Positive Education 2015

This year marks a new and ambitious stage in our Positive Education Journey!
During the second half of last year, a dedicated group of teachers worked hard to develop a Positive Education program of one 50 minute lesson a week for every year level in the school.

The year 8 team had release time in 2013 to develop their program and trialled it in 2014. Work for years 9 – 10 began in July when the Geelong Grammar team were at the school delivering their Positive Education training. Staff who had completed the training in 2013 workshopped to create the beginnings of a whole school Positive Education Program.

A small team continued to develop the program during the remainder of 2014, with the work being picked up and completed by the 2015 year level teams!
We are beginning the program with an introductory/revisionary lesson for the whole school about the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of Positive Education at Mount Barker High School.

Using a broad range of research-based activities, reflections and resources we have tracked the progression of lessons from years 8 – 12 to ensure that each year level flows on from the previous one and builds on what has been covered before! Naturally, this is very much a work in progress and will continue to be developed, monitored, evaluated and re-developed.

It has been really exciting to see the energy and enthusiasm staff members gave and continue to give this program. I was blown away by the way the new year level teams picked up what had been done in 2014 and organised themselves to continue with the work for 2015! What a great team of people to work with!

I look forward to sharing the program with our students and getting them involved in further improvements!