School Review – Update

This term, we have been undertaking our School Review process. I want to thank the large range of staff, countless student focus group sessions, and parent focus group session for all of your contributions to this process. Our final Review Day takes place on Tuesday, where we begin to plan out our next Strategic Plan based on all the information gathered. I look forward to sharing further information later this year.

2025 Planning

As part of the lead-up to the school review process and the work that the Principal Team has been doing this year, the school's Leadership structure for 2025 has been formalised. Early this term, a number of key leader positions were advertised and I am pleased to announce the school’s leadership structure and team members for 2025. The staff members includes a mix of existing leaders of the college, and some new staff to join the team in 2025.

Principal Team

Principal – Shaun Doherty

Business Manager – Cindy Craven

Assistant Principals – George Atrache, Todd Slater, Tommy Olden, Kathryn Henderson, Frances Italia, Stephania Johnson-Turner

Learning Specialists

Instructional Leader – Pedagogy / Literacy - Emerald Gatti
Instructional Leader – Pedagogy / Differentiation – Nicola Kingston
Instructional Leader – Pedagogy / High Impact Wellbeing Strategies – Laura Monk
Instructional Leader – Curriculum - Jo Bolding
Instructional Leader – Data and Assessment - Raf Kaplon
Instructional Leader – Academic Excellence and Extension - Hemani Kiran
Instructional Leader – SWPBS – Naomi Basile
Applied Learning / Engagement Learning Specialist - Liz McCormack
Numeracy Learning Specialist - Aaron Hernyak
English Domain Leader - Emma Williams
Maths Domain Leader - Ab Singh

Leading Teachers

Inclusion – De’Anne Weller
Learning Community Leader – Year 7 – Matthew Hodgson
Learning Community Leader – Year 8 – Stephanie Andjelkov
Learning Community Leader – Year 9 – Ben Verbi
Learning Community Leader – Year 10 – Jo Anketell
Learning Community Leader – Year 11 - Nicola Power
Learning Community Leader – Year 12 – Tania Miller
Acting Leading Teacher – Caitlin Cornaggia
Head of Wellbeing – Sarah Williams

Further to these appointments, we are well underway with our planning for 2025. This includes the subject selection processes for students. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in this process. While college students have a wide variety of subjects to choose from, elective subjects will only run if there are sufficient numbers as determined by the Principal Team and where a subject does not have sufficient numbers to run, students will be allocated into one of their reserve preferences. As we approach Rollover in Term 4, further information will be provided to students and families.

Curriculum Day

On Wednesday this week, all staff undertook some professional learning as part of the Curriculum Day. This learning was based on the work that we have been undertaking this year including our focus on School Wide Positive Behaviour, classroom routines and the implementation of our instructional model. This valuable time that was set aside for our staff has assisted with reflecting on our current implementation of a number of key things and how we further support the learning and calm and orderly learning environment for our students. Some reflections from the implementation of our classroom routines this term have shown positive feedback on the calm and settled nature of our classrooms. We have begun to gather some feedback from our student cohort on our routines implantation and look forward to doing more of this to embed the practices of classroom entry, exit and cue to start.

Musical Showcase

Thank you to Holly Timewell and the staff and students involved in the preparation for our Musical Showcase on the 30th and 31st of August. I have heard about the great excitement and work that has gone into this showcase and hope that we can get as many families to come along to the event - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1270406

Uniform Price List Update