Our Impact
The NCESE partners are walking together towards a common vision: an inclusive and nurturing educational environment for all our students, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable young people in our community. Our short-term impacts are felt mostly by our students, their families and our partner schools, but in the medium and long term the benefits for the whole community are much greater, as school engagement is associated with many important positive outcomes later in life.
Testimonials - Project REAL
“My daughter is participating in the Project Real program within Banksia Gardens and I cannot praise all of the staff highly enough!”
“In my daughter’s words ‘Project Real and all the workers are so amazing’!”
“She was so excited to start and very impatient each day to get there.”
“From the first time we walked in the door every staff member from the office to the room had a smile and greeting.”
“Thank you so much to all the staff for being so awesome!”
“Most of all thank you so much for being so welcoming and supportive of our whole family.”
“I am so grateful to you all for the incredible work you do.”
“My daughter is finally feeling like she has people around her to help her navigate through and manage difficult situations.”
“Keep up the fantastic work to all within Banksia Gardens! :)” (Google Review)
Testimonials - NCESE Services
“Thank you to you and Seral for the two sessions on Monday and Friday and the prior work.”
“The learning was invaluable for our team to set up for success.”
“It was a great balance of theory and practice. The team walked away with lessons and strategies which could be implemented straight away. We also have all the resources. The connection between the presentation and our values and our direction was on point.”
“The school was very impressed with your presentation style adding humour and fun is important to us.”
“The pre meetings with your team were so valuable for us to share our narratives and what we need to implement to improve as a school.”
Case studies - NCESE partner schools
” Roxburgh Homestead is privileged to have a strong educational partnership with NCESE for the past four years. The support is tailored to our needs and based in mental health and trauma informed practices.
They have been instrumental in building our staff capacity in trauma informed practices and understanding and building mindfulness through the CARE program. They also provide a community of practice with leadership teams, across a number of schools, to explore effective structures, strategies and practices based on the child centred approach. In particular, they are in service to children and families experiencing trauma and expressing this through high deregulation and tier 3 behaviours. They wrap around the school, the child and the family to support self-regulation, and social skills to re-engage and reconnect with mainstream school environments and their demands. The work of Project Real has made all the difference in enabling our students to re-engage with school and build skills in self-regulation and reconnection with others. They fill a vital, missing piece, in mainstream educational practices, as they are responsive to the child and to their complex needs and support them in the context of school and home. We feel that at all levels of the school that our knowledge and practice of blending wellbeing and academic curricula deepened because of NCESE partnership and approach.”
Teresa Stone | Principal
Roxburgh Homestead PS
Case studies - NCESE partner schools
“Project Real has been a big support in helping our school make improvements to our whole school wellbeing scope and sequence and classroom wellbeing teaching and learning program. They have been instrumental in ensuring we are embedding core wellbeing practices across the school each day to support the development of connection and emotional regulation for all our students. They have provided the school with a vast number of resources we utilise to teach students how to regulate their emotions and understand the brain/body connection. They have also helped the school build upon the SWPBS practices already in place, and further develop staff capacity to respond to major and minor behaviours through a trauma informed lens, providing staff with tools and strategies they can put into practice immediately. Project Real have also supported the school through a variety of professional learning sessions for our teaching and education support staff. These sessions have focused on developing teacher/student relationships around the pillars of unconditional regard and being a safe adult. These professional learning sessions have helped build staff confidence and capacity to provide support to our most vulnerable students, ensuring school is a safe and supportive place for them. Alongside this, the support they have provided to the families directly engaged with Project Real has been invaluable. Helping our school build positive connections with the parents and students to ensure a continued engagement in school and support for all aspects of the student’ development. We are very grateful for the extensive supports provided by Project Real and the NCESE as a whole and look forward to growing our partnership into the future to bring about further positive changes within our school and broader community.”
Jacqueline Micallef| Leading Teacher – Wellbeing
Bethal Primary School
Testimonial - NCESE Conference
“Please accept my heartfelt thanks for the work that you and the team did in putting together such a fantastic conference last Friday. Every session was engaging and informative, and I can’t wait to receive the slides so that I can review and share with my colleagues.”
Monica Rigby | Senior Regional Pathways Officer – School Performance Division
Department of Education
Case studies - Community Forum
“We have received lots of positive feedback on the session, including one attendee describing the workshop as ‘very informative and applicable’ , and another who said it was ‘the most interesting’ session of the day.
Another attendee noted in particular that they ‘really enjoyed seeing how a program starts and finishes’ in your presentation. Your warm and energetic presentation style helped to make the session exciting and accessible to the wide range of attendees.”
Mikaelewa Amberber | MY Education Project Support Officer
Centre for Multicultural Youth
