19 February
Information
The PTA Annual General Meeting will be held on the 9th March at 7pm
followed by the monthly PTA meeting.
New members encouraged to attend.
“What Not To Wear”
A humorous evening with Fashion Stylist Lisa O’Neill
Wednesday March 17th at 7pm
Memorial Hall - Tickets $20
Can you help us sell tickets in your workplace, club, family and or
friends. This will help tremendously to make it a great success.
Awesome entertainment / great spot prizes etc.
Six Hat Thinking - One Hat At A Time
Just as teachers use the metaphor “Put on your thinking caps” to
engage student’s thinking, The Six Hat Thinking strategy uses the
metaphor of different coloured hats to engage students in different
types of thinking.
Using the hats demonstrates to students that thinking is a skill to
be learned and improved upon with practice. Six Hat Thinking
provides a framework for focused, constructive and productive
thought. It acknowledges that feelings and emotions are an
important part of thinking. The process is fun to teach and learn
at all levels. Each of the coloured hats stands for one kind of
thinking and when a particular hat is called upon, only the type of
thinking represented by that hat is allowed at that time. In this
way, students may look at an idea or issue from six very different
viewpoints before deciding upon the value of an idea or upon a
course of action to be taken.
The six different thinking hats developed by Edward de Bono include:
RED HAT: feelings Students describe how they feel about something
YELLOW HAT: strengths Students consider what is good about
something
BLACK HAT: weaknesses Students identify potential problems or
difficulties
GREEN HAT: new ideas What is possible? What can this lead to?
WHITE HAT: information Students access the truth about something.
BLUE HAT: thinking Students consider what thinking is needed to
Understand or to move forward.
At St Johns Hill School this thinking strategy is introduced at new
entrant level, and is developed, extended and enhanced as students
move up the school.
Voluntary Donation
Thank you to all who are paying or setting up payment of their
voluntary donation. $100 per child or $250 a family of 3 or more.
The following methods may be used to make payments:
· Cheque
or cash
(No eftpos available at the school office)
·
Automatic payment (Slips are available from office).
·
Internet Banking option should be made to:
St Johns Hill School 03 0791 0552038-00
[please quote student name as key].
As a
Decile 10 school we receive significantly less funding than that of
lower decile schools. It is believed by the Government that
families attending high decile schools have much better ability to
financially support their school. Although not as simple as that,
the school does appreciate your
contribution through your voluntary donation and also the help and
support provided to our hard working PTA in their fundraising
ventures, ie: selling tickets to friends/family/neighbours etc.
Thank you.
Health Promoting Schools Meeting
“Health Promoting
Schools are schools which display, in everything they say and do,
support and commitment to enhancing the emotional, social, physical
and moral wellbeing of their school community”
(World Health
Organisation)
Monday 15th March at 12.30pm in the School Meeting Room
Parent Teacher Meeting
Thank you to all parents/caregivers who were able to make this
meeting. It was good to be able to share with our community how our
students are currently achieving against expectations, to
further share how we keep you informed about your child’s progress
and achievement and also information about National Standards.
Teachers also appreciated your attendance so that they could share
with you aspects of their classroom programmes and expectations. It
is well known through research, that strong partnership between
school and home, where education is valued, helps the maximise
students progress and achievement.
Celebration
Recently Robbie Mclean had a “significant” birthday. His “lovely
ladies” wanted this photo put in the newsletter!!
