Principal's Report

Welcome back to school for 2024.  I would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new students and their families, in particular our Year 7 students. 

Our strategic priorities this year are the following: 

Goal 1:  Improve all students’ achievement and learning growth

• Build all teachers’ capability to use highly effective teaching strategies within the school’s instructional model
• Build all teachers’ capacity to deliver teaching and learning matched to students’ point of need learning
• Develop and implement systematic processes for observation, feedback and development to ensure high quality teacher practice in classrooms.

Goal 2: Optimise all students’ wellbeing and engagement in learning

• Strengthen whole school strategies that promote inclusion, attendance, participation and readiness to learn for all students.
• Strengthen teachers’ capability to activate students’ engagement and agency in learning.

New Staff

This year we welcomed the following new staff members to our team:

• Louis Turner (Assistant Principal)
• Mandy Goldsworthy (Music/Visual Arts)
• Allira Wilson (Drama/English/Hums)
• Anthony Hitchman (English/Hums)
• Penny Marangos (English/Hums)
• Natalia Mazza (Maths/PE)

Leadership Team

Child Safe Standards:   Our commitment to child safety 

Greensborough College is committed to child safety.  As a community, we want children and young people to be safe, happy and empowered. We support and respect all children and young people, as well as our staff and volunteers.  We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children and young people. There is zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently with our robust policies and procedures. We meet our legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety, which we follow rigorously.

You will find the following policies on our website, http://greensc.vic.edu.au/ and I encourage parents/carers to become familiar with them.

• Child Safety Policy
• Child Safety Code of Conduct Policy
• Child Safety Responding and Reporting Obligations
• Duty of Care Policy
• Visitors Policy
• Visitors Policy
• Bullying Prevention Policy
• Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy

We ask families to support the College and our child safety practices by doing the following:

1. When visiting the College, all parents, carers and visitors to the College are required to report to Administration (Nepean Street entry) and to sign in and out. The Visitors Policy explains this procedure further. 
2. Whendropping off students, parents/carers are required to do this outside the school grounds on the street kerb taking notice of the no standing signs. The car park at the school is for Staff Only.  The car park at the Sports Precinct is for Staff and Visitor during the school day.

Attendance

A key priority for the College is to improve the attendance rate of all students across all year levels. High levels of attendance at school equates to greater positive outcomes for students and adults in life.  The slides below highlight the importance of daily attendance and that absence from school should only be for illness.

Pauline Barker

Principal