Tuesday 27th of October 2015

Year 10 Student Leaders

Last week, the newly appointed Year 10 student leaders had their first development days in role. This included sessions at school on items such as ethical leadership, followed by a gala dinner, an overnight hotel stay and further training and teamwork development activities on Saturday. Miss Newton structured a great program which left students feeling confident and excited about the prospect of leading change in at GIS this year. Here are a few pictures of the development days:

As a side note, one of the student leaders, Ashleigh Poh, could not make the leadership training sessions last week due to the previous commitment of leading the school's Tennis ambitions at the Fobisia Tennis Tournament at the National Tennis Centre in Jerudong, Brunei. Impressively, Ashleigh was the first under-15 qualifier and even made the newspaper!

Monday 5th of October 2015

Year 10 Camp Reflection 

“We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience.” - American philosopher John Dewey.

Reflection is widely regarded as the most important part of the learning process. Following a week at camp, I would certainly encourage all of the Year 10 students to take some time to reflect on their experience over the next week. Today in tutor time, students completed an evaluation of the trip and will be looking at an experiential learning ladder later in the week to identify what skills they have used / developed during the trip. 

As head of Year 10, I was really impressed by the number of students who pushed themselves out of their comfort zones and with the support of their peers, overcame fears. Over the course of the week students experienced caving, white water rafting and high ropes activities in the 'Mountain school'. Photo's from the camp will be added to the folder here over the next few days.

Thanks for supporting the camp trip this year!