Braidwood Central School

Achievement for all

Telephone02 4842 2249

Emailbraidwood-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Our staff

Get to know our school staff. We're all here to help.

Our professional, university-educated teachers encourage students to develop a love of learning and a desire to succeed. They maintain the highest integrity and concern for your child’s wellbeing.

The principal is responsible for the educational leadership and management of our school. If you would like to speak to the principal, please contact us to make an appointment.

Our school administrative staff can answer inquiries or direct you to the appropriate staff member for help.

Stage Advisors

Stage advisors provide pastoral care for secondary students. Stage advisors meet regularly with members of the executive staff, including learning support. Together, they respond to welfare concerns and plan pro-active welfare activities. 

They encourage students to achieve to their personal best

Stage advisors encourage their year group to become involved in various aspects of school life. As advisors become familiar with their students they are able to look for opportunities to help students use their individual talents and skills to contribute to the school community. They encourage students to work together on projects and build team work skills.

In addition, year advisors track the overall academic progress of their students. This allows them to contribute to the process of placing students into their core classes and to offer advice to students in relation to subject choices.

They support and promote student welfare

Stage advisors are often the first point of contact for students who are experiencing difficulties. This could include:

  • bullying
  • conflict with parents
  • loss of a loved one, and 
  • health issues. 

Stage advisors can provide students with a range of strategies to help them cope with these stresses. They also help students to work with other staff such as the counsellor and the girls' advisor. They can work with a student's teachers to organise work when students are absent or require special consideration.

Students with ongoing behaviour issues are identified by year advisors and normally receive mentoring from their advisor. Stage advisors:

  • mentor students with ongoing behaviour issues
  • monitor student attendance
  • communicate interventions with parents
  • aim to work collaboratively to resolve issues

Organising extra-curricular activities

Stage advisors organise camps, excursions and incursions designed to build the social capacity of their stage group. These activities help students in the cohort to form bonds and learn to work together.

If you have a concern that you feel your child's stage advisor may be able to help you with, please contact the principal or deputy principal to organise an interview.