After a few weeks of interruptions due to various holidays, it was a relief to have a more settled and longer week for students. As you will know from the recent parents evening, we are concentrating a lot of effort on the student target setting process, in which students choose their own targets and teachers guide them on the strategies and tactics to achieve them. An acronym that you may well know is that targets should be SMART targets. There are different perceptions of what this word means, but a generally accepted one is that smart targets should be Specific, Measurable, Action focused, Realistic and Relevant and Time-based. The next report will be at the end of February and we hope that students use this as their next goal post and be able to review what progress they have made.
Other colleagues will post on this topic in more detail but on Tuesday we went to the beach. We didn’t take a picnic, swim in the ocean, or sunbathe, but we did break sweat and fill 150 large sacks full of rubbish leaving a 1 kilometre stretch of Al Liwa beach almost spotless. I was very proud of the students for achieving this and for working to improve the environment. It was a completely student led project with adults offering guidance and support so congratulations to the two grade 7’s and one grade 8 who collaborated to organise this event.
I wish you an enjoyable weekend!
Leo Thompson