Corrimal High School is very fortunate to have a dedicated Aboriginal Learning & Engagement Centre (ALEC) on site.
Working alongside our existing Learning & Wellbeing Hub, our staff provide student centred, individualised support for all of our Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students.
The key focus of the ALEC is the provision of wellbeing, academic and cultural support to enhance outcomes for secondary Aboriginal students. This includes strategies to improve student engagement, attendance, retention, HSC attainment and support for students at key transition points to progress to the Premier’s Priority.
Expectations of the Learning and Engagement Centre
The Learning and Engagement Centre will provide personalised support to increase the proportion of Aboriginal students attaining Year 12 while maintaining their cultural identity
Learning and Engagement Centre will also:
- Improve the educational outcomes and wellbeing of Aboriginal students so that they excel and achieve in every aspect of their education.
- Ensure collaborative decision making with Aboriginal peoples, parents and carers, families and their communities.
- Meet the learning needs and support the cultural knowledge and identity of every Aboriginal student
- Ensure that every Aboriginal student is known, valued and cared for.
Aboriginal Learning and Engagement Centre Activities
The Aboriginal Learning and Engagement Centre focuses on delivering quality strategic individualised support and activities that enhance students’ learning and outcomes via a Personalised Learning Pathway (PLP) process. PLP’s provide a structure for planning and monitoring processes to ensure goals are established and achieved for student learning. PLP’s identify both opportunities as well as potential obstacles that might impede a student achieving their goals and charts a course through them.
The ALEC will offer activities linked to students’ PLP’s and may include activities which:
- Identify and support the learning and cultural identity needs of Aboriginal students.
- Identify and support gifted and talented students, disengaged students and students needing additional learning support.
- Provide individual and personalised student support and goal setting.
- Support the development of homework/study plans across a range of KLAs.
- Provide individual or group tutoring sessions as well as assistance with assignments
- Provide a buddy system of support to link students with a key teacher who supports as a ‘significant other’.
- Assists with appropriate subject selection advice and post-schooling options.
- Provide HSC Minimum Standard support.
- Enables early identification and addressing of barriers to student HSC attainment.
