Analysis

Doveton recorded a high level of participation across various services and activities in 2024. It had strong playgroup participation in targeted, supported and community-wide playgroup sessions. Parents surveyed at Doveton show high levels of confidence with 72% stating that they are extremely or very confident to help their children to learn. Doveton’s onsite governance group remains robust with partners strongly agreeing that governance meetings are well organised, partners feel informed to make decisions and have the skills and expertise to address the goals of the partnership.

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  • Increased enrolment: Doveton College continues to see an influx of new enrolments, mostly attributed to refugee family reunification program. There were more than 700+ enrolments at the start of the school year, with an additional 19 new families enrolling during Term 1.
  • Adult education: Adult English classes are well attended by more than 80 adults attending each week, with demand outweighing available places at Dandenong and Doveton locations. These adult English classes continue to be important pathways for warm referrals into wrap-around supports, including settlement playgroups.
  • Legal support for families: Our Place’s partnership with South-East Monash Legal commenced in Term 3 with a weekly in-person legal support onsite at Doveton College. In addition, Mission Australia-funded Legal Aid has been established onsite with opportunities for referrals and potential for additional support sessions based on demand.
  • Engagement and enrichment: The Lego Play Club has seen excellent uptake by parents and children. This activity fosters creativity and problem-solving skills, strengthens the parent-child bond and roles modelling what home learning could look like for parents.
  • Service coordination: Effective collaboration with the local neighbourhood house, kindergarten, and library is fostering a whole-community approach, reducing service overlap, and identifying gaps to better support families.
  • Supporting home learning environment: Early Years group working on collective projects such as Maternal and Child Health information sessions, trialling group Key Age and Stage appointments, PEEP Learning Together playgroup focusing on supporting parents with tips to try with their children at home.
  • Settlement support: Launch an initiative to connect families with a specialist family violence service which offers statewide support to women from migrant and refugee backgrounds. There will be collaborative work to respond to the rising need for Gender Equality among the CALD community.   
  • Adult engagement, training, skills and jobs: 2025 will see job ready workshops delivered at Doveton.  Employers from specific industries will be invited to run information sessions with families. For the first time post COVID lockdowns, digital literacy classes will return in 2025 through the Doveton Neighbourhood Learning Centre. 
  • Continuity of Learning: Our Place will work with the school and Berry Street Education Model to tailor information sessions for parents on self-regulation strategies the school uses and how parents can use similar strategies in the home environment.
3,942 playgroup child attendances in 2024* *Playgroup data: Data not available in some instances.
Parental confidence in 2024
How confident do you feel to help your child learn?
72% Extremely/very confident
25% Somewhat confident
3% Not very/not at all confident
Response rate: 36
Parental confidence levels at each site should be interpreted cautiously and with consideration of the survey sample size. The Parent Voice survey responses reflect the views of the parents engaged by Our Place to complete the survey but may not be representative of the wider school community.
Partnership health in 2023: 4.9/6
Average across all Our Place sites in 2023 is 4.9/6
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
 
 
 
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