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Last year Spring Valley P.S and Springvale West P.S went into co-governance and are now known as Spring Parks P.S - Valley Campus and West Campus. We are now a school of 450 with a very multi-cultural community with 80% of students coming from a non-English speaking background.

I work at Valley Campus and so far this year we have been very busy trying to build a purposeful community, a new shared school vision and shared values.

This year I am full time in the classroom teaching a grade 1/2 and I am still working on a plan for my school in terms of Literacy Coaching. The leadership team feel that there is already alot of change going on at our school as we preparing for our School Review and coping with all that is involved in co-governance, therefore, feel it would be best for me to wait until term 3 before beginning any coaching. The West Campus have a Literacy Coach this year so the leadership team plan on releasing me this term so that I can spend some time with her creating a plan, discussing my role, focus and what we hope to achieve.

I have really enjoyed the workshops, the readings, the presenters and especially found Day 2 and 3 very beneficial. Those two days helped answer some of my questions, anxieties and helped me to better understand the role of a Literacy Coach.

I also really enjoyed the coaching conversation triads as I learnt alot about questioning and I learnt alot from my collegues. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to network with so many wonderful teachers from all different schools from around Victoria and I have really valued the support, discussions and all that I have learnt from them.

I look forward to the next sessions

Kind regards

Dana