Celebrating with our Students at Assembly

Each week at the Junior College Assembly, we present awards to students to celebrate their growth across the many varied areas of the curriculum. This year we have moved from a combination of ‘You Can Do It’ awards and ‘Star of the Week’ awards to one award focussing on values / character strengths and social-emotional skills for success, relationships and wellbeing.

The new award is closely linked to the lessons taught weekly in the new Program Achieve Curriculum. Key features of the program include:

• It’s used worldwide – during the past 25 years, over 1,000,000 students of all ages have participated in the program.
• Student benefits – when successfully implemented, students become resilient, confident, organised, persistent and get along better. As a result, their motivation, achievement and wellbeing improve.
• Australian Curriculum – aligned to the Personal and Social Capabilities learning framework of the Australian National Curriculum (ACARA).
• Recognised – by the Australian Government’s Kids Matter Mental Health and Wellbeing initiative as a best practice program.

We look forward to celebrating together at Assembly.

Mrs Sue Zweck, Head of Teaching and Learning K-5