HIGHLIGHTS

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

From the Principal

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends

 

Brighton Secondary College strives to help all students attain personal excellence. To assist and promote this, from 2020, the school is introducing a new component to the curriculum called the Personal Excellence Program (PEP). Through this whole school program, students will have the opportunity to develop skills to improve academic performance, build respectful relationships, and consider pathways after schooling. The one lesson per week program will be delivered across each year level so that content is targeted and relevant.

 

Each weekly lesson will focus and develop each of the program’s goals which are:

  • to improve student wellbeing.
  • to improve student engagement through developing social inclusion.
  • to develop student pathways so that all students have meaningful plans for post school destinations.
  • to improve all students’ capacity to achieve by explicitly teaching age-relevant study and organisational habits.

The pillars of PEP are:

1.            Social and Emotional Learning

2.            Careers and Pathways

3.            Academic Excellence

 

The program aimed to develop a shared understanding between students and teachers about the college’s educational philosophy regarding the Attitudes to and Processes of learning, so that students are truly reflective, resourceful, resilient and respectful.

 

Each weekly lesson has learning intentions that reflect the overarching goals of the program and build a sequential approach to matters relating to everyday school life and beyond.

 

The Personal and Social capability curriculum will be reported on through the PEP and will appear on the end of semester report. The Personal and Social Capability curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: Self-Awareness and Management and Social Awareness and Management. Also, the mandatory, state-wide, Respectful Relationships curriculum has been integrated into the PEP curriculum.

 

The PEP content which will be covered in in each of the 3 pillars will be Year level specific.

This is an exciting undertaking which has been in development at the school for the past two years, and I wish it every success.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

Richard Minack

Principal