At Whitefriars College we encourage all learners use resources and develop their talents to achieve personal excellence. To fully utilise one’s talents each student must reflect upon their learning and then use mistakes to further improve and grow. Consider a time in your learning when it didn’t go to plan and the desired result was not achieved. How did it feel? How did you learn from the mistake? Did you find an alternate solution? Did you do further research or ask questions to find out information so that you could learn to execute the skill or understand the knowledge?

Successful learners are always looking to improve or grow. This positive mindset is influential on academic achievement.

Last In Fide edition Mr. Trent Collins, Director – Middle Years, celebrated the Top 25 students in each year level (Year 7-11). These are students who applied themselves in their studies and achieved excellent academic achievement by demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and problem solving.

Importantly, this In Fide edition we recognise the students who have shown outstanding growth in their studies from the previous semester (Semester 2 2019 to Semester 1 2020). These students have reflected upon their learning, asked questions of themselves and about their learning, increased their work ethic and improved study habits (introduced effective homework strategies, notetaking, use of the library during and after school, asking questions).

Congratulations to the top 25 students in each year level for growth in their learning (note: Year 7 2020 is  not included due to no 2019 data):

Year 8

Year 9

 Year 10

Year 11

 Year 12

 

Mr Mark Ashmore

Deputy Principal – Learning and Teaching