The schools in the Mountains Network currently engage in regular dialogue, shared professional development and combined student activities. This initiative.

The schools in the Mountains Network currently engage in regular dialogue, shared professional development and combined student activities. This initiative will allow the schools to share KLA scope and sequence allowing the schools to use technology across the schools to further enhance learning opportunities

Basically the schools will be undertaking the same unit at the same time using technology to link the schools and reducing the work load of the schools in that units will be shared.

One school prepares one unit over 4 years- think smarter not harder.

Schools will ensure continuity of the technology skills base within their schools by undertaking the same units at the same times basically increasing numbers of students in each stage.

Schools will strengthen the existing Mountains Network through professional learning partnerships in teaching the same units at the same time

Agenda. 9.15 Welcome to Country. Brungle School Children 9.20 Welcome ,background ,what has already

happened, (kid training) agenda, outcomes Conclaves, (how they work) Scope and

Sequence. 9.40 Answering the Questions. What Unit.? When?   10.30 Stu’s Quizz Boxes. How Do they work Anne

Maree 11.00 Morning Tea 11.30 Designing questions for Stu’s Quizz box. (think

pair share) 12 .30 On Line Science Challenge . Rebecca Sini 12.45 Lunch 1.15 Conclaves split and discuss how they will work as

teams. (brainstorm) 2.00 Share. 2.30 Where to now? Summary 3.00 Finish.  

WHY? The initiative was becoming too big. School scan join by coming into a conclave or forming another conclave.

The following Conclaves have been suggested .   CONCLAVE 1 (small schools)  Brungle PS Binalong PS Bongongo PS Cabramurra PS Talbingo Jugiong PS Khancoban PS Rosewood PS + Nangus and Humula (Non-CAP)    CONCLAVE 2   Batlow Technology School All Saints- Tumbarumba St Mary’s West Wylong St Marys Batlow   Tumbarumba Public  

CHILDREN - At the BRUNGLE CAMP

STAFF -At the Planning Day

2012/16 WHOLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM OVERVIEW  Term 1

Environmental Education - (Note New policy coming in.)

Science and Technology -Inventions-change over time

Human Society - Aust. Explorers

P.D. Health and P.E. - Gymnastics

Camps / Excursions   Thought only: Environmental 3 Day Camp at Yarrangobilly Caves

Mountain Magic Planning Day- Information This is a follow up of yesterday’s meeting held at Brungle School. It is a draft and I may have missed some items. Please addend and send back. We will trial the “Explorer’s” unit in Term 1 2012. Jugiong and Cabramurra will write up the first unit for everyone. Every school will have to write up one unit for everyone else at some stage over the next

few years. Brungle will write up the next unit for term 2 which is “Minibeasts”. We will use the development day of term 2 to evaluate and prepare for the following year. We will have the first Videoconference in week 3 and we will be using “Stu’s quiz boxes for

this. The first three of these are attached with questions but will only open up if you have

downloaded the program. These will be used for immersion and tuning in and finding out what the students already know.

All students will learn about all explorers from the other schools. We will be having videoconferencing every Tuesday between 2 pm and 2.45pm Each school will have to chose an explorer to work on in detail and do a presentation for

the rest of the schools during weeks 9 & 10 on the Tuesday. This presentation will need to be in electronic form as in a movie, powerpoint etc.

Each school will have to research and prepare a “stu’s Quiz Box.”on their chosen Explorer.

Schools can/will combine to undertake the research on one main explorer and become the expert on this explorer. They will also use Video conferencing to work on their explorer.

Term Plan (draft) Week – 2 Schools undertake Stu’s Quiz Box one 3 Video Conference for all schools.- Outcomes and expectations given

to students. 4 Schools undertake Stu’s Quiz Box 2. Finding out what the children

know. start own explorer research. 5Schools undertake Stu’s Quiz Box 3 and continue own explorer

research and video conference like explorer school. 6 Individual school work on chosen explorer and video conference like

explorer school. 7 Video conference- All schools brief overview of where they are up to.

Prepare their “Stu’s Quiz Box. 8 Finalize presentation, undertake quiz box trial with like explorer’s

school 9 Presentation time 10Presentation time Week 1 Term 2 Review day – Brungle PS

RUN WITH MORE UNITS.

Contributing Schools Anne- Maree Participating Schools Schools who completed the Scope and

Sequence.