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Victor Harbor High School 

Learner Wellbeing Inquiry 2007

 

Victor Harbor High School 

School Context  
Total number of students 00690  
Index of disadvantage 005  
School Card holders - 24%

Indigenous students 0016  
NESB students - 10  

Learner Wellbeing Inquiry Question 

Has the introduction of Student mentoring impacted on students view of themselves, in particular on their relationship with teachers?

 

VHHS Context  
 

Home Group (2005) 
 
 

Mentoring Time 2007 
 

10 minutes at the beginning of each day  
Mark the role  
Read daily notices  
Check diaries  
In a group that frequently did nothing else together for the remainder of the day  
20 minutes at the end of recess every day  
Notices read during lesson 1  
Organized into Pathways or MS sub school group spending chunks of lesson time together  
Mentoring teachers deliver Mentoring program  

                                           

What do we aim to achieve during Mentoring time? 

Delivery of our Wellbeing Program which includes: Program Achieve Futures Connect Other Wellbeing programs that are relevant at specific time (e.g.: Schoolies seminars prior to Schoolies week).  
Positive Relationships with teachers Mentoring Teachers encouraged to support students in areas other than those directly related to subject content Mentoring Teachers the first contact for students in matters relating to their personal wellbeing Mentoring teachers encouraged to build positive relationships based around an interest in the individual student.  

 

I have a teacher who cares about me

 

At school time is spent discussing the importance of people being respectful, honest, fair, caring, responsible and good citizen 

 

Most of my teachers help me believe I can be successful 

 

Students feel that they have a say in classroom rules as well as a voice in the activities and events our school offers

 

I have at least one teacher who spends time talking with me about things other than my school work

 

Teachers remind students about the importance of doing their best in their school work

 

 

   
 

ACER Wellbeing Survey 2005/2007

Interviewed students- Adam Foot and 8.1  
Teacher presentation-Dave Mueller and

1HDM (all boys stage 1 Furniture Pathways) 

Summary of conversations had with other Mentoring Groups  
 
 

How did we make this general data relevant to mentoring time?

That our mentoring teachers are working hard to develop relationships with their students.  
That there is an overall improvement in student perceptions since 2005.  
That there are pockets of 00ssues00that we need to address.  

Conclusions from this data

An ongoing process00/font> Get back to the whole staff about our findings Wellbeing team to look at ways to address the issues evident in the data To keep talking with students about what caring looks like and what success means to them Training and development with whole staff around their role as Mentor Teachers Training and development with whole staff and the relationship between wellbeing and learning  
 

Where to next?

 

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Move away from Admin type activities

Focus on relationships

Pastoral care over the yrs has had the problem of time/ senior students not valuing anything not clearly relating to academics

Focus on research from LW Framework re link between wellbeing and learning

About resilience 

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ACER Survey 2005,2007

Focus on Wellbeing

All yr 8/9 students

At least 40% of yrs 10,11,12

Survey looks at achievement, getting long,resilience,social responsibility

For the purpose of this inquiry wanted to focus on student/teacher relationships 

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