2. MAP

3. What is Middle Years? Middle Years spans from the age of 10 through to 14. Experience significant physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral changes. More rapid and dramatic hormonal and structural changes than at any other period in their life. Changes to brain and cognitive development peak during this period. Success comes through managing the emotional, social and moral challenges of this stage.

4. Why Middle Years at Malvern Central School? Malvern Central School is a unique context that caters for students through to Year 8. Unique with a dedicated team of teachers teaching in the Middle Years area – meaning that all teachers know all students. Malvern Central School teachers are specialists in catering for the needs of Middle Years students from Years 5 through to Year 8.

5. What does Middle Years learning, playing, developing, socialising look like at Malvern Central School? curriculum that is negotiated, relevant and challenging flexible and mixed student groupings cooperative learning and collaborative teaching ownership of learning and taking responsibility for decisions and actions building social skills higher order thinking

6. SPACES

7. Positive Psychology

8. Student Choice – what did the students say about Student Choice’ at Malvern Central School ? The programs I enjoy/learn most from are (you may choose as many as you like): The graph shows that Performing Arts and P.E were the most popular programs. Some Middle Years students would like more opportunities to participate in activities such as cooking, sports, performances, learning other languages, ICT, robotics, gymnastics, book clubs and woodwork.

9. Student Choice – what did the students say about ‘Student Choice’ at Malvern Central School? I learn best in groups when: This graph shows that students learn best in groups when: they are with their friends; they are with a mixture of both boys and girls; and when they are working with students in their year level.

10. Discovery Program

11. Junior School Council

12. Japanese

13. Literature Discussion Groups: Student Reflections I’ve enjoyed discussing the books. You get to be with other people that you normally don’t socialise with but that you share a common interest with. I like the way that we got involved in a story and used stick it notes. It was interesting working with the students in different classes …hearing what they thought of the books. We got to know people that we wouldn’t really speak to before. I liked the books because we actually got into the real meaning of the story.

14. Science

15. The Arts

16. Sports

17. Camps & Excursions

18. Advance Program

19. Thank You. Any questions?