Principal, Mount Hawthorn Primary School. Passionate about learning, school improvement and public education. Dad to Mr 13 & Miss 11.
Perth, Western Australia
Joined August 2012
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Mount Hawthorn Primary School legends with Emeritus Professor David Kilpatrick at today's wonderful @SOTLAus event at @EdithCowanUni.
Why? Because they want to implement evidence-based reading instruction to best support our students! 🙌🤓
Joining 250 dedicated educators on a Saturday at @EdithCowanUni to hear from Emiritus Professor David Kilpatrick on effective reading instruction 📚🤓👊
Thank you @SOTLAus for facilitating this powerful professional learning 🙌
Overdue, but very welcome 🙌
Thank you @JasonClareMP
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These 3 Pre-primary legends came and visited today with some amazing independent sentences about Makuru 🤩
Then, they proved how clever they were and aced the impromptu spelling test I gave them! 🙌
Evidence-based teaching matters 👊👩🏫
Leon Wilson retweeted
Professor @AJOWhitehouse has taken home the 2023 Western Australian of the Year Award, Professions category. Congratulations Prof Whitehouse on a remarkable achievement!
#WAOTYA #WAOTYA2023 @clinikids_au @uwanews – at Perth, Western Australia
ALT Crown ballroom filled with purples lights and a stage, where the screen says "HBF, Professor Andrew Whitehouse, Professions Award Winner"
Mount Hawthorn PS staff were fortunate to hear from Prof @AJOWhitehouse and Sarah Pillar from @telethonkids at our school development day.
Practical, factual info to help us meet the needs of our neurodiverse students, including those with Autism 👊
"It was kind of crazy how low and high you could go with your voices!" 🎶
"The piano guy was awesome!" 🎹
"My favourite character was the prince and his alter ego as the Italian singing teacher." 🇮🇹🤴
Student reflections on the wonderful Freeze Frame Opera incursion 😃👏🎭
A full house for Room 38's assembly this morning. Congratulations Year 4 students, Mrs Keers and Signora Monisse! 💃🎬🙌
Today Mount Hawthorn PS hosted teachers from 7 @WA_Edu_News schools (from 4 regions!) for @DrLSHammond's wonderful Let's Decode professional learning 🏫🎓
Why? Because every child deserves effective reading instruction every day 📖 💥
Outstanding news! Such a win for education in WA 🙌
Congratulations, @educationlisa ☺️
Thrilled to continue as DG of DoE WA.
I share the commitment of all who work in public education; to provide every student with the opportunity for learning, high quality education & pathways for success. Together we’ve achieved so much, lots more still to do! @WA_Edu_News
Huge day at our annual faction swimming carnival! 🏊♂️🏊♀️🏊
Thank you to @HBFStadium for hosting us, and to our amazing Phys-eders Mrs Kenny and Mrs Putt for making it all happen 🙌🏽
Instructional coaching matters... A lot! 👩🏫🎓
Thanks @Josh_CPD and @PepsMccrea
Next up at #sollaperth Josh Goodrich, CEO & Peps Mccrea, Director of Education @Steplab_co @Josh_CPD @PepsMccrea
A lovely balmy #Perth evening at the @KnowledgeScty to celebrate the start of the Science of Learning Leadership Accelerator conference 🙌🏽🥂
See you tomorrow, everyone ☺️
#SOLLA
100 teachers and EAs from Mount Hawthorn PS and North Cottesloe PS engaging in Research to Impact from @ShapingmindsAus. Great buzz in the room 🙌🏽😊
Standing on the shoulders of giants ✅
How good are these little Pre-primary superstars... Using their segmenting skills to write simple sentences 🙌🏽🤩
We all know there's more to school than just NAPLAN results, but...
Whole school approaches that privilege evidence-based instruction are the reason schools appear on lists like this ✅
Congratulations to all involved at these fantastic schools 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾
