School Improvement Team

About the School Improvement Team

On Wednesday the 22nd of February, the 2022 School Improvement Team, also known as SIT, held their first meeting of the year. The School Improvement Team is a mix of students, teachers and staff as well as the principal team. The School Improvement Team is responsible for developing, overseeing and evaluating the effectiveness and the impact of the Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) for Improving Student Outcomes.

For our first meeting of the year, the SIT got to know each other and learnt the purpose and the role SIT holds in our school community. We learnt how SIT meetings run and the positions we can take up within the SIT team, for example, Report to School Community. We learnt about our new School Strategic Plan (SSP) and our AIP as well as how they will guide our meetings for the school year.

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Sarah Coates and Abbey McDonald (Student Representatives)

Report to the School Community

On Tuesday 15th of March, the School Improvement Team gathered to meet with the Positive Climate Leaders who presented their action plan for ‘Student Attendance Improvement’. We discussed reasons why it is important to tackle attendance for students in the early years and how it builds a foundation for life beyond high school while setting up pillars of achievements within high school. We discussed how Teachers plan lessons to engage students and make every minute valuable, therefore attending the full class is crucial for academic achievements. 

We gathered into groups and brainstormed goals and their outcomes and how we as a school can help achieve these goals in every aspect within the community: parents, students and teachers. The Positive Climate Leaders also put forward statistics and data to give an insight into attendance rates and why it's crucial to tackle attendance. Some ideas we contributed to the Action Plan were; 

-  to ensure that promotional attendance materials are placed in classrooms and referred to them, 

-  Attendance awards and acknowledgement to students who display responsibility regarding their attendance. 

We also discussed how Families need to be personally invited to further encourage healthy attendance rates. Additionally, we came up with the idea to make reports of data for reasons of absence that can be reviewed by parents so they can investigate and have an insight. 

During our meeting, we brought up the notion of how important it is to not sugarcoat the seriousness regarding absence as it truly impacts the student and their education. Furthermore, we concluded it would be beneficial for all Year Level Coordinators to set up informational assemblies where expectations are set out while also acknowledging students' responsibilities regarding attendance for a bright future in and after high school.

Melina Tahmasvand  (Student Representative)  & Gary Rule (Principal Team Representative)