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Kate Jolly Year 6 Team Leader Kate Jolly grew up in the small coastal town of Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. With a degree in Junior Primary/ Primary Education from University of South Australia, Kate has been focusing on making learning visible in order to deepen students’ conceptual understandings and to ensure students have opportunities to develop the skills and dispositions required to pursue their own inquiries.
team to plan future learning, watching students play during recess yard duty and meeting with the Primary Leadership Team.
Before starting her professional career as a teacher, Kate worked in banking for four years at Adelaide Bank. She took her first teaching job at Redeemer Lutheran School in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, where she spent five and half years working with students from Reception through to Year 7.
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Outside of work, Kate can be found hiking and running around Hong Kong. She also has recently started playing netball for the Black Pearls (Discovery Bay Pirates). Kate and her fiancé Sam are scheduled to be married in Australia at the end of 2015.
Kate is currently in her second year at DC as the Year 6 Team Leader. On a typical day at DC, Kate’s routine involves teaching Language, Mathematics, and Unit of Inquiry to 30 students in Year 6, meeting with her SHI JIE MAGAZINE / AUTUMN 2015
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