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were sent home with school reports at the end of last year.

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Confidence

Meaningful relationships lie at the core of the School’s values of confidence, independence, persistence, resilience and respect. Our teachers are deeply committed to the wellbeing of all students.  We aim to build student confidence by working together to supported their learning and their personal growth.

Confident children are not afraid to make mistakes when learning something new but we need to let them know that making mistakes is something we all do. Confident children believe that they will be successful if they try hard so it is just as important, if not more so, to reward effort as well as talent.  Encourage your child to ask for help when they have tried their very best but they feel that there is something missing. Confident children expect to be liked and make to friends but we know that’s not always as easy as it sounds. A knockback or rebuttal can be seen as a major setback resulting in trepidation to join in so as a parent or teacher we need to make positive supportive statements that don’t disempower but encourage the child to try again or move on. This is resilience another of our core values and the subject of another blog post.

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Digital Learning Technologies (DLT)

Our DLT Vision: (draft):

Digital Learning at IPS will be irresistibly engaging for students and teachers across all learning areas and domains. Our students will become innovative and confident users of digital technologies, using technology to communicate, collaborate, curate and create, while fostering higher order thinking skills and real-life problem solving. (IPS Vision Committee)

To achieve the school’s vision of increased hardware, better access for teacher professional development and greater technical support requires substantial financial commitment. Government funding is insufficient to permit the realisation of the school’s vision. In 2017 the school will ask parents to pay a DLT co-contribution to enable the progression of the school’s vision. Anyone who has visited a classroom, attended the cyber safety evening and or the impressive innovation day can see that community support is vital to continue this great work that directly benefits every student.

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