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Homegroup Curriculum

Homegroup Curriculum

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Structure and Purpose
At the start of each day the students meet as a homegroup. The homegroup structure provides an environment where students feel comfortable and supported. Students will receive daily information via the school bulletin during the homegroup morning sessions. The homegroup teacher provides pastoral care to students. The Homegroup Program at the Bayview Campus has a curriculum which is specific for each year level. Each year level has a fortnightly assembly.Each day after recess, the students meet as a homegroup. In this session, students receive daily information via the school bulletin about events and announcements taking place at school and in the greater community. The homegroup environment also provides a consistent base for students to communicate with their homegroup teacher and receive pastoral care. There are regular extended assemblies where students receive information specific to their year level.
* School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework - introduction activities
* Organisational & study skills
* eSmart skills
* Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship activities
* Emotional literacy activities; what I believe in and what I stand for
* Growth Mindset
* Personal strength activities
* Positive coping activities
* Problem solving activities; how to be happy, proofing yourself
* Traditional activities for Grade 6 to Year 7 - building friendships, daily routines, campus tour, locker organisation, using diary
* Stress management activities; introduction to your brain, how to calm yourself down, Success Assassins
* Assertive help seeking, peer support
* Random Acts of Kindness
* Student transition and resilience program
* Class yearbook project.
* School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework - consolidation activities
* eSmart skills
* Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship activities
* Emotional literacy activities; hidden emotions
* Growth Mindset
* Personal strength activities; finding your top five strengths
* Positive coping activities; what is self talk, remembering our strengths
* Problem solving activities;
* Stress management activities; what is stress
* Help seeking
activities; assertive help seeking what can you say, peer support
* Careers and Pathways activities
* Gratitude challenge
* Student transition and resilience program; my friendship skills.
• School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework- consolidation activities
• Organisational & study skills
• eSmart skills
• Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship activities
• Growth Mindset
• Emotional literacy activities; emotions vocabulary, body language empathy quiz, hidden emotions
• Personal strengths activities; introducing assertiveness
• Positive coping activities
• Problem solving activities
• Stress management activities
• Help seeking activities
• Careers and Pathways activities
• Year 10/11 course selection work
• Be the Hero program
• Student transition and resilience program
• Morissby online testing.
* School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework- consolidation activities
* Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship activities (resilience, stress management, inclusivity, building a safe school,)
* Growth Mindset, Celebrating Diversity, Feminism, Drug and Alcohol Education and Understanding Consent
* Incursions around driving, social violence, gambling and Youth Mental Health First Aid
* Work Experience and OHS preparation.
* Pathways research and introduction to My Future
* VCE, VCAL & VET
pathways presentation.
* School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework- consolidation activities
* Organisational & study skills
* Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship activities (resilience, stress management, helping peers)
* Incursions for organisation and study skills, safe driving, career talks
* Introduction to using VTAC website, and career research using My Future and other career tools.
* Introduction to using VTAC website, and career research using My Future and other career tools.
* Incursions and workshops around Respectful Relationships

* School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) Framework- consolidation activities
* Organisational & study skills
* Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationship Activities (resilience, stress management, positive coping)
* Exam management - exam revision lectures, incursions for exam strategies
* Pathway & VTAC discussions and monitoring of applications
* Careers & Pathways updates via weekly assemblies.
* Incursions and workshops around Respectful Relationships

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