WHY A JUNIOR PHOENIX PASSPORT?
A Junior Phoenix Passport is a way for students to demonstrate their academic and social growth across a year. It is a framework that encourages students to engage in their own learning journey. For young adolescents engagement, resilience, and self-determination are vital skills required for life-long learning. These skills are explicitly taught through the Wellbeing Program and students are provided with opportunities to apply these skills in a range of contexts. The Junior Phoenix Passport forms part of respectful relationships education.
WHAT IS A JUNIOR PHOENIX PASSPORT?
The Phoenix Passport is part of a school-based junior schooling Pathways Program that rewards eligible students at the end of each year for successful completion of the program. The Phoenix Passport captures student growth across a calendar year. Whilst the certificate resets each year, there is an
acknowledgment at the end of 3 years in junior schooling to recognise continuous and outstanding growth. Students are rewarded with earning their 'wings'. To achieve their wings, students must successfully complete their Phoenix Passport in Year 7 and Year 8 and Year 9.
The Phoenix Passport has a focus on developing a wide range of learner-centred skills that are designed to foster growth and academic success in the junior years. Each year has focused inquiry questions to guide students through core learning whilst meeting student interests and career goals.
HOW THE JUNIOR PHOENIX PASSPORT WORKS
To be awarded the Junior Phoenix Passport, students will need to complete a significant amount of learning, at a set standard that includes core learning modules within Pathways lessons as well as meeting Effort targets in Pathways lessons. Students are required to fully participate in studentled
growth conferencing sessions with their Pathways teachers to set, track and monitor progress towards achieving their personalised learning goals.
Junior Phoenix Passport Handbook