14 Annual Newsletter 2012 Week 50 [pdf, 10 MB] - Kelso High ...

ENRICHING EXPERIENCES
ILEARN – 2012
Kelso High Campus has again successfully completed
a range of transition activities for students currently in
Year 6 who will be attending Kelso High Campus in
2013.
Around 150 students from partner public schools and
local non-government schools have participated in the
program.
Each term students were able to participate in activities
which gave them an opportunity to utilise our facilities
and experience curriculum areas not always available
to them prior to Stage 4.
Kelso High Campus teachers are generous in their time
which enables the program to operate. This generosity
is greatly appreciated and is typical of the staff at our
school. The program diversity is fabulous with students
given an opportunity in Science, Environmental
Science, Drama, Timber Technology, Food
Technology, German and Visual Arts.
The iLearn program is part of a larger transition
program that includes information nights, schools visits
by key personnel and an orientation day.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology management and upgrading continues to be an
ongoing priority at Kelso High Campus.
2012 has seen the introduction of the Sentral integrated
management system which allows the curriculum and welfare
records to be accessed and managed within the same
package. This has seen the new reporting system introduced,
attendance being able to be tracked electronically, both in roll
call and for each of the day’s lessons, welfare issues being
recorded and tracked, and student activities such as
excursions and sporting competition being organised through
this system.
A rollout of desktop computers saw new computers being
installed in the Library Computer Room, and a second
computer room being upgraded. Year 9 student received their
new laptops as part of the Digital Education Revolution.
Many parents would have experienced the online booking of
parent interviews in semester 2. This proved to be a successful
progression, increasing the control parents have over interview
times.
The school now has a Facebook presence which has seen
quite a lot of activity. In 2013 we hope to make this a more
universal means of communicating with the school community.
It is intended to be a means of quickly communicating a whole
range of information from the likes of sporting results to
excursion punctuality to promoting activities within the school.
In term 3 eighty students attended a video gaming workshop
where they had commercial software demonstrated and then
developed skills in this area. All students received the
development software “Unity” and many have been highly
engaged with this since.
Clickview video distribution continues to be used across the
school whereby our library of approximately 2500 educational
titles can be access by teachers in the classroom and students
on their laptops via Clickview online. This modern resource
greatly enhances the learning environment for students.
Many parents, students and staff have contributed to a number
on online surveys that have been distributed this year. These
electronic surveys provide the school with valuable information
and contribute to the development of future directions for
programs in the school.