YUMI College News TAGAI STATE COLLEGE

Literacy and Positive Culture for Learning

We are Proud, Strong, respectful, safe, Life Long Learners of Torres Strait Languages and English Literacy

It warms our hearts to have our students and staff back after recharging their batteries on the holidays and able to stay the course we set two years ago in literacy. We look forward to having students ready and willing to be back in classrooms again.

Leading the way into this term, our Flagship’s Prep students and staff achieved some excellent results, in Term 1 and Term 2 when 14 out of 17 students achieved a C or above in their English pre-reading and spelling skills assessment. After only 2 Terms, their love of literacy is lighting the way. Our enrolments in Prep have increased by 20 children this year, from 32 in 2022, to 52 in 2023.

Waybeni Buway

Ngurpay Mudth

Head of Campus

Rick Cass

Positive Culture for Learning Rewards Day

On Tuesday 17 July, our campus celebrated attainment of their Positive Culture for Learning whole-school behaviour goal with a sausage sizzle.

2022

SSP Trial ResultsSystematic Synthetic Phonics

We can all be really proud of our 2022, 34-week Systematic Synthetic Phonics results. Look at the improvements in both Spelling and Reading between Term 2 and Term 4.

Just imagine what our student’s results will be like when our attendance improves.

Waybeni Koey

Ngurpay Mudth

Head of Campus

Matt Tully

The Tagai Show

Everyday Counts!

On Friday 14 July, our campus celebrated our Term 2 reward eventThe Tagai Show!

Students got to particpate in carnival style games, lucky door prizes, show bags and the sliming of school staff. Our teachers and teacher aides congratulate all students that successfully demonstrated a positive culture for learning, earning their eligibility to attend The Tagai Show.

Big eso to the G Block staff for organising and Mr O’Cloudy for set-up and pack down support.

Erub

Erwer Uteb

Head of Campus

Jody Warbrick

Term 2 Attendance - 42 Students Enrolled

Current 88% (37 students)

Target Goal 90% (38 students daily)

Literacy

Head of Department for Teaching and Learning, Miss Kate visited our campus last term. She provided constructive, positive and inspiring professional feedback to support our literacy program and teaching teams. Thanks Kate.

Positive Culture for Learning

Week 1 PROUD: I represent my school with pride.

Week 2 PROUD: What is PRIDE?

All 4 Behaviour Expectations –Proud, Respectful, Responsible and

Badhulgaw

Ngurpay Lag

Head of Campus

Paula Tweedie

Term 2 Attendance - 127 Students Enrolled

Current 83.9% (106 students)

Target Goal 90% (114 students daily)

Literacy

Learning to read and write is complex work! Our children have been working hard to master this skill that does not come naturally.

We have recently been testing our children on their progress and are delighted to report that many are showing pleasing results. Any children that are not progressing are being placed into targeted interventions to support their learning.

A shout out to the dedicated Badu staff team who are closely monitoring student progress!

Dauan

Ngurpay Lag

Head of Campus

Ben Maplas

Term 2 Attendance - 35 Students Enrolled

Current 82.3% (29 students)

Target Goal 90% (32 students)

Literacy

At Dauan Ngurpay Lag, we have a strong focus on literacy learning. Literacy is essential in achieving in every subject area, and allows students to access future success. Our signature literacy system is Systematic Synthetic Phonics.

Miss Colgan and Miss Pollock, two of our wonderful classroom teachers, have headed the literacy and intervention programs to assist our children to succeed.It is wonderful seeing the blossoming enthusiasm that our students have for both reading and writing under their tutelage.

Safe correlate.

NAIDOC Celebration

On Friday 14 July, we celebrated NAIDOC. Parents and community were invited to attend.

Our Erub elders were treated to homemade sweets and a cup of tea. The students performed their traditional dancing and singing as their entertainment.

Congratulations Miss Lala

We recognize and celebrate Miss Lala Gutchen for her 2023 National NAIDOC Caring for Country and Culture Award Category Award.

Miss Lala is the teacher aide at our campus, congratulations, Miss Lala.This is a tremendous recognition of your tireless commitment to preserve and protect your homelands and culture across the Torres Strait.

Thank you and farewell to Miss Laura

On Friday 23 June, all staff and students thanked & farewelled Miss Laura Gibson. Miss Gibson taught our year 5 and 6 students.

Special thank you to the staff, students and community to making this event spectular!

Positive Culture for Learning

“The Big 4” We are proud learners who are respectful, responsible and safe. In our classrooms:

We are proud learners: I participate in all classroom activities

We are respectful: I use whole body listening

We are respectful: I raise my hand to speak We are responsible: I listen and follow instructions

We are safe: I keep my hands and feet to myself

Athletics Carnival

On Tuesday 20 June, we held our annual Waii vs Sorbai Sports Carnival. It was incredible to see the sportsmanship that the children displayed on the day. In the end, Waii came away with the trophy. Several students tied for age champions this year.

Well done to everyone who helped and participated in this successful event.

Language and Culture

On Thursday 22 June, we held a celebration of the dancing that the children had been learning in Language & Culture, along with open classrooms for the parents. They were able to see all of the wonderful work their children had been doing all term. We love having the community join us for these special occasions. Thank you to Miss Baira for teaching the children the dances!

Positive Culture for Learning

As we return to Term 3, our Positive Culture for Learning focus is on reinforcing our campus expectations of being a Proud learner, who is Respectful, Responsible and Safe. Our students use a number of supportive approaches to navigating academic and social interactions.

Art Show

Our campus Art show was held last Friday 14 July. This provided an opportunity for students to demonstrate a term of artistic endeavours.

Athletics Carnival

This Friday 21 July, we will host our annual Athletics Carnival, one of our favourite events during the year. It seems like a crowd bigger than the island itself, joins us to encourage our students to throw, leap and run further than they themselves expect.