What a month it has been for our ASPIRE students! The students have adapted well to being back in the classroom and have enjoyed participating in a variety of classroom activities. The ASPIRE program has a strong focus on building interpersonal skills and discovery through group work, as well as developing problem-solving skills and risk taking in learning. It has been great to see many classes utilising group work, often outside in the beautiful weather! The Year 8 class have participated in some great activities, including making human graphs outside with Ms Grey-Smith and doing a Heart dissection and other experiments with Mr Dunkley. The Year 7 class have been doing their Science Investigations with Mrs Raven and completing stem and leaf plots, pie graphs and line graphs as they learn about Statistics with Mrs Salmon. 
In what has been an interesting and challenging year, I want to congratulate the ASPIRE staff and students for their hard work and dedication to their teaching and learning. I look forward to further developing the program next year. Hopefully we can get some excursions planned! Keep an eye out for information regarding the testing day and program for any prospective students in 2021.  

   

Kara Salmon 
ASPIRE Coordinator and High Ability Practice Leader.