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In 2019, the School released the Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School Strategic Plan 2019 - 2024 in which we identified three key pillars that guide us as we build upon the excellence that our school is already well known for; Quality Learning and Teaching, Quality Pastoral Care and Connected Community. Over the past three years, much work has taken place across all three pillars and, despite COVID-19, significant developments have taken place in the first two pillars.
Our Model for Student Success (see Figure 1) was developed in 2019 with our primary goal of developing students who can thrive in a changing world. Over the past three years, we have used specific, high-impact evidence-based strategies to develop each student.
For example, a strong focus has been placed on students’ understanding the value and importance of constructive and specific Learning Behaviours that, when adopted, will empower them to improve their academic outcomes.
These Learning Behaviours are now reported to parents through the twice-yearly reports. Significant work has also been undertaken over the past three years on curriculum review and renewal.
Year 9 was a particular focus year level in 2019 and 2020, to consider how the range of elective subjects engaged students, met their needs and whether they also met the School’s criteria of being real-world connected and crossdisciplinary wherever possible.
Students have been delighted with the introduction of the exciting elective subjects including Criminal Investigations, Digital Marketing and Design, Be an Architect, Be Your Own Boss, Mechanical Engineering, Creative Café, The Making of an Athlete and All the World’s A Stage.
These subjects have not only engaged the students with learning that is real-life contextualised, it has also opened the students’ minds to different career paths and aspirations for their future.
There is nothing more important in our school than the wellbeing of our students and staff as we know that it is the presence of wellbeing that is the precursor to success in learning and professional performance. Following the review of middle and senior leadership roles in the School in 2019, I was delighted to create a new role that champions and leads the wellbeing strategies and programs for our students in the School.
Brett Borbely joined the School in January 2021 as our inaugural Director of Student Wellbeing and she has already implemented a range of wonderful innovations in the care of our students. Most notably she and her team have developed a comprehensive wellbeing program inclusive of important topics such as Consent Education, Cyber Safety and Navigating Friendships.
The Wellbeing Program will be supplemented this year with a renewed focus on providing all students in the Senior School with both leadership and service opportunities that changes each year as is age and stage appropriate.
All of the important and exciting renewal work that has taken place in recent years and is currently being worked on this year, has been planned carefully to ensure the School continues to serve the needs of our students and school community for many generations to come.
The School is intentional about being progressive, innovative and brave in its decision-making. We have a clear focus to remain the leading school in the north of Melbourne, as well as being broadly known as the School where the wellbeing and personal development of our students is as important as is reaching beyond their academic potential.
Dr Deborah Priest
Principal
