From the Deputy Principal

In 2012 the school will trial a much more rigorous ‘mentor and monitor’ programme for all students.

As parents you can expect to see and be writing in your son’s student diary, it will be just one method of keeping constant communication with you.  Tutors will be phoning and emailing your son’s progress throughout the year and keeping a detailed profile on achievement with checkpoints that will be monitored as the terms progress.

Your son will bring home a copy of his timetable and an annual assessment schedule, detailing every assessment due. 

We will ensure he is aware of the requirements necessary to achieve in all subjects and the expectation from all staff will be that he achieves each checkpoint.

There will of course be an immediate consequence for not achieving at the level expected and I ask that parents and caregivers support the school with this new initiative.

Afterschool tuition classes will run all year and students will be directed to them if they are found to be performing at a lower level than their identified potential.  Continued failure to give the effort required will see students back at school on Saturday’s or back at school in the first week of the school holidays at the end of every term.

The data collected by the school shows us that we need to demand that students achieve their course work at the level of their potential, not merely pass.

Our core business at school is Teaching and Learning and this trial initiative goes some way into identifying potential and focussing students’ efforts.

This has seen a large number of students actually pass the level they are entered into, without this compulsory study class they would have failed Level 1 or Level 2.

We expect the best from your sons and would appreciate your support for this new approach to student responsibility.

Our aim is to make SBHS the top academic, cultural and sporting school in the country.

Kind regards

Joanne Hutt

Deputy Principal