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THURSDAY 25 MAY 2023 TORRES NEWS
YUMI College News
TA G A I S TAT E CO L L E G E
Literacy
Year 1 and 2 Students - Spelling Progress
Work on the Tagai State College Literacy System started in Term 3 of 2021 and has been ongoing. There are several compelling cases for this work to continue to develop as we progress. At the top of the list is the need to develop our own capability in the College to teach English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) for students to fluently speak, read, write and spell English. Our primary Literacy System Design strategy includes, Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh being our Flagship campus. The campus has been resourced with additional literacy specialists to help develop capability; of our Heads of Campus, teachers and our teacher aides to be highly competent to do this work with students. There have been some great news stories to come out of Term 1’s spelling data at Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh and all campuses.
The next piece of work is to engage with Dr Tim Lewis, Director of Positive Behaviour Interventions and Support (PBIS) from the United Stated to support us to engage authentically, culturally appropriately and sensitively with all students and their families. This is such exciting work to see our progress towards We Are One and We Are Many!
We have also developed interventions that are targeted at students who are not progressing at the same speed as their peers so that their learning continues to improve.
Literacy is taught in the morning. Ensure children are at school before the first bell. This new way of teaching is already showing great results that you can see in the graph. These results are the culmination of the quality of the teaching demonstrated daily by the teachers and the high quality of the professional learning developed by our dedicated support staff. All Primary Students - Spelling Progress
Head of School - Yolanda McLean
Year 3 to Year 6 Students - Spelling Progress
The graph shows our campus improvement from 2020 – 2023 in each of the 7 Essential Features of Positive Culture for Learning. Our aim is for all campuses to reach 95% or above.
Positive Culture for Learning We achieved a major milestone this year with five campuses, Poruma Ngurpay Lag, Masig Muysaw Ngurpay Lag, Badhulgaw Ngurpay Lag, Ugar Eruer Lag, Erub Erwer Uteb achieving 100% in their Schoolwide Evaluation Tool (SET) audit and four campuses, Kadhego Ngurpay Lag, Mer Eruer Uteb, Malu Kiyay Ngurpay Lag and Dauan Ngurpay Lag campus that achieved our 95% target or above this year. A huge shout out to all the staff and students involved for this achievement. The Purpose of the SET is to assess and evaluate the critical features of schoolwide effective behaviour support across each academic school year, which provides a snapshot of our Tier 1 performance.
Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudth Head of Campus Rick Cass
enjoyed the afternoon as they made their way home to start the weekend. Well done students!
Waybeni Koey
Classroom 3A
Head of Campus Matthew Tully Youth in Control Leadership Camp Over forty Year 11 students enjoyed an eventful stay at Irrki (Bamfield, Prince of Wales) for the Youth in Control Leadership Camp on Tuesday 16 May.
Colour Fun Run
Staff, students and parents were all excited to particpate and cheer on students at the Colour Fun Run on Friday 19 May. This event was an afternoon of joy for our students celebrating whole school attendance. Our target for this term is 90% and currently we are at 84%. Their colour-filled smiling faces showed how much everyone
Ngurpay Mudth
Students from Classroom 3A are using their new laptops for 21st century learning across all curriculm areas. ‘I love using laptops for our school work because it makes it fun’ Ryu
Queensland Mental Health, Lena Passi Womens Shelter and Thursday Island Community Justice presented “The Will of Respect”. By far the highlight for students was Mr Saliman Binjuda (Kaurareg Ranger), guiding group hikes, and leading and helping the students prepare the kupmari for their dinner. This camp was funded through the Local Thriving Communities Grant from DATSIP.Their ongoing support is truly valued by our campus.
Students and Staff were Welcomed to Country by Traditional Owner Kusa Wasaga (a former Tagai State College Student) and followed by engaging learning exercises/experiences across the four days. Activities were led by staff and special guests, including Queensland Police; delivering the Elevate program.
Special thanks to camp coordinators Ms LJ Shibasaki and Mr Damien Broderick, teaching staff and all the special guests for making this camp happen!
Mina big eso, it was so much fun!
