July Collegial Meeting Details

Hello everyone,

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 6th August 2015.  You can find all the details below.

Venue: Mooroopna Park Primary School, 45 Macisaac Road, Mooroopna

The meeting will be held in the school's staffroom.  Please enter the school via the main front door and enquire at the main office for directions to the Staffroom!

Date: Thursday 6 August 2015

Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm

Cost: gold coin donation to help cover afternoon tea

Parking:  Avaliable in staff carpark (access vis Macisaac Road), street parking on Macisaac Road or around the corner on Norton Drive.

Topic:  Bring along any 10 minute games.  These might be used at the start of a lesson or to fill in 10 minutes at the end of a lesson, or even when you have a spare 10 minutes to fill in.  These games could be played inside, outside, with resources or with minimal resources, cover maths, literacy or just be lots of fun.  

Catering: A light afternoon tea with continuous tea/coffee/hot chocolate (coffee machine and milk frothers).

RSVP:  We would love to hear who will be joining us.  If you are able to RSVP to Sheppartoncrtsupportnetwork@hotmail.com at least two days before the meeting, this will help us with the catering for afternoon tea.

If you have any quiries regarding this meeting, please email Mel at Sheppartoncrtsupportnetwork@hotmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Regards,

Mel and Jen

PD Day 2 - Inspiration through Daryl Brooks

Thursday July 8th.
Just signing in to say thanks to all people who attended our day with Daryl Brooks yesterday. He was able to capture everyone's attention and had loads of positives to say to us so that we felt valued from various view points, and his box of tricks session gave us MANY practical ideas for our own teacher's resource bag that we cart to school each time. Someone said "I would love to have seen what he had in his Box of Tricks", so I will try to get a list of that from him and share it. He certainly got us thinking about what we needed and where to get these new resources from!

I am glad that the Log samples were well received and that they added to your understanding. Again, it came through that now many people don't see 100 hours as such a mountain!!!

Anne's "Tribes" activity WAS as loud as a stack of animals at a sales yard!!
"Moo. Baaaa. Oink"
It was funny that a cow's calf ended up "belonging" in the same group as an elephant. Many thanks to Anne for this fun contribution.

Thanks to Anne, again, and Marilyn for their helpful, fun ideas in Daryl's session. These could easily start off our Gap Fillers / This Works for Me CD. More about that later on.

THANKS to the "kitchen hands" - Deanne, Elaine, Dorothy, Peter, Ralph and others - the staff will NEVER know we have been there!!! And THANKS to the furniture gang - Trevor, Russell, Peter, Graeme, Neville and Pat - you saved me LOTS of time and effort. Maybe we can start up a removalist career for you all?

I have emailed Jo to see if she can come and be our presenter for September and will inform all when I know.

Melbourne tomorrow, on the train, and lots to discuss with the other leaders around Victoria!

CHEERS!

Wendy