Berwick, VIC
Principal Roger Page is extremely proud of the culture created and fostered at Nossal High School, said to be the first purpose-built co-educational academically selective school and described as “an adult, student-focused learning environment with fewer rules, greater freedoms, more responsibility, authentic student voice and participation”. Among its practices, Nossal has vertical pastoral groups, reducing artificial age-based barriers; team teaching and open-plan classrooms and offices, meaning everyone’s work is on display and visible to all; no rooms are locked and the library has no doors, meaning those resources are available to everyone at all times; digital delivery days, which allow students to work online from home in virtual classes run by their usual teachers; and, when it comes to staff recruitment, every Nossal teacher has been selected by an interview panel that includes two students.
Principal Roger Page is extremely proud of the culture created and fostered at Nossal High School, said to be the first purpose-built co-educational academically selective school and described as “an adult, student-focused learning environment with fewer rules, greater freedoms, more responsibility, authentic student voice and participation”. Among its practices, Nossal has vertical pastoral groups, reducing artificial age-based barriers; team teaching and open-plan classrooms and offices, meaning everyone’s work is on display and visible to all; no rooms are locked and the library has no doors, meaning those resources are available to everyone at all times; digital delivery days, which allow students to work online from home in virtual classes run by their usual teachers; and, when it comes to staff recruitment, every Nossal teacher has been selected by an interview panel that includes two students.