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Year 7 2021 Information Evening Welcome to Westminster School Mrs Jane Edwards Head of Year 7
Welcome to Senior School
Year 7 in the Senior School – exciting times!
In alignment with Australian Curriculum
Deeper learning
Greater independence and responsibility
The Year Ahead…
The Year Ahead…
We are here to support you as you take risks, try new
things, make mistakes, challenge yourselves, overcome
those challenges, grow, become resilient, adapt to
change, learn new skills and, ultimately, SUCCEED!
Pastoral Care for Year 7 students
Head of Year 7
Jane Edwards
Year 7 Class Tutors
Miss Chris Gould
Mr Jon Dyer
Miss Diana Pruszkowski
Ms Molly Cafuta
Pastoral Care for Year 7 Students
Additional support within the school:
• Head of Senior School - Mr David Wallage
• Director of Learning - Ms Andrea Sherwood
• Head of Diversity – Mrs Rebecca Wilkins
• Coordinator of Wellbeing - Mrs Liz Collins
• School Psychologists - Mrs Rebecca Sharkey
- Mrs Melinda Pfueller
• School Chaplain – Rev Phil Hoffman
The Role of Head of Year 7 The Head of Year 7 is responsible for the overall development and wellbeing of the Year students, which includes: • Year 7 Pastoral Program • Regular communication with students, parents and care givers • Regular communication with the Year 7 Team and Year 7 Teachers to support Year 7 students • Tracking the progress of students at Year 7 • Handover process to Head of Year 8, Mrs Kate Johns, at the end of Year 7
The Role of the Year 7 Tutors Your child’s class tutor will help to support their overall wellbeing, academic progress and development of organisational strategies. • Morning tutor at the start of each day • Year 7 Pastoral lesson each week • Two long tutor sessions per week, including Wellbeing @ West • First point of contact for parental enquiry
Leadership Opportunities Year 7 Leaders
Sporting Opportunities
Performing Arts Opportunities
Service Opportunities
Opportunities to learn outside of the classroom
Orientation Day
• Students will become familiar with home room and class tutor.
• Students will become familiar with senior school times, lesson
structure.
• Students will be able to meet with their class peers and other
Year 7 students.
• Students will meet the school leaders for 2020.
• Students will meet Heads
of House.
• Students will tour the
school and meet staff.
• Friday 4th December 2020WELCOME! Year 7 students and families We welcome you to the Westminster Senior School
Q&A Kaine and Ruby – Year 12 Lucas and Sarah – Year 7
Thank you
After Mrs Sherwood’s presentation on curriculum,
please join us upstairs in the 100 and 200 block as
well as the Learning Resource Centre to meet our
teachers, who are ready to answer your questions.Year 7 2021 The Westminster Curriculum Mrs Andrea Sherwood Director of Learning
Year 7 2021 – Curriculum
an education worth having
“Intentionally Designed for the Future”What’s happening in the world?
The most valuable assets we now have are
what make us human. One of these traits is
what the World Economic Forum calls
“learnability”, the will and capacity to learn.
Burke (2017) at Columbia University calls this
ability learning agility, and he presents us with
nine facets of behaviour that combine into
learning agility: flexibility, speed,
experimenting, collaborating, information
gathering, feedback seeking, and reflecting.
Hoff, D. & Burke, W. (2017) Learning Agility. Hogan Press.It’s a VUCA world! VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The notion of VUCA was introduced by the U.S. Army War College to describe the more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous multilateral world which resulted from the end of the Cold War. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the 1990s and derives from military vocabulary. It has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range of organisations, including education.
What’s happening in the world?
Young people are our future and to be successful they need to understand what is required in terms of: • New skills • New capabilities • New complex competencies
The Competences (Cs) of the Future
The ‘Four Cs’ (21st) The ‘Four Cs’ (22nd)
• Communication • Connection
• Collaboration
• Care
• Critical Thinking
• Creativity
• Community
PLUS: Computational Thinking • CommunicationYear 6 to 7 Transition at Westminster School is well established
and features the following:
• Australian Curriculum
• Specialist Teachers
• Pastoral Care Team
• Academic Support
• Laptop Program
• Learning Management system - SEQTACurriculum in Year 7
• A broad range of subjects
• Core subjects
• Purposefully few Elective subjects
• Co-curricular activities
• ACARA Australian Curriculum
http://www.acara.edu.au
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Academic Curriculum
All students will engage in:
• Mathematics • The Future is Us (FUSS)
• Science - Digital Technologies
• English (+ Library) - Creative Arts – Art/Design
• Humanities and Social Sciences - Design and Digital Technologies
• Health and Physical Education - Drama
• Languages (Chinese, German, Japanese) - Food Technology
• Music • Pastoral Care Time
• Religious and Values Education
• Dance (elective)
• Wellbeing @ WestThe Future is Us (FUSS)
In the spirit of dealing with the ‘tricky’ world, this course is designed to help students to approach
problems, have agency and be resilient. The course is co-constructed with students.
• Develop “learnability” skills (see below)
• Develop learning agility
• Develop Critical and Creative Thinking skills Flexibility: willingness to try new things
• Develop Personal and Social Awareness Speed: rapidly grasping new ideas
Experimenting: testing out new ideas
• Subject specific knowledge, understanding and skills
Performance Risk Taking: taking on challenges
Interpersonal Risk Taking: asking others for help
Collaborating: leveraging the skills of others
Information Gathering: increasing knowledge
Feedback Seeking: asking for feedback
Reflecting: taking time to reflect on effectivenessFUSS Feedback from 2020 we had a lot of freedom
I really enjoyed doing coding, and my most memorable moment was
learning how to make different codes crashing the drone into the roof
I enjoyed it, working more I thought we could of had better
in groups was fun materials for our contraption
I haven't really done anything with cooking It was really fun but there is
before and I feel like trying to make room for self-improvement
something like this was fun
we never just sat there and had to
listen, it was really hands onThe Future is Us (FUSS) Academic Curriculum
• Critical and Creative Thinking
- Inquiring
- Generating
- Analysing
- ReflectingDuring FUSS students will explore the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, why they are important and how they relate to themselves. They will provide solutions to a diverse range of topic and project options that will require interdisciplinary and collaborative learning alongside mastery of discipline- based knowledge. They will link their learning experiences to the real world and have a sense of purpose in their learning.
Student Agency
Agency:
Students should emerge from their schooling as purposeful, reflective, responsible agents,
investing themselves actively to achieve goals they devise and endorse to shape the future for
the better.
Shaping their own future – the ingredients
• Purposeful - setting goals
• Reflective – knowing what to do and why
• Resilient - investing time and effort
• Responsible – knowing what is required and believing it can be achievedThe Future is Us: Organisation
• 6 lessons a week
• Different semester challenges
• Learning to Learn
• Subject specific content
• Combined groups with 3
teachers
• Mission Projects
• Grand ChallengeFor families wishing to discuss “Stretch” learning
Academic Support support, should make contact with
Mrs Rebecca Wilkins, Head of Student Diversity, at
School. rwilkins@westminster.sa.edu.au
• Individualised
• Flexible
• Proactive
• Responsive
• Small groups
• Targeted programs
• SEQTA Learning Platform for supportWestminster Values
Subject Selection Process for 2021
On the School Website
If you change your mind:
1) Email your changes to
asherwood@Westminster.sa.edu.au
2) Complete a subject change form (SSO)Year 7 2021
Curriculum Information
For more information contact
Mrs Andrea Sherwood
Director of Learning
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