A New Year!!!!

The year is nearly over but inquiry is continuing at ODS. Lead Teachers has been on maternity leave so she is back and whip is being cracked.
For the final unit of the year the staff have decided to have an arts focus. An Aritists World - students are to inquire about various art movements and for their action, design and create a wearable art costume that shows their understanding of their classes art movement.

As a continuing learning development for the staff, I have asked each staff member to set themselves a goal for developing understanding of inquiry learning. This is a target for their teaching as well as refining understanding of inquiry for students. We have only just developed our inquiry model, and need time to practise to ensure this style of teaching and learning can be sustained in our school. Our assessment rubric has been revised earlier in the year and classroom displays have been updated.

This unit is a challenging one as it is new learning for not onlythe students buy also some of the staff - an exciting term is ahead of us.