Warringa Park School
Warringa Park School’s vision of an ‘excellent education for every student’ has been integral in building an inclusive learning culture and a caring community for its students.
Every learning space at the school is differentiated and personalised, and strength-based instruction is delivered flexibly, with technology readily available to engage students in their learning. Working closely with a range of National Disability Insurance Scheme providers, the school’s leadership team has initiated multiple events where families are connecting to services and learning.
Partnerships with Victoria University, Foundation House, and 2 mainstream schools have together provided adapted physical education lessons to students with additional needs, facilitated afterschool activities and social support for refugee students and their families, and provided access to electives and hands-on learning for their students.
Ensuring families have wrap-around support, Warringa Park’s collaborative partnerships with community are resulting in greater opportunities for all their students to access the care, support, and education they need to thrive at school.
Riverwalk Primary School
A newly-established supported inclusion school, Riverwalk Primary School is designed to support a higher number of students with disability than a mainstream school.
Delivering inclusive education with an informed and collaborative approach to every child, the school treats each student as a unique individual.
Establishing a school culture where students and families are key stakeholders in a student support-focused consultation process, the school’s Learning and Wellbeing Team is changing the way students and their families are engaging with education. Determining each student’s short and long-term educational goals as an extended group, appropriate adjustments and supports are explored to best support a student’s specific learning and wellbeing needs.
The Learning and Wellbeing team has been instrumental in implementing the new Disability Inclusion reforms. Carefully evaluating each student’s Individual Education Plan within this collaborative student support-group structure, they are building and sharing professional knowledge and increasing community understanding of Disability Inclusion.
Bentleigh West Primary School
At Bentleigh West Primary School, students are encouraged, celebrated, and empowered by their differences. Inclusive practices are embedded in the school’s culture, with strong systems and structures in place to support the team around the learner.
A strong focus on Universal Design for Learning combined with the adoption of a whole-school approach to implementing the Response To Intervention model, has created a systemic transformation at the school. In combining evidence-based practices and policies with an emphasis on student wellbeing, the school is experiencing strong growth in student achievement.
The school also participates as a Disability Inclusion lighthouse school and has been instrumental in supporting local and regional schools to successfully implement recent system-wide reforms.
Described as a school that goes ‘above and beyond’ to support students with disability, Bentleigh West Primary School’s openness to new initiatives and system-wide collaboration is supporting outstanding outcomes for their students.
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