The Queensland Low SES National Partnership State Schools work in partnership with many non government organisations to further enhance the opportunities for students within their schools.
Ardoch Youth Foundation is a community funded, not for profit organisation working to make education a reality for young people, including those experiencing long-term and situational socioeconomic disadvantage. Ardoch understands that education provides the means for creating options and choices in life
Depending on individual school needs, Ardoch can provide various programs including breakfast clubs, literacy programs, basic needs drives, excursions and incursions and community involvement.
Ardoch has established an Education Support Centre in Brisbane and works in partnership with five schools including one early childhood centre, two primary schools and two high- schools.
Ardoch Brisbane harness support from corporate and businesses, local government, community volunteers and community groups who enjoy the chance to help children and young people to benefit from full participation education. Go to the Ardoch Youth Foundation website for further information
The Charitable Foundation for Books in Homes Australia partners with National Partnership Low Socio-economic Status Schools to provide the Books in Homes Programme, a whole-school literacy resource to help improve student outcomes. Students choose 9 books per year from Preview Packs. The books are colourful, highly visual, age appropriate, and written in Australian Standard English, with 25% written by Aboriginal authors. The books are selected by a committee of educators and Aboriginal representatives to ensure they are culturally appropriate. Books are handed out in community ceremonies and taken home to enjoy, developing the child's/carer's mutual engagement in reading and literacy. The Preview Packs are then donated to the Primary schools to build a reading legacy in the school community.
Since 2001, Books in Homes Australia has successfully delivered more than 1 million quality books of choice to over 300 schools and more than 42 community centres in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania. Go to the Books In Homes website for further information.
KidsMatter Primary is a flexible, whole-school approach to children's mental health and wellbeing for primary schools. It works both on its own and as an umbrella under which a school's existing programs can comfortably fit. KidsMatter provides the proven methods, tools and support to help schools, parents and carers, health services and the wider community nurture happy, balanced kids. There is strong evidence that KidsMatter also has benefits for children's learning. A number of Low SES NP schools have been among the first in Queensland to use the KidsMatter framework and resources. Go to the KidsMatter website for further information.
The Smith Family is a national, independent children's charity helping disadvantaged children and young people to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves.
Across Queensland, The Smith Family operates from many of the schools identified as Low SES NP schools. Through our Learning for Life program we provide long-term support for students attending these schools by providing financial assistance for their education essentials and access to mentoring and vital life skills programs.
Our support connects students and their families with their local community so they can access further learning opportunities and be encouraged to consider different career and study pathways available to them.
The Learning for Life program not only supports disadvantaged children but also their families who provide the crucial nurturing relationships and supportive learning environments that children need. By working with families as well, we help parents and carers develop new skills, which in turn helps them to encourage their children to fully participate in their education.
Go to the Smith Family website for further information.
The Song Room has delivered arts-based programs to disadvantaged schools for over 10 years, with significant growth over the past 5 years to now deliver programs to over 20,000 children every week across Australia. Programs are currently delivered in approximately 250 schools/communities each year across every State and Territory with an annual budget of $3.5 million, with the majority funded by non-government (corporate, philanthropic, individual) sources as well as an additional $1.5 million per annum in pro-bono support.
These programs include reaching approximately 3,000 Indigenous children in urban and remote settings each year, as well as other targeted disadvantaged school communities, including low socio-economic status, regional/remote and high non-English speaking backgrounds amongst other high needs.
In that period of growth, The Song Room has adopted and refined a model of program delivery that is targeted, long-term (minimum of six months per school, one day per week), tailored and innovative in its approach. A strong partnership approach to delivery is also a key component, as well as capacity-building to ensure that programs become self-sustainable wherever possible.
The Song Room has a significant Queensland presence and operation, investing in a range of targeted programs to disadvantaged schools and communities across urban, regional and remote Queensland since 2008, investing over $1million in developing and delivering more than 80 tailored workshop programs including.
For further information please visit the Song Room website.
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