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Year Co-ordinators – 2008
Year 8 Ms Cindy Mills, Mr Martin Frost
Year 9 Mr Paul Broszat, Ms Lisa Hendry
Year 10 Mrs Frantiska Brazier, Mrs Vicki Wockner
Year 11 Ms Jodie Davies, Mr Greg Bishop
Year 12 Ms Melissa Kitchiner, Mr James Elliot
The Year Co-ordinator
The Year Coordinator focuses on providing a safe and supportive environment for students. The Year Coordinator interacts with students, parents, teachers and the community to ensure the best educational outcomes for each student.
Major Responsibilities
The following are an indication of key behaviours and duties.
All Year Levels
- Leadership of the Form Teachers allocated to the Year Level
- Facilitating Form Teacher meetings
- Conducting Year Parades/Assemblies
- Enrolment process and interviews
- Communication with:
- Parents
- Administration team
- Support team
- Outside agencies
- Other staff
Items concerning each Year Level
- Events
- Behaviours
- Achievements
- Student protection issues
- Absences
- Other matters of concern
Student Welfare
- Monitoring of attendance, behaviour, work ethic and academic achievement
- Planning and facilitating a pastoral care program relevant to students in the year level, including year level days and camps
- Compilation and monitoring of assessment overviews
- Homework organisation for sick/suspended students
- Behaviour Management
Year 12
- Conducting the election process for School Captains, Prefects and House Captains
- Organising the Prefect Investiture
- Close liaison with the FEET First Coordinator in conducting the FEET First Commitment Ceremony
- Overseeing senior leadership activities, including involvement with the Year 8 Form classes
- Select leaders to represent the school at functions
- Planning and conducting the Formal
- Charitable events
- School dances
- Senior shirts
- Monitoring of the performance of school leaders
- Monitoring of the Driving to School Policy
- Advice to students regarding transition to work/further study
- An "adult" mentor as students grow up and their relationship with their teachers change
Year 11
- Fostering leadership ambitions and skills
- Leadership Camp
Transition Year
Year 10
- Pastoral care program, The Core of Life
- Tax file numbers
- Career guidance and planning
- Student Education and Training Plans (SETPs)
- Career Interest Inventories (liaising with the Guidance Officer)
- Subject selection
- Year level activities
The Middle School
Year 9
- Monitoring of the performance of the bursary winners
- Subject selection
- Year Level Day
Year 8
- Management of the Year 7-8 transition process
- Primary school visits to gain first hand knowledge of students
- Public relations visits to primary schools
- Organisation of Parent Information Night
- Year 7-8 Orientation Day
- Academic testing of students
- Creation of Form classes based on the results of academic testing and profiles from Year 7 interviews
- Build a team of Year 8 Form Teachers which will establish positive relationships with students
- Plan and implement a year long pastoral care program covering transition to high school, a Wednesday sports period, a RAP program and a Year Level Day
- Establish networks and partnerships between Year 8 Form Teachers, classroom and other teachers and the Administration Team
- Year 8 bursaries
- timelines
- distribution of information packages
- selection of successful candidates
- award ceremony
- publicity
- Year 8 Camp
- Assist with subject selection
- Communication to students and parents about Uniform, Bullying, truancy and the Responsible Thinking Process
- Ensuring the behaviour management policies are followed
- Monitoring of student levels, encouraging students to aspire to higher levels, rewarding those on level 1 & 2, designing and administering programs to improve the behaviour of those on lower levels
- Investigate behaviour management issues, including those detailed on "blue sheets"
- Following up bullying issues
- Facilitating mediations
- Case management of 'at risk' students and the design and monitoring of alternative programs or behaviour contracts for students deemed to be 'at risk'.
- Fostering student leadership skills, including organising students to represent the school
- Fundraising
- Students in the Senior School
- Fostering student leadership aspirations and skills
- Close liaison with the Head of Department, Senior Schooling, the FEET First Coordinator and Employment and Training Coordinator of the School to Work Transition Project to ensure productive participation in
- QCS preparation
- Work experience programs
- School based traineeships and apprenticeships
- The Wednesday program
- In conjunction with the Administration Team and the HOD of Senior Schooling, formal monitoring each term of academic performance, attendance, behaviour level and incidents to ensure that students are meeting the requirements of the Senior Schooling Agreement.
- Early intervention for students having difficulty making the transition to senior schooling
- In conjunction with Deputy Principals, monitoring of the behaviour of students on 'spares'
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