30 September
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For this Week
Name Badges
ESF Child Protection PD
Free Upcoming PD Opportunities
- Staff Calendar
Good morning everyone! Thank you again to all the teachers for giving up their time on the recent weekends for the various PD sessions. I hope there were some positive takeaways. We do have a short week! Hang in there :)
For this Week
Monday: No SPOT speech therapy (Joice is on leave)
Tuesday: Public Holiday
Wednesday: Teacher Lunch Meeting (Staffroom)
Friday: Senior Leadership Conference
The ESF Senior Leadership Conference is this Thursday and Friday. Laura, Brenda, and I will attend both days, but you can still reach us by phone. In the event of an emergency, please call us immediately.
I have no doubt that you will continue to support each other and use your collective expertise to resolve any matters that may arise. Jaz and the admin team will be available to provide additional support as needed. Jaz will be a point of contact for any operational or administrative inquiries. Please feel free to buzz down to the admin team for assistance during this period. I appreciate your support in advance 🙏🏼
Name Badges
We've sourced new name badges with plastic clips! We've tested them with a few K1 children, and their little fingers can manage them quite well. The admin team will work hard to prepare these for after half term. If we need a bit of extra help cutting or inserting the name badges, we'd appreciate it if the class EAs could lend a hand.
Child Protection PD - The six R's of managing Harmful Sexual Behaviour in schools
Date and time: Wednesday, 16 October, from 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM HKT
Zoom link: To be shared with participants closer to the event
Join us on Zoom as we meet with Laura Nott from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation for a mini-workshop on managing Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) in schools, using the Lucy Faithfull Foundation's 'Six Rs' model.
We will look at Professor Simon Hackett's continuum of sexual behaviours and explore widely available traffic light tools, considering the particular needs of Learning Diversity students. There will be a short Q&A session, so please come ready with any queries you want to discuss.
Sign-up is live now on Gateway.
Free Upcoming PD Opportunities
The Power of Play Materials (from Free to Play), 26-27 October, no cost, all online
Learn from 16 play-based experts how to bring a robust variety of play materials to nurture and support your student's growth and development and how to manage it all.
** Hillside has already purchased a lifetime access pass to this upcoming summit, so no pressure to watch everything within a 24-hour window. We'll pass on the login details once the summit has ended.
IB Exchange (via myIB), year-round, all online
The IBO has launched a new version of IB Exchange on myIB for educators to access a bank of free learning and teaching materials, connect with educators across the globe, engage with free micro-learning modules, and even earn micro-credentials at low cost. An example of what's on offer:
Please ensure you have the IB Exchange icon on your myIB landing page (instructions here for how to do this). If you don't have a myIB account yet, please register, and we will approve it for you. FYI, here's a 4-min refresher video on navigating the myIB website.
Upcoming Dates
Please check our internal calendar below. We might forget to remind everyone of odd dates. We will continue to add events to the calendar as soon as it's confirmed. Here's the full 2024/25 Calendar.
Thank you!
