Back Into Teaching and Learning Term 1 Week 5 Completed

24 Feb 2023

It is pleasing and rewarding to see our students well and truly back into learning in 2023 with a positive mindset striving to become the best they can be. This is not just in our classrooms at school but on excursions, engaged in work with our business partners, sport, creative and performing arts, leadership and the list goes on.

We commence our Gifted and Talented (High Potential and Gifted Education - HPGE) programs in Week 6. This will see a significant number of year 5 and 6 students joining our Plumpton High School students in programs after school between 3:00-5:00pm from Plumpton, Glendenning, and William Dean Public Schools. These students are joined by students in Years 7 and 8 and Students in Years 9-12 enrolled in separate classes.

As parents and carers please contact the school should you wish to discuss your children’s’ learning please contact your child’s teacher or for wellbeing your child’s Positive Psychology teacher.

We are looking forward to another successful year in partnering with our families, the broader community and business partners to provide opportunities that will secure our students pathways to long-term success.

Why are home-school partnerships important?

“Research has found that parental or family involvement in school-based learning activities is correlated with improved student outcomes. A comprehensive meta-analysis comparing a wide range of educational interventions found that parent involvement had a larger effect on student academic achievement than most other interventions. Other longitudinal studies suggest parental involvement is more strongly connected to achievement and attainment than the family’s socioeconomic background, cultural background or family structure. Parental involvement is associated with better psychosocial adjustment and higher achievement at age 7 and at age 11, although the findings on the impact on adolescents’ learning is mixed. However, the benefits of parent involvement in one school subject or area are also found to be confined to that area, that is, parent involvement in reading improves students’ reading attainment but not their attainment in mathematics”.

Tim Lloyd, Principal

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