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PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES
The purpose of Kedron State High School as a traditional, academic, disciplined school is to enable our diverse student population to reach its full potential. We will work in partnership with parents and caregivers and provide a safe and inspiring work environment for our staff and students.
Our Philosophy will be demonstrated by the following objectives:
• Treating education as a basic right for children as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Articles 28 and 29).
• Honouring the historical values and practices of our School and greater community.
• Expecting an environment of mutual respect between parents, staff and students.
• Keep reviewing and developing the school’s pedagogical practices to ensure that students and staff are engaged in, and enjoy, lifelong learning.
• Encouraging pride in, and a focus on, academic endeavour and achievement whilst providing opportunities for a holistic education and personal development.
• Developing a curriculum framework based on the 8 Key Learning Areas in the middle school, extending to a variety of subjects and learning options in the senior school which provide a pathway to the student’s chosen future.
• Reinforcing pride in the school’s behaviour and dress standards while creating a safe, respectful and disciplined school environment.
• Offering appropriate support to local, international, non-English speaking background, and hearing impaired students to meet the individual’s needs.
• Nurturing in students and staff an awareness of their rights and responsibilities as citizens of a global and environmentally sustainable community.
• Welcoming and respecting students, parents and staff from diverse backgrounds to create “a sense of belonging for all.”
• Actively embracing our diversity through the curriculum and in extra curricular school life to promote the dignity of difference and explore human commonalities.
• Yielding and celebrating the best from our individual identities and from those things that unite us all.
These actions taken as a whole embody what is known as “The Kedron Way”.
(adopted by the Kedron State High School Council at meeting held 12th November 2008)
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Article 28
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to education, and with a view to achieving this right progressively and on the basis of equal opportunity, they shall, in particular:
(a) Make primary education compulsory and available free to all;
(b) Encourage the development of different forms of secondary education, including general and vocational education, make them available and accessible to every child, and take appropriate measures such as the introduction of free education and offering financial assistance in case of need;
(c) Make higher education accessible to all on the basis of capacity by every appropriate means;
(d) Make educational and vocational information and guidance available and accessible to all children;
(e) Take measures to encourage regular attendance at schools and the reduction of drop-out rates.
2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that school discipline is administered in a manner consistent with the child's human dignity and in conformity with the present Convention.
3. States Parties shall promote and encourage international cooperation in matters relating to education, in particular with a view to contributing to the elimination of ignorance and illiteracy throughout the world and facilitating access to scientific and technical knowledge and modern teaching methods. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries.
Article 29
1. States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to:
(a) The development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential;
(b) The development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;
(c) The development of respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own;
(d) The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin;
(e) The development of respect for the natural environment.
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