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In 2013 Boronia Primary school and Boronia Heights College will merge to form a new K-12 school on the current Boronia Priamary school site. In 2011 two staff from the Primary School (Chris Kors and Davina Ashworth)and two staff from the Secondary School (Sandy Johnstone and Rachel Gardiner) are investigating P-12 and K-12 schools around the state. We are looking at how the schools are structured and how they operate in the new style Open Learning Spaces. We have been given 50 days of Teacher Professional Leave (TPL) to help better understand the best way to work in this style of school environment. Our TPL enquiry question is; How can we as a group of new colleagues build a professional learning community which enables us to work collaboratively and develop shared norms for positive teaching strategies within a K-12 setting?

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Student Focus Group Years 5-8 Wednesday 27th July 2011

On Wednesday 27th July a group of year 5-8 students met in E-space at BHC to undertake the visioning activity that staff and parent groups had already participated in. The students also viewed the "flythrough" of our new buildings and photos of various furniture items that the TPL team had seen used in open learning spaces at other schools. The groups were led by Sandy Johnstone and Chris Kors. It was an extremely positive afternoon enjoyed by both students and staff, who are keen to be involved in more activities. Following is an overview of the students ideas.

INTERESTING QUOTES

"Tick of approval from Education Department for new K-12 school in Boronia which assures teacher,student and student safety at all facilities"

"Our logo is U K-12 because the school is for you."

"Friendly and inviting school."

MAIN AREAS OF COMMENT

*Subjects/Learning
*Buildings
*Uniform
*Rules/Safety
*Technology
*Care of the Environment

SOME IDEAS FROM THE STUDENTS' WORK

Completely different colour for our uniform because it is a new start.
The suggestion of hoodies was a recurring theme. Jeans and Summer/Winter uniforms were also mentioned.

VALUES
When asked to include values for our new school respect featured in almost all groups. Contributing, Participating and Motivation were also included by many groups as were sharing,caring,kindness, truth and honesty and love of reading.


All expressed a desire for the school to be safe for all students, staff and parents.

In general all were excited about the new facilities and hoped that learning would be fun.


They also had some interesting ideas for dividing the school into various groups. Two groups mentioned Kinder and prep together, yr1-4 and then yr5 and up. Another group mentioned the concept of a senior school but did not mention which year levels this was.

MAKING LEARNING REAL.
They expressed an interest in Cross Age Tutoring, Work experience and training programs and a student run cafeteria.
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