Supporting Aspirations – Student Focus Area Process in Home Group

For many of us, setting a target to focus on, both short and long term, is part and parcel of life. We have all done it time and time again, with varied levels of success. 

With the support of Home Group teachers, students at Newcomb Secondary College will undertake a series of sessions over the course of the next fortnight in preparation for establishing targeted focus areas for them to work towards.  Students will then reflect upon, during the remainder of Semester One. 

Students will narrow their focus areas to at least one Academic target, and at least one Positive Futures Framework target. In the lead up to settling on their focus area targets, students will be supported with a series of lessons in their Home Group.  They will have the opportunity to reflect on the feedback provided to them thus far in 2022 by teachers (verbal, on learning tasks, peer assessed feedback etc.) as well as have the opportunity to gain further knowledge and understanding about the Positive Futures Framework itself.

The Positive Futures Framework is a point of difference offered to students at Newcomb SC. The Framework allows students to understand what skills and attributes are deemed important for success in the future world of work, as well as in their chosen life pathways. The Framework is becoming embedded in the learning and wellbeing program here at Newcomb SC and will hold our students, and our community in good stead in the foreseeable future.

Phil Honeywell, Principal
Scott McLeod, Assistant Principal
James Murphy, Assistant Principal