Attributes of a CLC student.
CLC is a place of heart and the values we instil define our school – and, in turn, the character of our students.
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Excellence
CLC fosters a stimulating learning culture of high expectations. Every student is empowered to grow, inspired to follow their path and reach their potential.
As students we aim to:
- Have high expectations of ourselves and our teachers
- Set challenging and realistic goals, striving to achieve beyond our expectations
- Take action based on our understanding that learning requires taking risks, being uncomfortable and persevering
- Acknowledge and celebrate various forms of excellence: academic achievement, effort, learning and personal growth, co-curricular and community engagement
- Take responsibility in responding to feedback
As staff we aim to:
- Have high expectations of ourselves and our students
- Be explicit about what excellence is and how to achieve it
- Assist students to develop their own understanding of what excellence looks like for them
- Allow all students to be successful, whatever their starting point
- Acknowledge and celebrate various forms of excellence: academic achievement, effort, learning growth, co-curricular and community engagement
- Use data to identify student needs, to inform targeted teaching and to track learning and personal growth
As parents we aim to:
- Actively support our children in the learning process
- Understand that every child can achieve success
- Understand that learning requires students to take risks, make mistakes, persevere, work hard and take responsibility for their own decisions and actions
- Celebrate effort and growth
- Actively and positively contribute to the school/home partnership by engaging with and supporting teachers, trusting their professionalism
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Wisdom
Students use knowledge and understanding for the greater good. By developing discernment through awareness, understanding and action, they learn about the world and about themselves.
As students we aim to:
- Understand our role and responsibilities in contributing to the making of a better world
- Understand the links between learning and local and global contexts
- Be willing to question and challenge in situations that do not feel right socially, morally or ethically
- Reflect on our own experiences to explain how these shape who we are and how we respond
- Be curious and self-aware
- Adopt a positive mindset, attitudes, motivations, and dispositions as a learner to enhance our capacity to learn and make decisions
As staff we aim to:
- Assist students to understand their roles and responsibilities to create a better world
- Link learning to current and emerging real world problems and issues
- Develop students’ intellect, morality, spirituality and emotional intelligence
- Develop the capacity for students to become adaptable, critical and creative thinkers for authentic decision making and discernment
- Provide opportunities for students to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and values that enable them to apply new ideas and find solutions to real world problems
As parents we aim to:
- Build our knowledge and support of school policies, programs and practices
- Allow our children to have a voice in their learning
- Where appropriate, allow our children to make their own decisions and take ownership of them
- Encourage our children to communicate with teachers directly to solve problems and issues
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Belonging
Students learn best when they feel connected to their learning environment. We believe in cultivating compassionate leadership. Every individual is heard, known, valued and accepted.
As students we aim to:
- Build trusting, respectful, safe and supportive relationships, celebrating diversity and individual differences
- Be welcoming to all members of the school community
- Understand that positive relationships with peers and staff increase our wellbeing and in turn help our learning
- Have the confidence to speak to staff about our learning, seek feedback and engage in discussions about our learning
- Contribute to creating learning environments that are safe, inclusive, respectful and relevant
As staff we aim to:
- Build trusting, respectful, safe and supportive relationships, celebrating diversity and individual differences
- Know every student and their story; advocate for all students, helping them to find their passion
- Ensure students actively engage in goal setting/growth conversations with teachers and parents
- Collaborate with students to ensure their learning environments are safe, inclusive, respectful and relevant
- Partner with parents to enhance engagement in their children’s learning and wellbeing
As parents we aim to:
- Model and build trusting, respectful and supportive relationships celebrating diversity and individual differences
- Work with staff to enhance our own and our children’s connections to the school
- Talk to our children about their goals and learning and personal growth
- Have the confidence to speak to individual staff about learning and wellbeing
- Value our children’s involvement in all aspects of College life
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Courage
Our school develops strength within. We are encouraged to explore and embrace challenges. We welcome mistakes as learning opportunities, always encouraged to strive for better.
As students we aim to:
- Use different methods to research, problem solve, experiment and learn
- Make informed decisions by considering perspectives beyond our own
- Take appropriate risks, learn from our mistakes, be flexible and persevere and try new things
- Articulate our own ideas, beliefs and views
As staff we aim to:
- Teach strategies to research, problem solve, experiment and learn
- Include innovative and evidence based pedagogical approaches to learning and wellbeing
- Help students to reflect and evaluate the consequences of their decisions
- Foster an environment where risk taking is encouraged
- Model courage and resilience by sharing our own mistakes with our students
- Provide opportunities for students to have a voice in their learning, wellbeing and in school decision making
As parents we aim to:
- Encourage our children to explore, be flexible, make mistakes, persevere and try new things
- Model courage and share our own mistakes with our children
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