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Our Wantirna South campus provides a warm and welcoming local school community where students experience a sense of belonging and can develop the confidence and communication success needed to participate in any school or social environment. The community at Holy Trinity has a commitment to the TORCH values which underpin everything: Tolerance, Optimism, Respect, Confidence and Honesty.
Our Wantirna South campus offers a nurturing and individualised deaf and hard of hearing program delivered by Teachers of the Deaf who are passionately committed to student growth and learning in a setting that stimulates and lays the foundation for the fundamental knowledge, skills and behaviours required for many years of schooling success.
Each student’s weekly program is planned to enable them to fully participate in the school curriculum as offered through Holy Trinity while accessing St Mary’s College Expanded Learning Program (EXP).
St Mary’s employs Speech Pathologists who work on developing individual language and listening skills.
St Mary’s has adopted a positive approach to student wellbeing which underpins the spiritual, emotional, social, academic and physical growth of all students. Activities offered to strengthen wellbeing include St Mary’s College Positive behaviour for Learning (PBL) program and Student Wellbeing programs.
Our students feel a sense of belonging, connection and ownership at our Wantirna South Campus. It’s a place where they care and respect each other while reaching their potential.
St Mary’s students undertake EXP, a subject taken as part of each student’s timetable of year level subjects. The learning areas taught by the Teacher of the Deaf are decided with students and parents and based on the Expanded Core Curriculum for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, designed to support students in accessing and experiencing success in their core subjects. Areas taught may include literacy, expressive and receptive language, audition, speech or social-emotional learning. This subject offering is flexible and can vary from student to student and year to year, depending on subjects and wellbeing needs.
Program support group (PSG/SSG) meetings are held with parents each term as a way of monitoring student progress, receiving feedback and planning for future teaching and learning. In between meetings, we maintain regular phone and email contact with parents.
The Victorian Deaf Education Network offers membership to educational professionals who lead programs that specialise in teaching children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples.
Contact the Chair of VDEN