Student Agency
As stated in the Harvest Home Primary School vision, the students are at the centre and purpose of all that we do. We prepare students to pursue their goals, interests, and aspirations.
With this in mind, we believe that when students have a strong sense of agency, starting with more commitment and a strengthened focus on their learning, a positive cycle of learning is generated. Students who are empowered to take ownership of their learning understand and contribute to the achievement of their learning goals, are invested in the assessment processes, and monitor their own learning and improvement.
Students are made aware of their learning goals each term and are given the opportunity to select, practice and assess their progress against goals within a ‘Student Agency’ session each fortnight.
Student Voice
In addition, empowering students to become partners in school decision making is recognition that students are knowledgeable experts in their lives. It acknowledges they can contribute to improving our school and wider school communities through their student voice.
At Harvest Home Primary school, we are focussed on creating the conditions, employing the practices, and developing the behaviours, dispositions, attitudes and learning environments that are advantageous to the expansion of student voice, agency, and leadership.
Buzz Leaders (Student Voice Team)
The Harvest Home Primary School ‘Buzz Leaders’ are a group of elected student leaders who engage in a range of activities that are aimed to promote the voice of their peers in school decision-making processes and activities.
Some events they have assisted in organising since our Buzz program commenced include:
The Buzz Leaders are students from Year 2 to Year 6. The wide range of students ensures the development of leadership, communication, and thinking skills, as well as ensuring that the wider school's student voice is heard and considered.
Within each year level from Year 2 – 5, students nominate for the position of Buzz Leader and their peers vote on their year level representative. This ensures that every student’s vote matters, so everyone can have a say about who they would like to represent their voice. This process ensures that student voice stays with the students themselves.
Harvest Home Primary School is committed to promoting the voice and agency of all our students across each part of the school to ensure that we are creating a respectful and collaborative school community through the lens of our students.
