Parent Information
Evening
Middle School
Thursday 7 February 2008
Middle School
Procedures
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Diaries
Uniform
Form classes and Form teachers
Specialist Lessons
Absentees
Behavior Management
Middle School Timetable
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7 x 45 minute periods
Form and Subject Teachers
Form time - last 15 mins (2:45 - 3:00pm)
Pastoral Lessons - 3 Mornings per week
Chapel and Assembly + Middle school
time
Middle School Staffing
• Mr. Hamish Pike - Team Leader Middle School /
Sports Master / WHSO (PE)
• Mr. Bob Nicholson - Team leader Yr 4-6 + Yr 7
Form Teacher (English + Maths + SOSE)
• Miss Melissa Heirdsfield - Year 8 Form Teacher
(Drama, English + SOSE)
• Miss Sarah Smith - Yr 9 Form Teacher (Japanese +
SOSE)
• Dr Brett Sawyer - Yr 10 Form Teacher (Science and
Mathematics)
• Mrs Diana Patchett – Assistant Principal (Yr 8
Mathematics and Science)
Aims of the Middle School
• Develop a pastoral relationship with Form
Teacher
• Facilitate personal reflection and introspection
• Encourage personal development
Other MBBC Opportunities
• Co-curricular activities
• Camps and excursions
• Leos, Debating, Friends of the Nature Refuge
Behaviour Management
• To support the development of personal
responsibility, organisation and socially
acceptable behaviour
• Consequence Chart (Student Diary and
Parent Handbook)
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• Reminder
Signatures
• Detention
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• Positive
Signatures
• House Points
• Award cards
Term One Focus:
Homework, Uniform, Courtesy
How can you help?
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Routine
Regular check of Student Diary
Encouragement and support
Be involved (P&F, Class Rep, College events,
Friends of the Nature Refuge)
• Be informed (newsletter)
• First point of contact Form Teacher
• If further action – Consult parent inquiry
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MATHLETICS
• Your son’s subscription to this
programme is a 24hour/7day
subscription. Therefore the boys can
access Mathletics at home and earn
points toward certificates. Teachers will
be able to check what they have
worked on in their own time.
Homework
As per Student Diary
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Year 7 – 9 will be expected to
complete between 40 and 75 minutes of
homework per night
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Homework is issued on a nightly /
weekly basis
Year 7
KLA
Term One
Term Two
English
Constructing Narratives Novel Study –
“Holes”
SOSE
Monster Storms/
Weather
Science
Eco Housing
Monster Storms/ Myth
Busters
Mathematics Number, Measurement Number, Chance
and Space
and Data, PreAlgebra
Year 8
KLA
Term One
Term Two
English
Making the News
Mythology/Short
Stories
SOSE
World War I
Ancient Civilisations
Science
Dry Ice
Our Body the Machine
(Biology and Nutrition)
Mathematics Whole Numbers
Shape and Line
Location, Direction
and Movement.
Common Fractions.
Decimal Fractions
Year 9
KLA
Term One
Term Two
English
Gender and
Stereotypes
Romeo and Juliet
SOSE
Human Rights/
Crusades
Aboriginal Studies
Science
Lord of the Weeds/ Push, Pull, Collide
Nature Refuge
(Intro Physics)
Mathematics Financial
Decisions
Indices
Length, Area and
Volume. Expanding
and Factorising.
Investigating Data
Library
• Open during lunchtimes
– There will be a quiet area for silent work
• 3pm to 4pm Tuesday – Friday
– Research, assignment preparation,
homework, borrowing and reading
– Not child-minding
Camps
• Middle School Moreton Island Camp –
Week 9, Term 3
– Fishing, swimming, snorkelling, 4WD
touring, orienteering, sand tobogganing,
climbing sand dunes, games, living
together, washing up, and many more
exciting experiences
– Extension program for Year 9
Personal Development
Focus is different in each Year level
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Yr 7 – Personal Hygiene
Yr 8 – Nutrition
Yr 9 – Drug Education
All Grades – Personal Development and
Human Development
Representative Sport
• Boys can represent MBBC at District, Met
East and State Level
• Yr 7 is still Primary (Wynnum and Lytton
District)
• Yr 8, 9 is Secondary School (Gateway District
and Metropolitan East)
• All representative sports are by nomination
through Sports Coordinator (MBBC)
Parent Involvement
• Class Parent Representative
– Point of contact between class parents and
P&F, teachers, other parents
– Mobilisation and organisation and of support
for special activities such as Carnival Day,
night and other social activities
• Support-a-Reader (from 30 mins/week)
– Support readers from Years 1 – 10
– Training provided – Wed 13 Feb 3pm
The Secret to Success…
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Hard Work
Perseverance
RESILIENCE!!
Dedication
The will to succeed
Always giving of
your best
• Setting Goals
Year 7
Bob Nicholson
nicholsonb@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Year 8
Mel Heirdsfield
heirdsfieldm@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Year 9
Sarah Smith
smiths@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Year 10 / Science and Maths
Brett Sawyer
sawyerb@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Team Leader
Hamish Pike
pikeh@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Assistant Principal / Deputy Principal (Curriculum)
Diana Patchett
patchettd@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Marie Perry
perrym@mbbc.qld.edu.au
Thank you
We welcome you all to introduce
yourself to your son’s Form
Teacher now and so we will head
off to individual classrooms for the
next 15 minutes.