Our policies and reports

Our policies and reports help families understand how our school works. Our annual report and school plan show what we’ve done and how we’re improving each year.  Our policies address attendance, absences, behaviour, uniform and how we respond to your concerns.

Annual school report

Each year, we share our progress in the annual school report. It gives families a clear picture of how our school is performing and how we’re supporting every student’s success. The report reflects our commitment to openness, accountability and continuous improvement.

The report includes:

• what we’re doing well and where we’re improving
• student achievement and academic progress
• our school vision and goals
• key highlights and milestones
• challenges we’ve faced and how we’re addressing them.

School excellence plan

Our school excellence plan (SEP) is a working document that shows our priorities in learning, teaching and leading. It explains our focus areas for improvement and how we plan to get there. We write our SEP with help from our school community so it reflects our shared priorities.

School behaviour support and management plan

Our school has a school behaviour support and management plan (SBSMP). The SBSMP helps us create a safe, respectful and supportive learning environment for all students. It sets clear expectations for student behaviour. This includes how we respond to bullying and cyberbullying. We work together with our school community to shape the plan and review it each year.

Morisset High School is committed to working restoratively with the school community to explicitly teach and model positive behaviour for learning, to ensure all students can reach their potential.

Our vision is to be recognised for teaching excellence, educational opportunities, and aspirational pathways that transform lives. The principles of restorative practice, positive behaviour for learning (PBL), trauma-informed practice, explicit teaching, and social-emotional learning underpin our daily practice. At Morisset High School, every young person has a right to quality education in a positive, safe, and productive learning environment.

All students are responsible for creating a strong learning culture and community by practising the school values of Respect, Safety, Responsibility, and Engagement every day in class and in the yard.

Our processes are founded on the idea that students must learn to take responsibility for their own actions and to ensure all staff respond to these challenges restoratively, to support students to acknowledge harm, repair harm and learn from their behaviour.

To achieve our vision, the key approaches and programs that are prioritised and valued by the school community are:

• Restorative Practice
• Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)
• Explicit Teaching
• Berry Street Education Model: trauma-informed practice

These approaches and programs prioritize social and emotional learning, supporting positive mental health, positive relationships, and the development of emotional intelligence, contributing to a safer school environment that empowers students to resolve peer conflict and be ready to learn.

Restorative Practice is a whole-school teaching and learning approach that encourages behaviour that is supportive and respectful. It puts the onus on individuals to be truly accountable for their behaviour and to repair any harm caused to others, as a result of their actions. A restorative approach focuses on building, maintaining, and restoring positive relationships, particularly when incidents that involve interpersonal conflict or wrongdoing occur.

Restorative Practices work best when the whole school community is on board.

For more information about how manage and support students to make the most of their time at school and partner with parents, carers and the community to support the positive development of the whole child, click on the link below.

School behaviour support and management plan

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