GROWTH: Personal and Social Capability Programme
GROWTH is our personal programme for disengaged students that focuses on the growth of social skills, practical life education, and the explicit teaching of values and expectations of school and the workplace. We recognise that school must be more than just a place of instruction.
The programme is led by a teacher who has strong relationships with the students, teaching essential social, emotional, and curriculum skills in a flexible, kinaesthetic, and experiential learning environment. A non-punitive approach to behaviour management is employed to educate rather than dictate expectations and rules.
Student Support Team
Longreach State High School has a range of members of staff to support our students socially, emotionally, and academically.
Head of Student Services
- lead student services team to promote an inclusive, positive school culture
- lead implementation of Student Engagement and Wellbeing Framework
- lead implementation of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)
- monitor student attendance and manage attendance support strategies
- lead school-wide acknowledgement of positive behaviours.
Deputy Principal
- lead curriculum, pedagogy, and student outcomes
- lead the school’s pedagogical practices for student engagement in learning
- promote and monitor student participation in learning
- assess and implement supports for students with additional requirements for learning
- provide ongoing academic support to students and parents.
Year-Level Coordinators
- monitor attendance, behaviour and academic data and provide individual support
- provide individual social and emotional support
- coordinate student wellbeing programmes
- promote positive interactions and relationships within the school community.
Head of Inclusion
- provide a comprehensive student support programme within the school environment
- link students with required specialist services outside the school
- provide individual education pathways for students.
Guidance Officer
- provide a comprehensive student support programme within the school environment offering counselling with students on a one-on-one basis or in a group setting
- assist students with specific difficulties, acting as a mediator or providing information on other life skills
- liaise with parents, teachers, or other external health providers as needed as part of the counselling process.
Youth Support Coordinator
- support students to achieve satisfactory learning outcomes
- identify barriers to young people achieving outcomes (including difficulties at school or home) and provide support and referral to appropriate support services
- develop and foster relationships between the school and students’ families to assist at-risk students to remain engaged with education or training
- inform and educate parents, community members and students on relevant issues that may be impacting student engagement.
Social Worker
- provide individual and, at times, group support to students to assist their engagement with education and training
- support students to overcome barriers to education such as
- attendance at school
- drug and alcohol support needs
- relationships/social skills
- conflict with family/peers/teachers
- social/emotional/physical wellbeing.
Community Liaison Officer
- assist students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills that support learning, positive behaviour and constructive social relationships
- act as a role model for students and assists in the development of supportive relationships for, with, and among students
- work with school-based support staff and community-based youth organisations and networks to support students
- provide individual and group support to students to assist their engagement with education and training.