• Year Level co-ordinators will be responsible for the students in their levels.

We hope to create an environment that is seen to be caring and where teaching and learning is maximised for all students.

We recognise these basic student needs:

• the basic physiological needs;
• the need for safety and security which is met by being in a suitable, predictable, orderly and non-threatening environment;
• the need to belong and to receive acceptance and approval from others;
• the need for self esteem and to experience a sense of personal worth;
• the need to know and understand one’s environment;
• the need to develop one’s own identity.

The College has a Welfare Committee consisting of:

• Assistant Principal
• House Co-ordinators
• Youth Education & Support Worker
• School Nurse

The Welfare Committee will support the staff in carrying out their welfare functions, assess the welfare needs of the school, engage in forward planning and ensure that staff, expertise and resources are made available to all students.

The Committee will allow other members of staff to make a significant contribution to the student welfare program.

The Welfare Committee will:

a) involve the staff body in activities designed to foster the well-being of students;

b) include all support staff in a coordinated approach to student welfare.

c) establish effective communication processes with administration;

d) establish effective communication processes with any relevant school council sub-committees

e) identify students’ needs and formulate recommendations to the curriculum policy-making body

Personnel, organisations and structures available to support student welfare include:

• Home Group teachers
• Year level assemblies
• Year level coordinators
• Home groups
• Integration Aides
• Careers teacher
• First Aid
• SIA
• Coordinators of special programs eg Literacy, Talented Students, Transition programs
• Faculty Coordinators
• Classroom teachers
• Principal
• Assistant Principal
• Youth Education & Support Worker
• School Nurse

Programs to support students include:

• Skills program
• Lunchtime activities
• Remedial programs
• School camps and excursions
• Pastoral Care Programs eg. You Can Do It, Study Skills etc.

Particular Curriculum directions include:

• Personal Development units
• Skills for Adolescence

Specific Policies related to student welfare include:

• Harassment Policy
• EO Policy
• Mandatory Reporting Policy
• Response to critical incidents, such as a death in the school community

Practices and Procedures indicating concern for student welfare.

• Discipline Policies - In class procedures

- Out of class procedures

• Report writing
• Personal interactions
• Parent interviews
• Attendance monitoring
• Referral to appropriate sources of assistance

A program budget will be prepared for Student Welfare to ensure adequate resourcing of programs and to provide emergency funding for homeless students.

Home Groups and Skills Sessions

It is important that students at all levels receive adequate pastoral care.

Our Home Group system hopes to assist in providing this.

Home groups will be used for:

• counselling
• parent contact
• course selection
• monitoring attendance
• discipline referrals
• developing life skills
• skills program