To provide a positive school community committed to developing lifelong learners who are achieving their personal best and building their emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Our culture is one of compassion, care and collaboration with high expectations of: Nurture, Growth and Connections.
All members of our community are asked to share, model and promote our values of:
Learning takes place everywhere; whether inside or outside the classroom. Every lesson is aimed at being purposeful with staff teaching life skills considering the learning style of every child.
We care deeply about sustainability, both our footprint; ensuring kindness to the planet, and our handprint showing heart to each other. Knowing we are all the same means everyone is included.
Whether you are a teacher, a parent, carer or a student, you are on a journey. At Halls Head College ESC, we encourage and expect you to own that journey. We empower everyone to find their passion and then pursue it with gusto. We encourage reflection and proactivity, seeing what needs to be done and making it happen. We want everyone to use their initiative; students to have their voices heard and staff to keep on developing professionally.
When everyone grows as individuals we all grow a little bit taller.
We as a school pride ourselves on being open communicators who seek to grow in positive ways. We encourage feedback and genuinely listen to each others points of view.
Staff approach everyday with a growth mindset and a desire to implement best practice in the classroom. This helps us to learn and grow together, this consistency transfers to the classroom so that every students knows exactly what’s expected of them.
Developing strong community connections with staff, parents, carers and local community is vital for the future of our students. By giving them authentic opportunities to engage in the real world they develop valuable life skills.
One of the most important things we do for our students, it to set them up with skills they can use to get a job or become an active community member. By giving them exposure to different experiences, and enabling the community to see how wonderful our students are, we build strong partnerships together.
Success breeds success, by celebrating even the smallest achievements we create a positive culture of acknowledging growth, whatever the size. Recognising and enjoying each other’s success, increases happiness and helps relieve stress, and we know that the best learning environments are those with happy learners.
Because for most if use change ins slow and incremental, we celebrate each step along the way and then when we hit major milestones we go nuts!
