English / EAL Teacher

Hallam Secondary College: Location Profile

Hallam Secondary College is in Southeast Melbourne on the lands of the Bunurong and learning communities have flourished on this land for more than 30,000 years.  The current College has been on this site since 1971 and is going through exciting change.

Over the next 4 years;

·     HSC will be reorganised and expanded to cater for growing demand in south-east Melbourne and give families certainty they will have a quality local school for their entire secondary schooling journey.

·     The school is progressively moving from a Year 10-12 to a Year 7-12 school from Term One 2023, allowing it to increase enrolments.

·     The current strengths at senior level in vocational education and its Sports Academy to be supplemented by a broader offering of VCE subjects for its growing student cohort.

Our Vision and Mission is to create a school that;

·     Is a true learning community

·     Is a safe, calm and happy environment

·     Is a place students wish to attend, staff want to work and parents feel welcome

·     fulfills student potential, and

·     prepares students for life beyond school

Our current enrolment sits at 475 with an SFOE of 0.566. We primarily enrol students from the Hallam, Eumemmerring and Doveton suburbs with many Senior students travelling in from further afield.  Our current staffing profile consists of an Executive Principal, three Assistant Principals, six Leading Teachers, four Learning Specialists, 38 Classroom Teachers and 24 Educational Support staff.

We are a medium sized College serving a culturally and ethnically diverse community. Our size enables us to know every student and offer a range of programs that are more commonly found in a large school.

Our 2022 to 2026 Strategic School Plan goals are to:

·         Maximise each students achievement and learning growth, and

·         Maximise each students wellbeing and engagement in learning

Our Values of Achievement, Care and Equity underpin all our work.

We use the metaphor of a learning compass to develop the types of competencies students need to successfully navigate towards the future we want, individually and collectively.

Just as a compass orients a traveller, the HSC Learning Compass indicates the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values students need not just to weather the changes in our environment and in our daily lives, but to help shape the future we want.

Our curriculum programs privilege Literacy, Numeracy and Health. Our curriculum structure is aligned with our Vision and Mission and has an unswerving focus learning skills underpinned by the Victorian Curriculum in Years 7 to 10. Our Senior students can access a wide range of VCE and Applied Learning Programs including University enrichment courses and HeadStart as part of a three-year pathway to success.

The College has three Centres of Excellence that enrich and extend the curriculum. These are;

·     Sports Performance

·     Arts and Performance

·     Technology Innovation

As one of the largest school-based Registered Training Organisations in Victoria our Senior students can access the Hallam Valley Trade training Centre which provides a wide range of applied learning courses on site.

Our evidence-based approach to learning and teaching is informed by the work of John Hattie, Dylan Wiliams and Richard Elmore. Our balanced pedagogical approach draws on Responsive Teaching, Inclusive Classroom Practices and the Berry Street Education Model. Professional growth is facilitated through Professional Learning Communities, Instructional Coaching and sharing practice through reciprocal classro9om visits.

Our work with students is framed by the Response to Intervention model. The College delivers intervention and extension classes in English and Mathematics for students who require Tier 2 and 3 support. Additional Tier 2 supports include a range of performance and arts-based programs, and programs that support diversity and inclusion.

The College is committed to developing happy, healthy and resilient learners and we have invested significantly in allied health expertise and a range of specialist intervention programs underpinned by the Berry Street Education Model, Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships and School Wide Positive Behaviour Support practices.