Tarneit Rise Primary School
The Tarneit Rise Primary School community has grown rapidly in a short period of time.
Opening in 2018 with 209 children, they have nearly 1800 students enrolled today. The growing school community is diverse and multicultural, with 78% of children speaking a language other than English at home.
The Education Support Team of over 50 multiskilled professionals work to significantly reduce students’ barriers to learning. Delivering education support in 3 distinct professional learning communities (PLC): the Inclusion Aide PLC, Intervention PLC, and Wellbeing PLC, the team is supporting the achievement of individual students’ learning and wellbeing needs, both in the classroom and outside it.
Whether working with students with disability or additional needs, supporting literacy and language development or working with families and allied health practitioners to ensure the needs of students are met, the innovatively structured Education Support Team is helping all children to fully participate in school.
Mooroopna Park Primary School
Mooroopna Park Primary School’s Wellbeing Team is working with its wider community to improve outcomes for students and their families.
Implemented by a wellbeing coordinator, speech therapist and a chaplain, the team delivers an Oral Language Program and speech pathologist support, a fortnightly paediatric clinic, a Healthy Food Program, access to a play therapist, Chaplain support, and dental, vision, and hearing checks for all students.
With Community Hubs Australia, a Community Hub was established by the team during the recent floods, where families from the local area could come to collect food, toys, bedding, and clothes donated by the community.
Mooroopna Park’s inclusive health and wellbeing programs have seen profound improvement in attendance, behaviour, and learning outcomes. Working with the community in new ways, the Wellbeing Team is creating services, access, and opportunity for students and their families to fully engage with education.
Cranbourne Secondary College
Cranbourne Secondary College’s multidisciplinary Student Wellbeing Team is expanding and innovating programs to support a growing cohort of students with additional needs as learners.
Using a Multi-Tiered System of Supports model, the Wellbeing Team is addressing the needs and goals of the students with a rigorous adherence to best practice, process, and policy. The team of clinical practitioners draw from different therapeutic modalities while maintaining an evidence-based overview to know more accurately, the specific needs of all students.
Working adaptively to the individual and changing needs of their growing student cohort, the team’s practitioners largely work in a 1:1 capacity with young learners. Initiating improved self-referral processes for students, they are also helping their students to better understand their own wellbeing needs and to confidently seek the support they need.
Generating new responses to student need, the team’s outstanding professionalism is changing outcomes for some of the college’s most vulnerable students.
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