Tannum Sands SHS is committed to being a restorative school, learning-focused community where everyone has the right to feel like they belong and are supported. Our focus is on building and maintaining respectful relationships, with everyone being responsible and accountable, and developing personal excellence and integrity by repairing/managing any harm openly and fairly. Being restorative underpins all aspects of our work and we proactively seek to develop strong, respectful relationships between all members of our learning community and work with them to support the work of creating our futures.
School motto – Creating our futures
We refer to our school motto all the time because it encapsulates our school philosophy. 'Creating our futures' says that it is each student's job, with the help of parents and teachers, to set up himself or herself for life beyond high school.
Creating
- Learning is an active, not passive, pursuit – it does not happen to a student, it is something that he or she actively decides to do.
- Teachers, parents and the school can help to provide the right learning environment.
- Ultimately, however, the student must choose to learn.
Our
- In a school, we learn together as a community: students, teachers and parents/carers.
- We need to help each other to learn, never taking away the right of others to learn.
Futures
- School prepares us for, not one, but a variety of futures: employment, further study, relationships, parenthood, civic roles, recreation, cultural enjoyment and so on.
Students can widen and vary the futures that they have depending on how well they decide to create their futures.
Key school values
Showing respect, demonstrating responsibility, seeking excellence
These values apply to all members of the school community: students, staff and parents. At Tannum Sands State High School we:
- Show respect for myself, those around me, and the school environment by demonstrating an inclusive and tolerant mindset.
- Demonstrate responsibility for my actions and am accountable for their impact on my learning and the people around me.
- Seek excellence for myself and those around me by embracing a resilient and growth mindset