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Red Earth Community Cluster

Taking values to the community

Red Earth Community Cluster, Victoria

  • Bimbadeen Heights Primary School
  • Kilsyth Primary School
  • Manchester Primary School
  • Mooroolbark College
  • Mooroolbark East Primary School

Project proposal summary

This project aims to give students the opportunity to ‘live’ their values by participating in community projects, attending student forums that examine their values and developing a visual diary that illustrates the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools. Staff and parents within the cluster will participate in professional development that supports the values programs at each school, the Victorian Essential Learnings Domain of Physical, Personal and Social Learning and the National Framework for Values Education. At each school within the cluster, students will plan, fund and implement projects that support local community. Presentations to Council and at Parent Nights will become part of the reflective process for our students.

Red Earth Community Cluster has created a website with links to the schools in the cluster and their projects. It includes Victorian Essential Learning Standards units of work and information on how they used teacher leave to develop a whole school framework for embedding thinking tools and strategies to enhance student engagement.

Final Report

Stage 1 Of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project has now been completed. An extract from Implementing  the  National  Framework  for  Values  Education  in  Australian  Schools:  Report  of  the  Values  Education  Good  Practice  Schools  Project  –  Stage  1:  Final  Report  September  2006 for Red Earth Community Cluster can be downloaded as a PDF document.