YULE BROOK COLLEGE

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YULE BROOK COLLEGE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY
AGREEMENT  
Working collaboratively to improve educational
outcomes for Aboriginal students
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Basis of agreement is founded on the following
understandings  

• Importance of Reconciliation and Cooperation
• Acknowledgement of uniqueness of Aboriginal
  culture
• Education is the key to the future
• (Importance of) strong and positive
  relationships
• Commitment to a spirit of cooperation and
  harmony
• ALL Aboriginal students graduate
• YBC is a no shame college
• Encouraging students to take pride in self
  family

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Re-engaging the community
Parent community requests

• For Parents
• Aboriginal person on Council
• Aboriginal people involved in decision making
• Parent Committee
• Meeting place
• Local mentors

• For students
• NAIDOC Week
• Fair treatment for behaviour issues
• Substitutes for suspension
• Rewards
• Consultant group

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Underpinning school planning
Priorities Pedagogy (How we teach learn)
Pedagogical approaches which will promote
collaborative and conciliatory relationships Comm
unity (How we relate to one another) to promote
mutual respect, and build capacity for students
to participate in the community.
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Supporting strategies
Cooperative Learning in all classes Pastoral
care program promoting a student-centred focus
implemented through a uniform program Behaviour
management strategies based on the principles of
Restorative Justice Build and enhance
partnerships which support these
priorities Coherent whole-school teaching
learning program personalised and related to
student passions and the real world (Big Picture)
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Other actions and responses
Annual NAIDOC Commemoration Aboriginal person and
parent of Aboriginal students recruited for
College Council Aboriginal Education Council
(Community members, parents, students
teachers) Recommitment to Community
Agreement Partnership with Clontarf Football
Academy ABC of two-way literacy and learning
professional development action research and
genealogy Indigenous meeting circle partnership
with local government consultation with Noongar
Action Committee
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Some statistics
Growth of Indigenous enrolments
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Graduation of Indigenous students Year 10