team. Our skippers enjoy training together once a…
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P!nk is full of character; P!nk teaches, P!nk learns…P!nk is a humanoid robot. “The ‘magic’ of P!nk enthuses students to collaboratively create technical solutions aligned with numeracy, literacy and the new Digital Technology curriculum. More than anything….P!nk is fostering critical and creative thinking, collaborative problem solving and computational thinking – all essential skills and dispositions…
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