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Student wellbeing Excellence in staff
Statement of intent: Statement of intent:
MLC offers age appropriate, sequential and integrated programs within a responsive student wellbeing framework in order to develop resilient young women who are confident to make positive choices in life.
MLC recognises that quality educational outcomes are driven by excellence in teaching and learning provided by the highest quality, motivated teaching and educational support staff.
Strategic aims: Strategic aims:
– Provide a respectful, safe and caring environment where all students thrive.
– Deliver appropriate and responsive, sequential and integrated wellbeing programs that encourage and challenge students throughout their MLC years to reach their potential in all areas of school life.
– Develop students’ skills and attitudes to enable them to contribute meaningfully to a diverse community, through the inherent
Key actions: values of Engage with Respect, Aspire with Responsibility, Act with Compassion and Explore with Courage.
– Focus on Child Safety to ensure we continue to deliver best practice in meeting Child Safe Standards, whether we are onsite or online.
– Develop MLC’s Curriculum for Learning and Wellbeing, including a review of wellbeing programs and structure, for implementation in 2024.
– Progress the embedding of PROSPER across the College, linked with mapping of College values.
– Provide the support required for a successful academically non-selective community and celebrate the diversity this brings to the learning environment.
– Foster a community that encourages and supports students to feel connected, build resilience and make positive choices in life.
– Recruit, motivate, develop, recognise and retain high performing staff.
– Invest in professional training, development and support of staff to ensure an engaged and motivated workforce.
– Strengthen innovative pedagogical practices and teacher efficacy, by
Key actions: drawing on current research, educational partnerships and industry connections.
– Continue to build on and enhance the MLC culture, to support collaboration and innovation and improve communication.
– Develop leaders recognised for their excellence across the education sector.
– Continue to embrace diversity to provide a variety of role models for MLC students.
– Complete a review of the MLC Student Code of Behaviour and Discipline Policy and communicate with all members of the MLC Community.
– Develop the Years 7 – 12 Student Representative Council.
– Trial additional boarding models, including flexi and weekly boarding.
– Introduce and embed formal Succession Planning across the College, to support staff wellbeing and development and enhance leadership for all.
– Review further opportunities for Staff Learning and Training to be delivered digitally, both synchronised and asynchronised.
– Continue our engagement with Universities worldwide, to support staff pedagogical research and professional development.
– Further develop the Staff Wellbeing Committee, established during 2020, to best support MLC staff.
