The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter STUDENT AGENCY
STUDENT AGENCY IN ACTION Secondary students contributing to the future of learning and engagement at The Lakes.
The Secondary Agency and Engagement team would like to highlight some of the outstanding work that our student leaders have done this Term in the area of student voice. All of our students on the Secondary Campus completed the annual Attitudes to School survey earlier this year. This year ’ s results were quite pleasing in some areas like Effort & High Expectations for Success, this reinforced a lot of the work we have been doing as a College over the year, however we saw a dip in our results in some other areas like Sense of Connectedness. So, with an open mind and eager to get some further feedback, we asked our Student Leaders to dig a little deeper into these results and find out a bit more about what we have been doing well and where we can improve in the eyes of our students. The Student Leaders quickly set to work by collecting data through online discovery interviews where students were asked specific questions related to their year level and their Attitudes to School Survey results. They then gave up their time to sit together with the Student Agency and Engagement Team to interpret the responses and identify some key findings for each year level, this process was really interesting as it highlighted the different attitudes and priorities of students in different year levels.
The Student Leaders then presented their findings to the entire Secondary staff at a staff meeting in late August. They are to be commended for how and what they presented. Their positive feedback and their constructive criticism was incredibly valuable and sparked a number of deep conversations about our curriculum, our learning programs, our policies and procedures and our school grounds. A range of key points came up that our teachers and leadership team have taken on board, among them were the value of timely feedback, the importance of positive student - teacher relationships, rewarding positive effort and building school pride through events and programs, our recent Teacher vs. Student basketball competition and RUOK Day events have proved extremely popular. The Secondary Agency & Engagement Team look forward to inviting more of our students into meetings in Term 4 and into next year. Staff feedback is that these meetings have been incredibly productive and thought provoking, and our students love the fact they have a forum to be heard and for actions to come out of their feedback.
Mr Taylor & Mrs Greaves Secondary Agency & Engagement Leaders
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