Mornington Peninsula Foundation
A Mornington Peninsula where learning and opportunities are optimised for all children.
- Project: Western Port Learning Guarantee Project
- Amount: $650,000 over three years
- Year(s) Funded: 2023
Mornington Peninsula Foundation is a place-based community foundation with a vision to see opportunities and learning optimised for all children and young people.
The Foundation works locally, developing relationships with communities to understand systemic conditions that cause disadvantage. Their work focuses on systems change in education and family support, using an evidence-informed approach.
The Western Port Learning Guarantee (WPLG) program is a locally led community initiative aiming to reduce low rates of educational attainment and corresponding unemployment.
It brings together local secondary schools with feeder primary schools to deliver a shared commitment to evidence-based practice. Together with local community, support services and other wellbeing support is integrated into the program, building a cohesive network to ensure all children succeed in their education.
The WPLG cluster approach is holistic and means that ideas, resources, and a vision for the future of education and student/family wellbeing are shared. The secondary school, feeder primaries, preschools and community support services all working together, together with strong leadership from principals with a shared vision, has been integral to the positive outcomes of WPLG.
STEPHANIE EXTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, MORNINGTON PENINSULA FOUNDATION
”Program Snapshot
The Western Port Learning Guarantee program delivery includes:
A focus on instruction in oral language in preschools, and teaching literacy skills in the first three years of primary school using systematic synthetic phonics
Support for wellbeing of students and their families through the integration of local services including support for First Nations students from the local Aboriginal Community Healing Centre
Addressing high rates of early disengagement through delivery of evidence-informed trauma informed teaching practices