Yarra Me School 2021

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  • Home
  • Our School
    • Reports
    • Working at YarraMe
    • Contact Us >
      • Compass (secure log in)
  • Outreach Services
    • Positive Partnerships Service
  • Preston Program
  • Referrals
  • Hurstbridge Farm
  • Community
    • Child Safety Standards
    • School Council (secure log in)
  • Parent Resources
    • Courses for Parents

Yarra Me School specialises in building social and emotional capability, wellbeing and engagement in education for our learners. This is done by building student capability whilst developing the Team Around the Learner.
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The Team Around the Learner (TAL) consists of the learner and their family / carers, school leaders, teachers and education support staff from the referring school and other Key Stakeholders.


Personalisation, Pedagogy and Partnerships

Yarra Me School believes in the efficacy and the power of the '3Ps' - Personalisation, Pedagogy and Partnerships:
  • Meeting the student at their point of need (personalisation)
  • Providing reasonable adjustments (personalisation and pedagogy), whilst
  • Focusing on relationship styles that support learning and healing (partnerships)
  • Teacher practice (pedagogy) being:
    • ​Informed by trauma-sensitive practices (personalisation and pedagogy)
    • Supporting of behaviour change by being mindful and observant of the deeper and often hidden motivations for student behaviour

Yarra Me School provides:

  • A classroom-based, intensive social and emotional tier 2 and 3 learning environment:
    • ​At our Preston campus
    • For 3 days a week across 2 terms
  • Outreach Services to schools:
    • ​As a component of the Intake program
    • As an additional follow-up to the Intake program
    • As a stand-alone Outreach Coaching Service providing tier 1 support to schools
    • As a stand-alone Consultation with our Special Education and Autism Consultant

​Conditions for Success

Every learner will succeed when their environment allows them to experience:
  • Feeling safe
  • Feeling like they belong
  • Believing they are understood and cared for
  • Being met at their point of need with trusted adults supporting their strengths and challenges

Every child wants to succeed. Every child wants to fit in. Every child wants to be liked and be likeable.

To achieve this, some children need support that is better tuned into their strengths, and intervention that recognises the child has a problem or expectation that they cannot solve or meet.

If a child is struggling to engage in school, they probably have un-solved problems and they feel trapped or stuck. They may feel scared or are hurting.

They need adults to help them find or co-create solutions to the problems, then the child will be able to behave in ways that allow them to feel safe, like they belong, like they are understood and they are cared for.


​Success with Yarra Me School

Three crucial conditions must be met to achieve strong, positive and sustainable outcomes:
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In combination, these conditions prove immensely powerful and influential.

If any one of these conditions is not met, the positive student outcomes are likely to either be less strong, less positive, and/or short-lived.

Thus, the success of the students, families and schools is determined by the strength of the commitment we share.

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Email [email protected] | Phone (03) 9478 8895 | Fax (03) 9478 6686 | Address Highview Road Preston Vic 3072 | Postal PO Box 8228 Northland Centre VIC 3072  | ABN 32 453 166 084