Middle School Information Evening

At St Edmund’s College, we are fortunate to have educators with expertise and passions across different fields and interests, and many with a particular interest in the middle school years (Years 7 to 9). 

With academic success, physical and mental wellbeing, and spiritual growth being at the centre of what we do, we understand the importance of a holistic approach to schooling. 

We warmly invite you to our Middle School Information Evening to take part in two workshops that will allow you to take a more active role in your son’s education and how working in partnership with St Edmund’s will prepare your son for a brighter future.

Upon registering for this event, please select the TWO workshops you would like to attend. Each workshop will last 25 minutes.

WORKSHOPS

1. Guide to EDE: This session will provide you with the knowledge of how to use both EDE and TASS to help your son succeed at Eddies. Areas covered will allow you to follow how you son is progressing, see what work he has due, work completed in tasks, his grade and feedback on drafts and final submissions. It will therefore provide you with the information needed to help your son be organised and improving. We will also examine how this system will help you communicate with the school.

2. Numeracy - Developing a growth mindset in Mathematics: Developing a growth mindset in Mathematics is an approach to teaching mathematics which believes that mindset is more important than initial ability in determining the progress made by students in their mathematical understanding. To develop this mindset, we must break the stigma of mathematics at home.

3. Literacy - Write what you want to say: Become familiar with our Write That Essay program and help your son become a better writer. Learn and master the different sentence and paragraph styles to help your son write what he wants to say.

4. Pathways - Importance of the Middle Years: The middle years of schooling lay the foundation for the senior years. It’s not too early for students to start considering their pathway through school and beyond. In this session, you will gain an understanding of transferable skills and how they are applicable in the ever-evolving workplace.

5. Emergence of Social Media: Understanding the connected world of kids and teens can be challenging for parents because adults don’t communicate online in the same way and are not necessarily using the same social media. Even more challenging is the reality that there’s always something new coming around the corner. This workshop is designed to help parents better understand how their kids are using social media and to provide them with tips and tools they can use to help them minimize negative experiences and maximize the positive opportunities that social media has to offer.

6. Time Management 101: Secondary school is a time of exponential change in family life. Balancing an increasing variety of competing commitments is tricky business. This session explores tangible strategies to maximise organisation and allow our young men to take greater responsibility in managing themselves and their time.

7. Cornell Notes: Taking notes is critical to your academic success, but many students do not know how to take notes effectively. The Cornell method forces you to think critically about the key concepts from each lesson and to explain those items in detail, making it more likely that you will remember them later.

8. Mental Wellbeing - Building resilience: Our counselling team will present information on teenage behaviour, mental health, and resilience. Using simple concepts, we will highlight family success. Assisting parents to do what they do best, help boys with love care resilience and personal achievement. On completion of our session, you will better understand stress and the change process. Boys do well when they can, families are no different we all achieve our best when our stress level is low, and we feel encouraged. We will look at block’s teenage development.

9. Physical Wellbeing - Importance of regular exercise, a healthy diet, and enough sleep: The research is clear that regular physical activity, a healthy diet, and enough sleep can help children and adolescents improve cardiovascular fitness, build strong bones and muscles, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, reduce the risk of developing health conditions later in life, and improve focus and productivity.

10. Library Services: Libraries are no longer the quiet, dusty repository of books that they once were.  St Edmunds College Library is a dynamic, busy, vibrant digital and physical space.  Explore the virtual and physical resources and services available to our students to foster an engagement in learning.  Learn about the digital resources such as databases and CiteMaker that will enhance student learning.