Brighton Secondary School
Newsletter ISSUE 8 I November 2016
From the Principal Recently, Brighton Secondary has had a high profile on the world stage. Congratulations to Year 10 students Nicole Kascak, Jesse Stevens and Luke Battjes who won second place in the F1 in Schools competition in Austin, Texas as well as the prestigious World Record for the fastest car. Congratulations to students Ellen Hamilton and Sung Bae who won Silver in the International Culinary Competition, beating one Japanese and two French culinary schools in the process. Other outstanding showcase events this term included the Year 12 Valedictory, the Jazz Cabaret and Lift Dance. All DECD schools are externally reviewed. Our School Review was in the last week of Term 3. The school develops two or three lines of inquiry for the Review Panellists to collect evidence. Our inquiries were as follows: 1. To what extent is learner voice evident across the campus? 2. As all students have a device and staff have multiple devices including interactive projectors, to what extent is challenge evident in the task design? 3. To what extent are the school’s professional learning and performance development processes effective in building teacher capacity to stretch and challenge the students.
The Review Panel was most complimentary about the diversity of opportunities available to students at Brighton. They offered the following directions for us to explore over the next four years before we are reviewed again: 1. Develop coherent, whole school, expectations that all students will achieve their potential. 2. Create expectations of, and opportunities for students to be responsible for their learning, so that staff and students are accountable for improved outcomes. 3. Embed professional learning into consistent and accountable pedagogical and assessment practices, to challenge all students to achieve their potential. 4. Raise the expectations of leaders and teachers to use data accountably to inform their work, and use Daymap to store and share their professional documentation and communicate with colleagues, students and parents. The official report will be published on the school’s web site as soon as it is available. Last week our Holdfast Partnership had its Annual Review resulting in similar directions regarding Learner Voice, use of data and engaging parents.
Olivia O’Neill Principal
Department for Education and Child Development T/A South Australian Government Schools CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A
305 Brighton Road North Brighton, SA 5048 P 618 8375 8200 F 618 8296 0949 E admin@brighton.sa.edu.au www.brightonss.sa.edu.au
Jordan Sims, Dux of BSS, being congratulated by Olivia O’Neill at the Valedictory.
The F1 in Schools wi nning car (the fastest F1 in Scho ols car in the world) sitting atop Nico Rosb erg’s fastest actual F1 car.
BRIGHTON SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER I ISSUE 8 I November 2016
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