Scotch Oakburn College Middle School

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Scotch Oakburn College Middle School

• October 2010

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What is Middle Schooling?
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Research
Thinking Skills
Multiple Intelligences
Adolescent research
Middle School Student
Brain research learning styles
Current theories of Learning.
Gender research
Teaching for meaning understanding
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Vision for Learning

• We seek our students to become
• Inquiring and reflective thinkers
• Effective communicators
• Self-directed, well-balanced and ethical
  thinkers
• Responsible citizens
• World contributors
• Informed, lifelong learners

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SOC Curriculum Framework
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What is 21st Century Learning?
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The SOC Middle School

• Engaging
• Learning is differentiated rigorous
• Literacy and numeracy
• 21st Century Skills
• Inquiry-based learning
• ICT rich

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• Belonging to a House
• Middle School House Head
• Senior School House Head
• Weekly meetings
• Chapel
• House Meetings
• Tutor Groups (vertical 6-12)
• Year Group meetings
• House events
• Carnivals/competitions singing, swimming,
  athletics, cross-country
• Chapel service, Fete, House fund raising

• Pastoral Structure

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Year 6

• Based in home room with class teacher
• Strong focus on literacy and numeracy
• Working in blocks of time
• Literacy, Numeracy, Studies of Society and
  Environment, Science, The Arts, Wellbeing
• Specialist teachers Visual Art, Music, HPE,
  ICT, Library/Literacy, LOTE Auslan
• 5 days Education Outdoor Far South/Far North

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Year 7 2 Week Cycle (60 lessons)

• 14 Humanities (English SOSE)
• 9 Maths
• 7 Science
• 5 Japanese
• 5 French
• 4 Music
• 5 HPE (Health/PE)
• 1 Beliefs and values
• Semester based subjects (half a year)
• 5 Art 5 Food Technology
• 5 Drama 5 Applied Technology
• Wellbeing day - once a term
• 5 days Education Outdoors Valley Campus

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Year 8 2 Week Cycle (60 lessons)

• 14 Humanities (English SOSE)
• 9 Maths
• 8 Science
• 2 Music
• 6 HPE (Health/PE)
• 1 Beliefs and Values
• 5 French or Japanese
• Semester based subjects (half a year)
• 5 Art
• 5 Food Technology
• Option subjects (2 subjects each semester)
• Drama, Dance, Applied Technology, Textiles,
  Environmental Studies, Digital Media,
  French/Japanese, Music
• Wellbeing day - once a term
• 6.5 day Education Outdoors In and around the
  Valley Campus

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Reports Student /Parent Teacher Interviews
Year 6, 7 8

• Student/Parent/Teacher interviews
• Early in Term 1 Years 6, 7 8
• Middle of Term 2 Years 6, 7 8
• Reports
• Years 6 7 End of Tem 1 (May) and December
• Year 8 End of Semester (July) and December
• Student-Led Conference October-Yr 6 7
• Year 8 IY8 Project - Presentations

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Communication

• Middle School House Heads
• Jennene Richardson - Nance
• Pete Smith - Briggs
• Nicky Reid - Dean
• Cale OKeefe Fox
• Individual class or subject teachers
• Core team teachers in Year 7 8
• (Maths, Science and Humanities)
• Transition Coordinator Louise Fitzgerald
• Year 6 Coordinator Jan Petterwood
• Wellbeing Coordinator Kylie Wolstencroft
• School Bulletin on-line