Chapel Hill State School

Value of the Month - March - Fair Go

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What is Values Education?

Any explicit and/or implicit activity which promotes a child’s understanding and knowledge of values and which develops the skills and dispositions of children so that they can enact particular values as individuals and as members of the wider community.

 Three Major Influences:

• The Family The School/Education Process
• The Practices of the Wider Community

What Should Be the Focus of Val ues Education in Schools?

Clarifying the hidden assumptions and beliefs underlying individual and societal behaviour.

 Drawing out in students, their own realizations of the values, which promote their well-being and the well- being of others.

Assisting students to develop values and behaviours, which they can recognize as being more useful for their own and others well- being.

Why Values Education?

To improve outcomes for individuals, groups and society generally by: enhancing relationships.

• enabling individuals to know themselves and others.
• enabling good decision making.
• encouraging individuals to act ethically.

VALUES EDUCATION

On the Pupil Free Day the eight Values Teams from the eight schools across the District, who are part of the Commonwealth Government's Values Education initiative, met in our Hall.  Chapel Hill has been nominated as the Lead School in this project and we are proud to be part of this research project (under the guidance of Dr Pam Christie from the University of Qld) that will span 2005 - 2008.  Theteam from Chapel Hill who will lead the project in our School Community are Lorne Willadsen (Project Coordinator for the Cluster), Ross Perry, Michelle Gill (Teacher), Geoff Hilton (Teacher), Alison Jefferis (Non Teaching Staff), Louise Remmerswaal (Parent) and Fiona Lougheed (Parent).

As you can see the team is representative of the adult stakeholders in our school community as this is a whole school initiative.

The project aims to -

Ø       Raise awareness and increase dialogue about Values Education and how to improve it.

Ø       Develop a Values Education Strategy for each school to ensure strategic planning for the project.

Ø       Develop site-specific frameworks for the effective teaching/learning of the values across yearlevels and the KLAs.

Ø       Motivate/empower our school communities to live/celebrate the values every day.

VALUES CONFERENCE

Yesterday, Monday 29 th August, the Val ues Team of Mrs Willadsen, Mr Hilton, Miss Gill, Mrs Jefferis, Mrs Lougheed and Mrs Withnall, Mrs Bullen, Miss Ginnivan & myself attended the first Qld Values Conference that was held at the Hilton Hotel in Brisbane . The Conference progressed the Values Team thinking and understanding to help implement the Val ues Program success throughout the school.

A special note of acknowledgement to Jacqui Nesbitt (School Captain) who was on a student panel that consisted of two Yr 7students and four Secondary school students from around Qld to voice her views and opinions of Val ues Education and how the school is implementing Val ues and what Val ues mean most to her. Congratulations to Jacqui who spoke confidently to an audience of nearly 450 teachers and parents.

Values Education is an on-going Program at CHSS and we will be coming to terms with addressing the nine Val ues as set down by the Federal Government of Care & Compassion, Doing Your Best, Fair Go, Freedom, Honesty & Trustworthiness, Integrity, Respect, Responsibility & Understanding, Tolerance & Inclusion.

The Student Panel at the Queensland Values Conference //// Chapel Hill Values Team at the Conference

VALUES EDUCATION

OUR PROGRESS

When we embarked on this journey we believed that our first task was to identify which values our school community currently valued (by conducting school forums and audits). Then we thought we would align these values with the National Framework and thereafter expend our imaginations, time and energy on inculcating these values.

• ENTER THE DRAGON!

Dr Peter Vardy arrived in the cluster. He thoroughly engaged our thinking and challenged us to commit to Val ues Education that goes far beyond developing cognitive understandings. He discussed the need for the acquisition of intellectual tools, which enable students to appreciate values diversity as they engage in values clarification, values analyses and informed moral and ethical debate. This is now happening in many of our classrooms where we are using Philosophy, classroom meetings, debating nd substantive discussion.

Our Value for the month is RESPECT.

R eally understanding that everyone is unique and valuable.

E veryone deserves it..

S eeing that all property and the environment are being looked after.

P utting yourself at the service of others.

E xercising your manners.

C ontrolling the way you speak to others.

T reating others as you would have them treat you.

Students who have been nominated by their classmates are - Gracie Richter, Abby Richardson, Sebastian More-O’Ferrall, Nalini ingh, Claire Viney, Nathan Skulander, Joshua Brooks, Jordan Shipard, Sophia Gilchrist, Tim Proberts, Molly Jackson, Isabel Hall, Jayden Stickley, Amelia Remmerswaal, Jemima Michell, Emily Foley, Curtis Cameron, Ewan Campbell, Ashleigh Harding, Rosie Katunar, Jessica Blinks, Emily Schofield-Cox.