AddressTallangatta Secondary College is a small, country, coeducational secondary college located 40 kilometres northeast of Wodonga. The school draws its enrolment of 330 students from local schools within the Kiewa Valley and the broader Wodonga district. The College currently has 50 staff - 2 Principal staff, 28 teaching staff and 20 Education Support staff). Our current Student Family Occupation (SFO) is 0.42, with no students from a Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE).
Our Vision
Tallangatta Secondary College is committed to empowering all to become resilient and confident lifelong learners with a strong sense of self and community.
Our Mission
To maximise each student¿s achievement and learning growth by progressing student learning for every student, every day.
To optimise each student¿s wellbeing and engagement in learning by empowering student agency.
To build a culture of continuous improvement where high expectations, collective efficacy and accountability is our agreed moral purpose.
Our Values
Having shared values helps us to set expectations of how we should all behave and treat each other to become a school community that values high performance, strong accountability, positive school culture and continual learning.
Living our values shows us at our best and helps us achieve the goals of this strategic plan.
At Tallangatta Secondary College, our values are Respect, Empathy, Attitude and Learning (REAL) and are embedded in all our actions and decisions as a school community.
We are committed to providing a broad range of curriculum and extra-curricular programs, whilst maintaining a student-centred approach to meeting individual student needs.
Students in Years 7-10 participate in a common curriculum at their year level to ensure access to all core learning areas (English, Maths, Science, HPE, Humanities). They are also provided with the opportunity to select electives from the areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Technology and LOTE. In addition to this, students in Term 4 of Year 9 will undertake a compulsory Future Makers class in place of an elective, and students in Year 10 have the option of a Peer Support elective in Term 1.
REAL mentors play an active role in monitoring and advising students of subject selections and are the point of contact for parents if they have concerns or questions regarding the process. Students recognised with particular strengths or areas in need of consolidation will be catered for as part of our Inclusive and Responsive Teaching Framework.
We also proudly offer extensive VET and VCE to students in Years 11 ¿ 12 to ensure a managed individual pathway approach is taken as students¿ transition through their senior years of schooling.
In addition to the curriculum unit offerings, the school offers a broad range of co-curricular programs including Student Leadership Team, Youth CFA, Tallangatta Herald Newspaper, Instrumental Music, Biennial Northern Territory tour and Overland Trek.
The College has a one-to-one provision of leased school nominated devices as a learning tool and utilizes Compass as the web-based school management platform. Eight cycles of GPA L reporting supported by termly Student Led Conferences (SLC) ensures learning progress is monitored, shared, and celebrated.
A School Wide Positive Behaviour Support framework (SWPBS) builds a positive learning environment, along with our College values - Respect, Empathy, Attitude and Learning (REAL), 7 ¿ 12 REAL homegroups and REAL mentors. The College has a school nurse, Mental Health Practitioner and Chaplain.
Tallangatta Secondary College supports teachers to reflect and build their capacity through collaborative structures such as Professional Learning Communities and Team Tuesday and Team Thursday. Effective Teaching Techniques (ETT) is our whole school instructional model.
