It is with great sadness that we temporarily farewell one of our Education Assistants, Angela Ord. Angela's calm, patient, generous, thoughtful and highly professional nature has impacted staff and students alike. She started at Belridge as a relief EA, and we quickly added her to our EA team. Her knowledge of disability is expansive, and she is always willing to upskill herself, attending Professional Learning opportunities on a regular basis and sharing her gained expertise upon her return. Angela has worked with students from Year 7 through to Year 12, with a range of disability and learning difference. She has put herself forward for diverse and challenging opportunities, spending time collating data, creating resources, revising planning and establishing monitoring systems for some of our most vulnerable young people. She has recently joined our MACQLIT group where she's been delivering intensive literacy remediation to a number of Year 8 students. Angela is a valuable member of our Inclusive Education Team, and she will be dearly missed by the Belridge community. 

Angela, we thank you for your outstanding commitment to delivering successful learning outcomes for BSC students, and for your collegiality amongst BSC staff.

Mikaela Shirley
Inclusive Education Coordinator

Staff Retirements 

Although the following staff members have been on leave and not been visible across the school recently, we wish to acknowledge the following retirements this term. 

Collectively between these 3 staff members they have worked in teaching and for the Department of Education for an incredible total of 124 years of service!

Rob Strickland - Vice Principal 
46 years - 26 years service at Belridge SC

Sylvia Henley - Teacher of English 
37 years and 7 months - 30 years service at Belridge SC

Carolyn Wright - Teacher of Arts
40 years and 10 months - 18 years service at Belridge SC

On behalf of staff, students, parents and the school community we thank you most sincerely for your long standing contribution and service to the education of students in Western Australian public schools and wish you all the very best to you and your families during your retirements.