Hi there Mr C!
That's great about getting more classes involved. I'll try and get an English class who want to share their ideas with your students in SRC.
I can see the whole Faculty system that we are adopting here in some Scottish schools exists there in Western Australia. I think I will need to write a letter to your PM to ask him why there's no Business/Accounting/Economics on offer! I'll bet they're very popular subjects at University and Further Education Colleges! LOL
Our Headteacher, Mr Stewart, asked me to create a podcast to speak to you guys (I didn't have time to get my pupils to do it on Friday, but will do so in future). So anyway here it is:
http://memberdata.wildvoice.com/Big_Roch/media/GDayOz28032009.mp3
I hope youe students can understand my accent.
Audacity, the free software we use for podcasting, can be dowloaded here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
You can also look at or download my own little help guide on how to use it here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4107349/How-to-use-Audacity
Anyway, no BBQ for us I am afraid. Anyway look forward to your next post!
Saturday 28 March 2009
Thursday 26 March 2009
Hi everyone
I am in the process of linking up two teachers and their classes to write to you. One is a senior school English class the other a 4th year IT class.
I thought I might answer some of your questions in the meantime.
Our school uniform is white and dark blue, the students designed it themselves a few years ago. it is a choice of a polo top or white short sleeved shirt, no tie or blazer. Most student wear shorts or skirts for most of the year. It never snows here! We have a separate PE uniform.
We do 5 periods a day each about an hour, we start at 8.40 and finish at 3. We have school 40 weeks a year.
We study in 7 areas, English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, Technology (IT, Home Ec and Design and tech) Arts (art, music, drama, dance media and music) and PE. Can you spot which subject we don't do?
The school is 30 years old and has 600 odd kids from 12 years old to 17.
Students must stay on campus all day so they cannot go out for lunch, most bring sandwiches and eat in the gardens, a lot also buy from the canteen, which only sells healthy food. that is a law here. So no chips or fizzy drinks.
The canteen is really an area to buy food with room for 12 odd kids to sit down it is not really necessary to eat inside here due to our climate. It is a great new facility maybe one of the kids will send some photos if you ask them. We have had 6.5 million dollars spent here recently to do the place up.
The students skateboard, go to the beach, play sport or go to the shops in their spare time, I am sure they will be able to tell you more.
Most of our kids are local area intake so yes they live locally.
As far as being an Eco school, we are heading that way, so we would like some help and advice from you. We are currently upgrading our science labs to have two industry standard labs to train students in college certificates. One will be a rock sampling lab, as we do a lot of mining in WA, iron ore, copper, zinc aluminium gold etc. So a lot of Eco stuff has to happen to rehabilitate the area afterwards. We work with the local mine here and planted 12 000 trees last year for them and worked with the council to save the local river. Our kids have to do 20 hours community service in 3rd year.
The other lab will be wet for soil and water testing and aqua and horticulture and hydroponics.
We have solar panels fitted which we haven't used yet but will do soon for testing and teaching purposes.
Best wishes to all of you, hope to hear from you soon. It is going to be 36 degrees here today that is almost 100. So the air con is on. I will be having a BBQ for tea tonight what will you guys be doing and how is the weather?
Best wishes
Mr C
I am in the process of linking up two teachers and their classes to write to you. One is a senior school English class the other a 4th year IT class.
I thought I might answer some of your questions in the meantime.
Our school uniform is white and dark blue, the students designed it themselves a few years ago. it is a choice of a polo top or white short sleeved shirt, no tie or blazer. Most student wear shorts or skirts for most of the year. It never snows here! We have a separate PE uniform.
We do 5 periods a day each about an hour, we start at 8.40 and finish at 3. We have school 40 weeks a year.
We study in 7 areas, English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, Technology (IT, Home Ec and Design and tech) Arts (art, music, drama, dance media and music) and PE. Can you spot which subject we don't do?
The school is 30 years old and has 600 odd kids from 12 years old to 17.
Students must stay on campus all day so they cannot go out for lunch, most bring sandwiches and eat in the gardens, a lot also buy from the canteen, which only sells healthy food. that is a law here. So no chips or fizzy drinks.
The canteen is really an area to buy food with room for 12 odd kids to sit down it is not really necessary to eat inside here due to our climate. It is a great new facility maybe one of the kids will send some photos if you ask them. We have had 6.5 million dollars spent here recently to do the place up.
The students skateboard, go to the beach, play sport or go to the shops in their spare time, I am sure they will be able to tell you more.
Most of our kids are local area intake so yes they live locally.
As far as being an Eco school, we are heading that way, so we would like some help and advice from you. We are currently upgrading our science labs to have two industry standard labs to train students in college certificates. One will be a rock sampling lab, as we do a lot of mining in WA, iron ore, copper, zinc aluminium gold etc. So a lot of Eco stuff has to happen to rehabilitate the area afterwards. We work with the local mine here and planted 12 000 trees last year for them and worked with the council to save the local river. Our kids have to do 20 hours community service in 3rd year.
The other lab will be wet for soil and water testing and aqua and horticulture and hydroponics.
We have solar panels fitted which we haven't used yet but will do soon for testing and teaching purposes.
Best wishes to all of you, hope to hear from you soon. It is going to be 36 degrees here today that is almost 100. So the air con is on. I will be having a BBQ for tea tonight what will you guys be doing and how is the weather?
Best wishes
Mr C
Sunday 22 March 2009
Links to one of our classes
Hi everyone,
The weather here is nice today it is about 25 degrees. Their is a little bit of rain which is good as we have had a pretty dry summer, we need the rain.
One of our English teachers is very keen to blog with her class, so I may leave your questions to her and the students to answer.
If they take more than a few days I will get back on and answer them for you.
Glad we can all stay in touch. What has your weather been like?
Best wishes
Mr Currie
The weather here is nice today it is about 25 degrees. Their is a little bit of rain which is good as we have had a pretty dry summer, we need the rain.
One of our English teachers is very keen to blog with her class, so I may leave your questions to her and the students to answer.
If they take more than a few days I will get back on and answer them for you.
Glad we can all stay in touch. What has your weather been like?
Best wishes
Mr Currie
Friday 20 March 2009
Hello from 3H Business Administration
G'Day Oz!
Our Business Administration pupils have a few questions for some of your pupils. The class is made up of 14 and 15 year olds.
1. Do you have a school uniform?
2. What is the weather like in Western Australia?
3. What are the school colours?
4. How many periods/classes do you have a day?
5. What subjects do you study?
6. Is the school big?
7. Where do the pupils go for lunch?
8. What is the canteen like?
9. What do pupils do in their spare time?
10. Do you all stay locally in Gosnells?
11. What jobs do your parents/guardians do?
12. Are you a healthy eating school?
13. Are you an Eco School?
14. Do you have a favourite Rich Task (that's from Mr McGowan)
Our Business Administration pupils have a few questions for some of your pupils. The class is made up of 14 and 15 year olds.
1. Do you have a school uniform?
2. What is the weather like in Western Australia?
3. What are the school colours?
4. How many periods/classes do you have a day?
5. What subjects do you study?
6. Is the school big?
7. Where do the pupils go for lunch?
8. What is the canteen like?
9. What do pupils do in their spare time?
10. Do you all stay locally in Gosnells?
11. What jobs do your parents/guardians do?
12. Are you a healthy eating school?
13. Are you an Eco School?
14. Do you have a favourite Rich Task (that's from Mr McGowan)
Monday 2 March 2009
My visit to Hamilton grammar
As an ex student of Hamilton Grammar I was most impressed on my recent visit. My family emigrated to Australia in 1980 so my memories of it are as a child.
I know work as a Deputy Headmaster in a school in Western Australia, it is called Southern River College. Mr Stewart kindly offered to show me around. I was most impressed by the manners and the attitude displayed by all the students I met. Holding open doors for us, using great manners and generally being neatly dressed and well presented. The teachers were all keen to see us and share their time. I would have loved to spend a couple of days at the school, (maybe next time).
The facilities that you have are marvelous, I really liked the canteen area.
I am hoping that we can setup a link between our schools, I hope you have some suggestions on what we could achieve. I am sure we have a lot of students here that would like to be involved. Although we all speak the same language their are some pretty big differences between Australia and Scotland. My son who is now 13 had very seen snow until we visited the UK, imagine that. Also I am new to blogging so I may need some help, feel free to assist in any way you can.
All the best hope to hear from you soon.
Mr C
I know work as a Deputy Headmaster in a school in Western Australia, it is called Southern River College. Mr Stewart kindly offered to show me around. I was most impressed by the manners and the attitude displayed by all the students I met. Holding open doors for us, using great manners and generally being neatly dressed and well presented. The teachers were all keen to see us and share their time. I would have loved to spend a couple of days at the school, (maybe next time).
The facilities that you have are marvelous, I really liked the canteen area.
I am hoping that we can setup a link between our schools, I hope you have some suggestions on what we could achieve. I am sure we have a lot of students here that would like to be involved. Although we all speak the same language their are some pretty big differences between Australia and Scotland. My son who is now 13 had very seen snow until we visited the UK, imagine that. Also I am new to blogging so I may need some help, feel free to assist in any way you can.
All the best hope to hear from you soon.
Mr C
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