Macarthur Girls High School is a caring educational community which supports the learning of all students. We embrace collaborative and active participation which builds a purposeful, rich environment for personal excellence in student learning and student achievement providing a holistic welfare structure.
Our pride
Program is an effective welfare program promoting the school values of participation, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence. Our teachers seek to inspire, challenge and motivate students through engaging quality welfare programmes which develop unique student capacity for lifelong learning success.
Our aim
It is to develop respectful, responsible, considered students who value learning in the context of a respect for others and their environment. Teachers help students to develop and exhibit a sense of identity, self-concept, belonging and purpose to build skilled, active citizens which positions them for lifelong success.
STUDENT WELFARE POLICY OVERVIEW
The Student Welfare Program is implemented across the school. MGHS is a place where every student can learn and grow with confidence. Students develop best in schools where teaching and learning occur in a context of student welfare.
- Student Welfare encompasses everything that the school community does to meet the personal and social needs of students and enhance their well-being. It involves recognising, evaluating and developing each student as a total and unique person in the context of society.
- An essential part of student welfare is to develop self-discipline which guides students in developing appropriate behaviour and dealing with unacceptable behaviour. It encompasses the concept of respect for the self and others to learn in a mutually respectful environment.
- Student Welfare Program at Macarthur Girls High School aims to help its students to develop enjoyment from learning, communication skills, socially acceptable values, responsibility, and dignity and a sense of worth and self-reliance. Students feel proud of their cultural identity and caring and understanding attitude towards other.
- Students are provided with opportunities beyond the classroom to:
Lead others; Communicate; Develop positive relationships; Recognize and value cultural differences; Care and support other people and Serve the community
- Student welfare is therefore the result of teachers, parents and caregivers, and students working together for the benefit of students.
- Our Welfare Team is committed to continuous improvement of the school, its teachers, its student success and its environment. Our welfare team exists to assist with the creation of an environment in which the school's goals and high expectations can be achieved. Student Welfare Team personnel include:
Principal
Head Teacher Welfare
Stage Leaders
School Counsellors
Year Advisers (Years 7-12)
Assistant Year Advisers (Years 7-12)
Attendance Monitors (Years 7-12)
PRIDE Program Teachers
- The function of the Team is to keep open the avenues of communication concerning the welfare of individual students and to recognise the need for, and to formulate any new procedures, programs or policies concerning student welfare as they arise. Pro-active initiatives aimed at better catering for the evolving needs, interests and abilities of students is a prime concern. All members of the Welfare Team spend considerable time supporting and advising students and their parents, and in providing a point of contact as well as a source of communication between students, their home and the school. All PRIDE time activities are devised by the Welfare Team.
Good student welfare equals good student learning.