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EXCELLENCE AWARDEE:
Berry Public School
Pivot Best Student
Wellbeing Program
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EXCELLENCE AWARDEE:
Berry Public School
Pivot Best Student
Wellbeing Program
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Pivot Best Student Wellbeing Program
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EXCELLENCE AWARDEE:
Ainslie Wearne
Classroom Teacher
Bob Willetts
Principal
Moving to a large P-12 Lutheran College in Perth WA in 2004, Shane eventually took on the position of Head of Middle School and grew in his capacity to lead teams of educators into creating learning environments and experiences that focused on students and their individual needs.
Shane became Principal of St James Lutheran College in Hervey Bay in 2009, leading innovative best practice to grow the school from primary to secondary. This college in 2010 was the first school in Australia to provide students with 24/7 devices, every Year 8 student was issued with an Apple iPod which they could use at home or at school. This drive to be student focused, create programs and environments that integrate technology and pedagogical best practice into a strong community environment has continued as Shane took on the role of Principal at Faith Lutheran College Redlands in 2017, where he still serves. With a vision to grow an energised learning community the work continues.
Principal
Shane Altmann
Berry Public School is located south of Sydney in the rural and picturesque township of Berry. With an enrolment of 350 students, it is known for its long-term, whole-school commitment to innovation and excellence in student wellbeing. Living Ripples – is the pulse of the school through the lens of students every day. Berry Public School’s Living Ripples student wellbeing program is at the heart of an interconnected, whole-school community wellbeing ecosystem and culture of which the school is immensely proud. Living Ripples - Student Wellbeing in Action at Berry PS provides support structures and programs that build knowledge and capabilities to enhance the wellness and resilience of students, parents, teachers, and community members.
Some of the features of the wellbeing program include:
Ainslie Wearne
Classroom Teacher
Bob Willetts
Principal
Leadership
Local Government in New Zealand consists of 78 local, regional and unitary councils. The Far North District Council is the most northern territorial authority and serves the residents of Kaitaia, Kaikohe, Kawakawa, Kerikeri, Paihia and Russell, as well as several smaller settlements and rural and Māori communities. We are a growing district of 71,000 people spread over 7,324km². The Far North district stretches from Cape Rēinga at the northern tip of New Zealand down to the Bay of Islands and Hokianga.
Local Government in New Zealand consists of 78 local, regional and unitary councils. The Far North District Council is the most northern territorial authority and serves the residents of Kaitaia, Kaikohe, Kawakawa, Kerikeri, Paihia and Russell, as well as several smaller settlements and rural and Māori communities. We are a growing district of 71,000 people spread over 7,324km². The Far North district stretches from Cape Rēinga at the northern tip of New Zealand down to the Bay of Islands and Hokianga.
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Moving to a large P-12 Lutheran College in Perth WA in 2004, Shane eventually took on the position of Head of Middle School and grew in his capacity to lead teams of educators into creating learning environments and experiences that focused on students and their individual needs.
Shane became Principal of St James Lutheran College in Hervey Bay in 2009, leading innovative best practice to grow the school from primary to secondary. This college in 2010 was the first school in Australia to provide students with 24/7 devices, every Year 8 student was issued with an Apple iPod which they could use at home or at school. This drive to be student focused, create programs and environments that integrate technology and pedagogical best practice into a strong community environment has continued as Shane took on the role of Principal at Faith Lutheran College Redlands in 2017, where he still serves. With a vision to grow an energised learning community the work continues.
Principal
Shane Altmann
Ainslie Wearne
Classroom Teacher
Bob Willetts
Principal
Leadership
Shane Altmann studied teaching from 1986 to 1989 at Armidale Teacher’s College in NSW. He began teaching at a small independent Christian school in country NSW. Both of these institutions were very community focused environments who, at the time, were asking, ‘Why?’ Each in their own way questioning current practice to ensure that it aligned with what was best for students. This laid a platform for the overarching theme of Shane’s teaching and leadership career, that is to question what he was doing and come up with better solutions for students.
Moving to Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Noosa in 1994 Shane taught Middle Primary and Early Years classes before moving back to NSW where he became interested in Middle Schooling and began teaching students from Years 7 to 9. He was energised by the idea of bringing constructivist pedagogies, common in primary classes, into the secondary setting and breaking down traditional faculty barriers to create meaningful integrated and connected experiences for adolescent learners.
Moving to a large P-12 Lutheran College in Perth WA in 2004, Shane eventually took on the position of Head of Middle School and grew in his capacity to lead teams of educators into creating learning environments and experiences that focused on students and their individual needs.
Shane became Principal of St James Lutheran College in Hervey Bay in 2009, leading innovative best practice to grow the school from primary to secondary. This college in 2010 was the first school in Australia to provide students with 24/7 devices, every Year 8 student was issued with an Apple iPod which they could use at home or at school. This drive to be student focused, create programs and environments that integrate technology and pedagogical best practice into a strong community environment has continued as Shane took on the role of Principal at Faith Lutheran College Redlands in 2017, where he still serves. With a vision to grow an energised learning community the work continues.
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Shane Altmann
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Shane Altmann studied teaching from 1986 to 1989 at Armidale Teacher’s College in NSW. He began teaching at a small independent Christian school in country NSW. Both of these institutions were very community focused environments who, at the time, were asking, ‘Why?’ Each in their own way questioning current practice to ensure that it aligned with what was best for students. This laid a platform for the overarching theme of Shane’s teaching and leadership career, that is to question what he was doing and come up with better solutions for students.
Moving to Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Noosa in 1994 Shane taught Middle Primary and Early Years classes before moving back to NSW where he became interested in Middle Schooling and began teaching students from Years 7 to 9. He was energised by the idea of bringing constructivist pedagogies, common in primary classes, into the secondary setting and breaking down traditional faculty barriers to create meaningful integrated and connected experiences for adolescent learners.
Stuart Needham began teaching in 2004 at a large Secondary School in Southampton, UK. The school was a state school based in a very low socioeconomic area of the city. Students had very little and school could be challenging for some. This school helped Stuart develop an understanding that engagement, community and relationships were the foundation that quality learning should be built on.
After emigrating to Australia Stuart began work at a growing independent school on the Sunshine Coast. During that time he was fortunate to serve the students and staff as Head of Science and Head of Teaching and Learning. During this time he continued to learn from inspirational leaders and was able, as part of a team, to develop several innovative programs and initiatives.
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Stuart Needham
In 2014 Stuart moved to Hervey Bay where he worked as a Deputy Principal of Teaching and Learning and Senior School Coordinator in both the Lutheran and Anglican systems. In these schools he focussed on creating with staff a mixture of agile spaces and contemporary pedagogy that supported students developing skills for success in the future.
In 2018 he moved back to Brisbane and took on the role if Head of Secondary at Faith Lutheran College. With the great team of leaders and educators he has facilitated a change in the way learning and pastoral care is delivered. Creating a greater focus on contemporary learning, contemporary spaces, high relationships and community.
Jodi is a passionate, strategic school leader who always has students at the heart of all decisions. An energetic, professional, proactive and forward-thinking individual who is committed to excellence, innovation and the development of a school culture that will see each individual student flourish. Through proven skills engaging and inspiring students, staff and members of the wider community, Jodi has developed, facilitated and implemented structures that allow staff to operate in rich professional learning communities. The ability to embed these processes allows continued cultural change and staff ownership of teaching and learning programs across the college. Jodi is a dynamic and emerging leader who understands that it is the collaborative team environment that brings true change and innovation to take a school to the next level of education. She effectively leads and manages complex programs and as a person of vision, she is able to develop strategies that enable outcomes to be achieved so that quantifiable improvements are apparent. It is evident that Jodi’s mission is to ensure that students recognise their ability as God given, to be exercised and developed through learning, and used in becoming young men and women of integrity and global influence.
Head of Junior School
Jodi Blackwell
My passion for students learning started while growing up on a farm by learning that you don’t need to be at school to learn. I have taught across the Queensland from social economic disadvantaged students to Indigenous students living in an island paradise. For the past twenty years I have been at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where we first started integrated studies for students which combined learning areas into real life study areas. Which has led to the introduction to the MyPath@Faith Program. I constantly remind myself that education is not learning but learning is education.
Deputy Head of Secondary School Learning
David Moore
Leanne Wheeler has been working as a Business Manager in independent schools for the 25 years. Most recently, she has at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where she has been for the past five years. Leanne first commenced her career in Chartered Accounting but developed a passion for the independent education sector when she joined Independent School Queensland in 1993. Leanne is committed to faith based independent education , strongly supported by a rigorous student focussed curriculum. Leanne is actively working with the Faith team to understand how the schools finances and resources are best utilised to meet the vision for student learning.
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Leanne Wheeler
Sue McIntosh
Learning and Support Teacher
Lisa Johnson
Classroom Teacher
Carol Ingold
Classroom Teacher
Shane Altmann studied teaching from 1986 to 1989 at Armidale Teacher’s College in NSW. He began teaching at a small independent Christian school in country NSW. Both of these institutions were very community focused environments who, at the time, were asking, ‘Why?’ Each in their own way questioning current practice to ensure that it aligned with what was best for students. This laid a platform for the overarching theme of Shane’s teaching and leadership career, that is to question what he was doing and come up with better solutions for students.
Moving to Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Noosa in 1994 Shane taught Middle Primary and Early Years classes before moving back to NSW where he became interested in Middle Schooling and began teaching students from Years 7 to 9. He was energised by the idea of bringing constructivist pedagogies, common in primary classes, into the secondary setting and breaking down traditional faculty barriers to create meaningful integrated and connected experiences for adolescent learners.
Stuart Needham began teaching in 2004 at a large Secondary School in Southampton, UK. The school was a state school based in a very low socioeconomic area of the city. Students had very little and school could be challenging for some. This school helped Stuart develop an understanding that engagement, community and relationships were the foundation that quality learning should be built on.
After emigrating to Australia Stuart began work at a growing independent school on the Sunshine Coast. During that time he was fortunate to serve the students and staff as Head of Science and Head of Teaching and Learning. During this time he continued to learn from inspirational leaders and was able, as part of a team, to develop several innovative programs and initiatives.
Head of Secondary
Stuart Needham
In 2014 Stuart moved to Hervey Bay where he worked as a Deputy Principal of Teaching and Learning and Senior School Coordinator in both the Lutheran and Anglican systems. In these schools he focussed on creating with staff a mixture of agile spaces and contemporary pedagogy that supported students developing skills for success in the future.
In 2018 he moved back to Brisbane and took on the role if Head of Secondary at Faith Lutheran College. With the great team of leaders and educators he has facilitated a change in the way learning and pastoral care is delivered. Creating a greater focus on contemporary learning, contemporary spaces, high relationships and community.
Jodi is a passionate, strategic school leader who always has students at the heart of all decisions. An energetic, professional, proactive and forward-thinking individual who is committed to excellence, innovation and the development of a school culture that will see each individual student flourish. Through proven skills engaging and inspiring students, staff and members of the wider community, Jodi has developed, facilitated and implemented structures that allow staff to operate in rich professional learning communities. The ability to embed these processes allows continued cultural change and staff ownership of teaching and learning programs across the college. Jodi is a dynamic and emerging leader who understands that it is the collaborative team environment that brings true change and innovation to take a school to the next level of education. She effectively leads and manages complex programs and as a person of vision, she is able to develop strategies that enable outcomes to be achieved so that quantifiable improvements are apparent. It is evident that Jodi’s mission is to ensure that students recognise their ability as God given, to be exercised and developed through learning, and used in becoming young men and women of integrity and global influence.
Head of Junior School
Jodi Blackwell
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My passion for students learning started while growing up on a farm by learning that you don’t need to be at school to learn. I have taught across the Queensland from social economic disadvantaged students to Indigenous students living in an island paradise. For the past twenty years I have been at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where we first started integrated studies for students which combined learning areas into real life study areas. Which has led to the introduction to the MyPath@Faith Program. I constantly remind myself that education is not learning but learning is education.
Deputy Head of Secondary School Learning
David Moore
Leanne Wheeler has been working as a Business Manager in independent schools for the 25 years. Most recently, she has at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where she has been for the past five years. Leanne first commenced her career in Chartered Accounting but developed a passion for the independent education sector when she joined Independent School Queensland in 1993. Leanne is committed to faith based independent education , strongly supported by a rigorous student focussed curriculum. Leanne is actively working with the Faith team to understand how the schools finances and resources are best utilised to meet the vision for student learning.
Business Manager
Leanne Wheeler
Carol Ingold
Classroom Teacher
Sue McIntosh
Learning and Support Teacher
Stuart Needham began teaching in 2004 at a large Secondary School in Southampton, UK. The school was a state school based in a very low socioeconomic area of the city. Students had very little and school could be challenging for some. This school helped Stuart develop an understanding that engagement, community and relationships were the foundation that quality learning should be built on.
After emigrating to Australia Stuart began work at a growing independent school on the Sunshine Coast. During that time he was fortunate to serve the students and staff as Head of Science and Head of Teaching and Learning. During this time he continued to learn from inspirational leaders and was able, as part of a team, to develop several innovative programs and initiatives.
In 2014 Stuart moved to Hervey Bay where he worked as a Deputy Principal of Teaching and Learning and Senior School Coordinator in both the Lutheran and Anglican systems. In these schools he focussed on creating with staff a mixture of agile spaces and contemporary pedagogy that supported students developing skills for success in the future.
In 2018 he moved back to Brisbane and took on the role if Head of Secondary at Faith Lutheran College. With the great team of leaders and educators he has facilitated a change in the way learning and pastoral care is delivered. Creating a greater focus on contemporary learning, contemporary spaces, high relationships and community.
Head of Secondary
Stuart Needham
Jodi is a passionate, strategic school leader who always has students at the heart of all decisions. An energetic, professional, proactive and forward-thinking individual who is committed to excellence, innovation and the development of a school culture that will see each individual student flourish. Through proven skills engaging and inspiring students, staff and members of the wider community, Jodi has developed, facilitated and implemented structures that allow staff to operate in rich professional learning communities. The ability to embed these processes allows continued cultural change and staff ownership of teaching and learning programs across the college. Jodi is a dynamic and emerging leader who understands that it is the collaborative team environment that brings true change and innovation to take a school to the next level of education. She effectively leads and manages complex programs and as a person of vision, she is able to develop strategies that enable outcomes to be achieved so that quantifiable improvements are apparent. It is evident that Jodi’s mission is to ensure that students recognise their ability as God given, to be exercised and developed through learning, and used in becoming young men and women of integrity and global influence.
Head of Junior School
Jodi Blackwell
My passion for students learning started while growing up on a farm by learning that you don’t need to be at school to learn. I have taught across the Queensland from social economic disadvantaged students to Indigenous students living in an island paradise. For the past twenty years I have been at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where we first started integrated studies for students which combined learning areas into real life study areas. Which has led to the introduction to the MyPath@Faith Program. I constantly remind myself that education is not learning but learning is education.
Deputy Head of Secondary
School Learning
David Moore
My passion for students learning started while growing up on a farm by learning that you don’t need to be at school to learn. I have taught across the Queensland from social economic disadvantaged students to Indigenous students living in an island paradise. For the past twenty years I have been at Faith Lutheran College Redlands where we first started integrated studies for students which combined learning areas into real life study areas. Which has led to the introduction to the MyPath@Faith Program. I constantly remind myself that education is not learning but learning is education.
Business Manager
Leanne Wheeler
• Long-term innovation and commitment to student wellbeing
• Community consultation with Intergenerational Workshops
• A program that reflects research on the collective nature of wellbeing support
• Chosen as the first school in Australia to pilot a holistic student wellbeing program that is funded by philanthropy and backed by research
• Playing a leading role in helping to refine the Living Ripples program to ensure it can be readily integrated into school curriculum and student learning
• Sharing a library of learning and resources online to ensure support is available to the school community
• The success of Berry’s wellbeing program being widely recognised by other schools in the region and interstate
• Leading the architecture for recovery from the 2021 Covid-19 lockdowns across hundreds of schools in NSW to provide professional learning and support to thousands of school leaders and parents.
Tasmyn Martin
Classroom Teacher
Tasmyn Martin
Classroom Teacher
Tasmyn Martin
Classroom Teacher
Lisa Johnson
Classroom Teacher