Author: suzannewiles

PARENTS:

Many students come home from school and end up just waiting until they might ‘feel’ like doing schoolwork. Or else they drag everything out over the whole night. A much better way is each night have set allocated times for home learning. Many students find that learning in 20-30 minute blocks works well for them. During this time students should review work done at school first to make sure that they understand it fully. If they have questions, they can email their teacher to get clarification. Once they have done that, they should then focus on completing their homework or work on any assignments or upcoming tests. All distractions should be removed during this time, so students learn to focus for 20-30 minute blocks of time. It is a great idea to make a timetable of the home learning and place it on the fridge so everyone is clear when students are focusing and when they are doing other activities or having free time.

STUDENTS: Some of the benefits for students of having set times allocated for home learning are:

• You are more likely to learn at home if you know when to start and when to end.
• You will be more effective when you remove distractions and learn to focus for 20-30 minute blocks.
• In all the times NOT allocated to schoolwork you can do whatever you like without feeling guilty about it.
• Having set times stops arguments between students and parents as everyone has agreed when the timeslots allocated to students will be.
• You know that you are definitely doing enough work for school.
• Keeping your home learning and personal life separate means you will be able to manage all of the distractions in your life and still complete your work for school.

Learn more this year about how to improve your results and be more efficient and effective with your schoolwork by working through the units on www.studyskillshandbook.com.au . You can also print a sheet outlining independent learning activities (click on the More menu then on Things to Print). Our school’s access details are:

Username: ststephens
Password: 100success

Sarah Cooke

Careers Advisor

Our Senior Boys and Year 9 Boys basketball teams have progressed to the ACC Championship based on their results in Term 1.

The Senior Boys will compete in their playoff game next Wednesday 28^th April at 4pm in the gym against John XXIII College. Please come down and support them if you can! I think they were buoyed by the amount of support they had in their final game last term.

The Year 9 Boys will play their quarter final next Thursday 29^th April at 12:30pm at Leschenault Leisure Centre (Australind) against Our Lady of Mercy College.

A staggering $16,775 has been raised by our community in support of the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave! Duncraig staff and students braved the shave today – celebrating an amazing fundraising tally which will help families across Australia dealing with blood cancers. There’s still time to donate at https://loom.ly/J-ZFyWo

After a long and demanding term, It was so good to see how willing staff were to give more of their valuable time to helping students improve and refine their debating skills.  Jacob Kerspien (class of 2015) came to share his vast knowledge of debating with St Stephen’s School staff.