Safe Harbour: Support for Organisational Change
Our Safe Harbour programme includes intensive professional development, opportunities for parent education, professional supervision and extensive consultation over 3-5 years to bring system wide change towards inclusive practice and pandemic recovery.
Over the last 12 months, St John’s has partnered with Bellavista S.H.A.R.E. and joined their Safe Harbour School’s initiative to deepen our inclusive practices. Bellavista S.H.A.R.E. has an established reputation for excellence in this area, and their wealth lies in their professional knowledge, experience and collective expertise.
The Safe Harbour project has included curated, intensive professional development, opportunities to educate our parent body, professional supervision for our teachers and school management, evidence-based interventions and extensive consultation over 3-5 years to bring system-wide change towards inclusive practice and pandemic recovery.
By playing a part in this initiative, we have begun to establish a shared language for thinking and problem-solving to effectively engage with multi-pronged strategies to support our boys’ cognitive and social-emotional development.
St Stithians Girls’ College’s partnership with SHARE through the Safe Harbour project has provided invaluable expertise and evidence-based insight in our journey towards inclusivity. We have had the opportunity to train our staff through SHARE and engage in critical conversations with key stakeholders from Bellavista, therefore engaging in a more thoughtful and reflective process to transform our school into a safer place.
- Curated training and onsite mentorship for your champions, including their participation in accredited courses in cognitive education, reading and mathematics intervention
- Together with your management team, a deep audit of your policies and programmes to align to notions of recovery and inclusion
- System wide training in the programmes, strategies and practices deployed at Bellavista School across your full faculty
- Monthly supervision of your teams as they introduce deep inclusive practice over 3-5 years
- The sharing of our brand so that your market is aware that you are a quality school in terms of inclusive practice