| School: Castlemaine Secondary College Partner: The Goldenhope Foundation and others Summary: In the past four years, students have worked in partnership with 31 businesses, non-profit organisations and government agencies. Included in this range of partners are the following: Golden Hope Foundation, Central Victorian Gourmet Co-operative Limited, Elliot Midland Express Newspaper, and the Castlemaine Art Gallery. These partners all provide advice, specialist knowledge and experience to assist the school in achieving student outcomes. |
| For example, The Goldenhope Foundation supports young people in managing depression. It runs diverse programs to build well-being and resilience in young people. The Co-operative includes 20 small businesses involved in primary production, food manufacturing, product design and marketing. They assist in placing students in school based traineeships. In response to a clearly identified need in 2005, the school adopted a whole school approach to improving student’s motivation and engagement and increasing teacher morale. The school and community partners developed a shared vision: ‘To create a community of enterprising students, teachers, business, industry and community groups’. As a result of the partnerships, achievements include: improved student motivation; new employment pathways into the local food, wine and hospitality industry; improved literacy, numeracy, proficiency in IT, improved health and wellbeing. What the judges said: These are strong partnerships which show excellent planning and are delivering very worthwhile outcomes. |
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Golden Hope Foundation
- Established to support young people in managing depression
- Runs a diverse suite of programs to build wellbeing and resilience in children and
young people.
- Demonstrates innovation in working with students. Students developed a ‘chatterbox’
an interactive hand held game to explore positive psychology.
- Builds cutting edge curriculum resources for teachers and students to explore
negative feelings and build positive responses, build resilience.
- Established a student led, national day of action ‘Defeat Depression Day’
Elliott Midland Express Newspaper Publishing the Poly Times
- Regionally based paper with a readership of more than 12,000 households per week
- Provides $100,000 in-kind support (editorial, coaching and printing space.)
- Established to support young people in managing depression
- Runs a diverse suite of programs to build wellbeing and resilience in children and
young people.
- Demonstrates innovation in working with students. Students developed a ‘chatterbox’
an interactive hand held game to explore positive psychology.
- Builds cutting edge curriculum resources for teachers and students to explore
negative feelings and build positive responses, build resilience.
- Established a student led, national day of action ‘Defeat Depression Day’
Elliott Midland Express Newspaper Publishing the Poly Times
- Regionally based paper with a readership of more than 12,000 households per week
- Provides $100,000 in-kind support (editorial, coaching and printing space.)