Student Services

ROLES OF THE STUDENT SERVICES TEAM

The School maintains an active Student Services team to ensure that individual students receive the support necessary for them to succeed at school. An emphasis is placed upon creating a caring environment and providing students with easy access to staff when any assistance is required. The pastoral care of the students is the responsibility of all staff at Perth Modern School.

The Associate Principal is responsible for coordinating the Student Services team, working on the vision and strategies to ensure systems and processes are in place to enable success for each students to achieve their future pathway.

Manager of Senior Years works specifically with students, parents, and teachers on Years 10-12wit their academic success, WACE achievement, and future pathways.

The Manager Middle Years ensures that there is effective liaison between staff, students and parents, with a main focus on students in the Middle Years )Years 7-9) and the love of learning.

Each cohort has a Year Coordinator with a specific Year Theme as their focus. The Year 7 Coordinator embeds the Sense of Belonging, whilst the Year 12 Year Coordinator focuses on a Sense of Community. The Year 7 Coordinator remains in that role. The Year 8, 9 and 10 Coordinators rotate with their students, which enable continuity of care and consistent support in the Senior Years. The Years 11 and 12 Coordinators have a very specific focus on WACE and SCSA requirements to meet coupled with university and scholarship expertise.

For one period per week, here is an Advocacy class. The Advocacy teacher supports the program which includes guest speakers, House activities and Thriving minds lessons to embed the whole school wellbeing initiative. Where possible, the Advocacy teacher will remain with the students for their time at Perth Modern School.

The School Psychologist supports students who are at educational risk especially if they are experiencing an emotional or family crisis. The Psychologist also conducts workshops designed to promote emotional health.

The School Chaplain represents a general Christian non-sectarian presence in the school. Through informal friendship and as a member of the Student Services team, the Chaplain will provide support for any students who have concerns affecting his or her emotional wellbeing, friendship group or school performance.

The School Nurse provides emergency care, counselling services for students and staff, conducts health and screening and immunisation program and assists staff with Health Education classes by providing advise or organising guest speakers.

The Educational Assistants work with the teachers and Student Services Team to support the academic progress of students who have specific learning disorders or neurodiversity diagnoses.

Student Services Allied support staff are an integral part of the tea, ensuring that students are met, communication between home and the school is efficient and accurate records are kept.