SWPBS/Attendance Update

Assistant Principal

Xavier McLaurin

At WPSC, our Ready to Learn Plans were created for students by students. Implemented in 2023, our student CARE Captains visited Monterey Secondary College (2022 VEEA School Improvement Winner) to speak to their School Captains about their approach to implementing a safe and orderly learning environment. From this visit, our students chose to bring back to Western Port Secondary College, student Ready to Learn Plans based on the Berry Street Education Model of trauma informed education (a leading approach in education in Australia today).

Ready to learn plans work with the existing School Wide Positive Behaviour Support framework as a set of strategies students and staff can use to help students engage in learning or self-manage problem behaviours. At the college, we are proud to say that every student has access to a Ready to Learn Plan. These plans enable a student to regulate their learning and wellbeing in selecting the following strategies:

In class strategies (5min):

• Head on desk
• Quiet Reading
• Quiet Drawing

 External to class strategies (5min)

• Go for a walk
• Get a drink
• Sit outside the classroom
• Shoot hoops on the Dream Courts

Over the holidays, speak to your child on how they use the Ready to Learn Plans and how it supports them to maximise their learning in the classroom.

Kind Regards,

Xavier McLaurin

Assistant Principal

Kara Dunstan

Same-day notification of unexplained student absences 

Our school will text you as soon as practicable on the day if a student is not at school and you haven’t notified the school as to why. If you are notified by the school that your student is away without a reason, please contact us as soon as possible by calling (03 5979 1577) or emailing (western.port.sc@education.vic.gov.au) to let us know where your student is. If we cannot reach you because we don’t have your correct contact details (i.e.: message notification fail, disconnected number), then we will make contact with any emergency contact/s nominated on your students’ file held by the school, where possible, on the same day of the unexplained absence. 

Please remember it is your responsibility to contact us to provide an explanation for your students' absence from school, and where possible, please inform us in advance of upcoming absences. 

For further information on the processes and procedures our school uses to record, monitor and follow-up student attendance and absence please read our Attendance Policy located on our school website. 

Do we have your most up to date contact details?   

If not, please email the school on western.port.sc@education.vic.gov.au we can update our records. Please include parent/carers’ name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the school if any of these details or your circumstances change.