Successful Students
At Shenton College, each and every student is welcomed, encouraged, and celebrated and their uniqueness is recognised and valued. We understand the foundation for encouraging successful students is a strong sense of belonging and connectedness to the school values. Success is not a fixed benchmark, but a demonstrated commitment to striving for your personal best.
We believe that every member of our community has an integral role to play in supporting our students to:
- Build empathy, resilience and self-efficacy
- Develop the skills to self-regulate
- Know and care about themselves
- Understand their responsibility to positively influence their communities
- Seek out opportunities for social, emotional and academic growth
- Be reflective on their progress.
Strategies & Milestones
Deepen the culture of reflection on individual learning progress within the full range of diversity across our student cohort
Milestones
- our students, across all developmental phases
- Building a culture of productive conversations – peer to peer, teacher with student, and parent with student
- Ensure that feedback processes are constructive, with clear direction on improvement and growth
- Develop student understanding of their own agency in the learning process
Promote the Act/Belong/Commit strategic focus of the school
Milestones
- Student Support Strategic Plan formalised and identified national/state level mental health and wellbeing initiatives and frameworks mapped across school planning
- Student Support Strategic Plan embedded across all key stakeholders who hold a role in building student empathy, resilience and efficacy
- Appropriate PL identified and engaged in by key Student Support staff, Year Leaders and educational leaders in the College
- Ongoing review of the 7-12 Mentor Program to ensure it addresses community need and remains contemporary and relevant
- Implementation of a Parent Support Speakers program to build parental understanding and skills in supporting adolescent development
Encourage active student citizenship, community engagement and dual cultural leadership
Milestones
- Age-appropriate opportunities identified for citizenship and service-learning opportunities across the school
- Establishment of coordinated cross-year group mentoring opportunities for student peers
- Extension of the student club culture into the Senior School, with developmentally appropriate adaptations
- Establishment of Girls in Leadership and Boys in Leadership strategies to build self-awareness of student leadership potential
- Establishment of a Dual Cultural Leadership group to develop students’ cultural responsiveness and understanding
Strategically support the full range of students to engage in a broad selection of co-curricular opportunities
Milestones
- Completed review of existing opportunities and analysis of demographics of participants to inform areas for development
- Identification of underrepresented groups within our community
- Targeted promotion of and recruitment for new opportunities, considering those identified underrepresented groups
Strengthen the strategic approach to increasing student regular attendance
Milestones
- Improved analysis of regular attendance data
- Identification and intervention strategies developed for at-risk students (those with regular attendance below 90%)
Renew course counselling and career development processes to ensure successful pathways, support student wellbeing and independence, and prepare students for a life of contribution beyond school
Milestones
- Audit of current career development mapped across the years
- Whole school career development plan Y7-12
- Continued PL for course counsellors to ensure contemporary knowledge and understandings of system initiatives
Develop and embed a process for recording, recognising and celebrating student contributions to the wider school culture and community
Milestones
- Formulate Student Learner profiles to capture student success, learning and contribution beyond the classroom, particularly where students have exemplified the values of the College
- Identify and develop a digital medium to micro-credential community engagement, leadership and commitment to the school values