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LEARNING

Learning Culture

Iluka Public School is a larger small school with 131 students living in an identified low socio economic community. This year the school was reclassified as a P1 non teaching principal school. All teaching staff who live within the tight school community, respectfully understand and know the students, parents and carers from K-6 individually. Recently, a large majority of those students confirmed this alliance in the Tell Them From Me survey. Students told us that they felt supported in the positive, safe and secure school learning environment. This positive relationship enables teachers to be able to provide good conditions for producing high quality lessons. The school is also able to deliver on the learning priorities (school plan) and also enables students to actively engage on achieving learning outcomes. This year, staff collaboratively revised its School Wellbeing Policy which outlined explicit specific behaviour expectations. Under the umbrella of wellbeing, staff also produced the Student Recoginition Policy. The policy outlined proactive approaches to encourage good behaviour and good bookwork at school. This policy is used consistently to celebrate student success on our formal whole school assemblies, whilst also providing support for inappropriate behaviour (video). This year, 20% of the students have received special Principal Awards, recorded using the Sentral system. Sentral has also allowed IPS to monitor attendance, record incidents, communicate internally and to produce semester reports and Personalised Learning Plans. During weekly staff meetings, teachers discuss  a range of issues from a variety of sources; including NAPLAN and internal data.  Their professional teaching judgement is utilised to discuss student related issues and incidents, be it classroom or playground related. Staff strongly support all students to ensure their social, academic and emotional needs are considered. Staff work closely with the LaST team to ensure that the students educational needs are monitored. This also includes a social skills program organised for the Year 1 students.

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