we can do the tractor in a minute you can do the cast my name is David giblin
I'm a classroom teacher here at Wrigley college at big war camps Greater Western
Sydney welcome everyone to the 2013 bid war most practice today is all about
building positive relationships good teaching is about cultivating
relationships maintaining those sorts of relationships and basically seeing the
success on the students and seeing the pride in parents faces when those
students actually achieve fire on days like like this first of all it's a very
informal event you get to interact with parents you get to interact with
students at that very informal level Asia well first of all I'm a trained
science teacher one of the resources that was available at this particular
school was a school farm agriculture is now very much a fixed part of the
curriculum we actually have growing numbers of students getting involved
what we've actually got over on the display there is is the display that we
set up at Penrice show for those parents who couldn't get over to the show and of
course those skills are on display for the parents over at the breakfast as
well so the display is actually over there yes I've got third place in it
this year we always raise a cow this year we've had something like fifty
eight students pick egg it's been absolutely phenomenal remove I get a
whole heap of information that i can then take back into the classroom and i
can use that information to help build that relationship with the student and i
can use that information to help build that relationship with the parents yes
that's good classic example today was young Stephanie yeah I didn't actually
know that stephanie was a fairly good soccer player and played on weekends so
there's a bit of additional knowledge that I've actually development about my
student and that will certainly help me within the classroom with a particular
sphere can you see how this is actually tying in with the work we're actually
doing in terms of maintaining relationships like any relationship you
have to work out of you in order to to keep again actually produce a rice and
rice grain that actually has keratin fair bit of effort ensuring that parents
are kept informed of where their child is up to vitamin
a vitamin A absolutely correct it's regular meetings it's regular phone
contact it all goes to to boosting my relationship which is the thing off my
teachers actually GM there are various teams that are established within the
school in order to to maintain that relationship did you want to bring out
who you were yeah look I was particularly impressed with Mike he was
actually there yesterday he was running the track we have a welfare term here
which identifies particular issues overall to ensure that you are basically
on top of where your students are at within the educational process and lucky
you know as as mighty reprisal early yeah some of the challenges he said so
is that a lot of challenges going through with these literacy and some
other subjects and its really noticing these interactions these practical
extractions are really starting to bring them in if we can get someone from yeah
probably yeah I'll make a phone call Holman and letting let mom and dad know
how well he did in both of its obviously when you're running a school farm
particularly if you've got animals one of the legal requirements is that the
animals are checked within a 24-hour period we've got about eight different
breed of chicken but we're actually experimenting with at the moment and
what I'm actually experimenting with at the moment is actually getting parents
in here as part of a community garden better that's connecting with you guys
as well it's great whoa look said oh man coming pastor saw it here for years now
and soon it come from just walk around with a shed on it now a couple of horses
and yeah and look it's great to see what you put in school but it's got to be
good for it's good for the kids getting involved in horticulture with potted
plants the parents are getting involved with the animals here
those parents are actually coming in and again it's all about a shared journey
glad to have you on board thank you