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Values Week

In Week 5, we celebrate Values Week. Our students strive to display our values (Learning, Independence, Safety, Respect, Responsibility) everyday by displaying the employability skills (Communication, Team Work/Collaboration, Problem-solving, Initiative and Enterprise, Planning and Organising, Self-Awareness & Management, Learning, Technology). Our students took part in volunteering activities around the school in memory of Russ Jackson. In 1989 our school was renamed Jackson School to honour the work done by Russ Jackson. Russel was a volunteer at Jackson for over 20 years; he was gardener/handyman, caretaker and School Council President. One of his main initiatives was setting up the gardening program.

This year, as part of the School-wide Position Behaviour Support (SWPBS/PBIS) program, we have recently redefined our behaviour expectations. These are still focused around our three values of safety, respect and responsibility.

Over the last four years we have added additional learner characteristics which we teach our students to become a Jackson Learner. These eight Employability Skills will enable all of our students to be contributing members of the wider community. Each term we focus on one characteristic/skills of learning and independence as a throughline of our Inquiry units. 

Please see above our employability skills posters to represent these learner characteristics. We will publish these in Term 4 in readiness for Values Week in Week 5. In Values Week, students will collect stickers for the 8 employability skills in a Jackson Passport. To reduce visual distractions and reduce cognitive load for our learners, there is no expectation these are all displayed in classrooms. However, you may wish to display the two we will focus this term.