The Restorative Practices and Conflict Resolution Workshop on Monday was a great success! Over 60 parents attended to hear our visiting expert Greg Jansen discuss strategies that you can use at home with your sons and daughters. We are pleased to say he is running an evening session this coming Monday too, 7.30-9pm, please come along to find out how you can incorporate these practices into your daily interactions with your children.

It was so unfortunate that the Years 7 to 9 Cross Country Event was cancelled this afternoon. We tried our best to make it happen but in the end it was not possible due to the Haze. We will let you know as soon as we can of any future replacement events.

Using The Hub as a window into the classroom

The Hub is used extensively throughout the Secondary School, particularly in Years 7 to 11, and teachers post lesson materials, units of work, assessments and Home Learning on the platform. By default, the Hub is set up so that parents can see the Home Learning easily on the App or via a Browser on a computer or tablet.

Overall Communication

This newsletter is an important part of our communication with our whole community. Through it we try to alert you to upcoming events and post important notices. As you know we also use direct email for very important, often year-specific events, such as overseas trips.

For Reports and Parents Evenings we use the Engage Portal, so you will not have too much interaction with that platform, apart from at key points in the year.

For most year groups in Secondary School we use The Hub to deliver lessons, as above. However, in Years 12 and 13 we use Managebac to help us to deliver and monitor the IB Diploma and parents have a view into that platform too.

For CCAs we use CHQ to manage all the events and the registration of learners at each CCA. It is unfortunate that there is nothing else quite like it on the market, but we are aware that it is an additional platform for you to use occasionally. However, in Secondary School, learners are responsible for choosing their own CCAs through CHQ.