Impact Community ACADEMY (ICA) provides equal access to quality education and wellbeing support to ensure all our young people reach their full potential. We place equal value on a wellbeing approach to education, ensuring that young people are ready and able to achieve educational success.
Our staff are skilled in using a trauma-informed lens that embraces positive regard and restorative practices. Our approach is committed to developing trusting relationships and repairing relational ruptures through restorative practice. These principles are woven into our daily operations through our Wellbeing model.
ICA believes that all young people have the right to access high-quality education. Our flexible teaching enables us to provide targeted support and programs in areas such as learning, behaviour, regulation, and mental health. This includes supporting students with learning difficulties and barriers, to help them succeed in education.
At Impact Community ACADEMY, we have no more than 18 students in a class, each assigned to one classroom teacher.
Impact Community ACADEMY aim to have one teacher and one Education Support Worker in every classroom. As part of our educational approach, all students are provided with individualised support for their learning.
As part of our wellbeing approach, we have dedicated support outside the classroom to assist with support plans, regulation strategies, referrals, advocacy, and offering a listening ear, ensuring students' wellbeing comes first.
A Student Support Meeting is a partnership between all key supports for the young person: parents/guardians, the school/classroom teacher, and any relevant agencies involved with the student. Other attendees could include the Principal, Education Support Worker, Youth Worker, or a representative from the student's previous school.
The group works together to plan and support the educational, health, social, cultural, and emotional wellbeing of the student.
To ensure all of our students are ready and able to learn, Impact Community Academy also provides: