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| " Our whole school community
aims, through all our activities and structures, to assist
students, staff and other members of the community to experience
physical, spiritual, mental and emotional well-being." |
School Profile
Rokeby High School serves the residential areas of the river Derwent’s South Eastern Shores. All of the areas served by the school are dormitory suburbs with almost no industrial development around them. Our enrolments currently stand at around 300 students. Within the school’s catchment area there is considerable variation in socio-economic circumstances. This contributes to the often disparate nature of the community groups involved with the school. The school has an informed School Council and a Parent’s and Friends Association. It also has a school prefect board and holds active student forums on all of the issues surrounding the school.
Getting Started
Rokeby High began its journey with an awareness raising session involving the staff community. We were keen to discover the perceived practice of health promotion currently occurring within the school and to discern which areas required our attention over our priority years. This was ascertained via an audit which encapsulated the view of staff, students, parents and the wider community. Our aim was to establish whole school ownership of health promotion. Through this we established our Vision and set down some specific goals we would address over the ensuing years.
Planning
Rokeby established a planning committee comprising of staff who would then liaise with other planning and management bodies within the school community and beyond. The strategies and activities for each of our goals was and continues to be co-ordinated by one committee member who then reports back to the whole group. Administrative planning included developing and publishing and Action Plan for each of the goals. Our Action Plan sets out our current situation, strategies for achieving the goal, support required, monitoring and time frame for establishment. Other administrative planning involved including Health Promotion into our School Plan, Site Agreement and Partnership Agreement.
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Strategies
Development of a Grade 7 and 8 Health Curriculum Planning Guide
Integrate the new HPE TCE Syllabus — trial school for new syllabus, 1999
Co-ordinate Health in all Learning Areas
How is this to be assessed?
Inform staff of Health resources available
Staff Stress management — PD, ongoing information
Recognising that empowering staff has flow on effects for all
Ongoing appreciation and recognition of staff
Meditation Group
Social Committee
Drama program to focus on hard-core issues concerning youth — the emphasis on awareness and solutions.
Continued emphasis on student forums and community ‘ownership’ of the school.
Parents Helping Young Readers
Breakfast Program
Room and Corridor Ownership — murals, displays, staff teaching generally in the one room.
Paint the School Committee
Improved outdoor/eating areas for students and staff
Adopt a Patch Program — local environment appreciation/ownership
Trailed a student run cafeteria/common room.
Key Results
We discovered that once health promotion entered into the consciousness of staff, students and the wider community, there developed an almost self-perpetuating and increasing momentum towards realising our goals. It was important that health promotion became integrated into the culture of the school and we understood that this took time. Acknowledging that it is a gradual process was important to our planning and review of our outcomes.
Through this process we have discovered, certainly for our school, that we need to establish wider community links and foster the involvement already underway of community helpers to the school.
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