We have officially ‘Launched’ our terms Effective
Communicator!
This term it is our team’s job to promote one of our new
graduate areas. All last year as a school we worked on what we wanted our new dispositions
to be called and the steps in which students would achieve them. Where would
they start at the beginning of school? What they would need to do to achieve
the next step and so forth. We used words like ‘starting’, ‘learning’, ‘using’
and ‘leading’.
Each team was given the challenge to launch a new one each
term. We choose Effective Communicators. Term one was Team Players where as a
whole school we spelt the words out on the field and the Ninja Turtles arrived
by helicopter to present us with a gift. Term Two was Self- Managers and the whole
school watched a magician and he promoted the idea of Self manager.
Now it is our turn! One of the main ideas I had wanted to do
was to promote Effective Communicators right throughout the term. Rather than
just having a launch at the beginning of the term, I wanted to continue involving
the whole school until the end of term three. Making sure the students had a
good idea about what it meant to be an effective communicator.
I am very fortunate that I work with a great team and there
were plenty of ideas flowing. Knowing that I am a ‘yellow’ brain and that I
tend to think outside the box, I did run a lot of the ideas past our principal
first to gauge whether or not I was heading down the right track.
Obviously I can’t give away what we are doing all term but I
can show you our first week and what we did.
We first used our News Centre to communicate to the rest of
the school they needed to watch our video we had made.
By watching the video, they received their next task.
The clue was printed onto a colourful background and rolled
into a scroll and placed into their Effective Communicator bags.
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| The first weeks clue to solve |
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| Each class has their own bag. |
