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'New' Harristown school on a high
August 07, 2008
By Marion Raats
A WIND of change is blowing through the classrooms and playing fields of Harristown State High School.
After his first year in the job, principal Regan Neumann says the school is not the same as it was when he took over.
Back then, it was making news for all the wrong reasons. A big school with 1500 students and 200 staff, it had a chequered reputation and a tired, run-down appearance. Continuity of leadership was also a problem: Mr Neumann was the fifth principal penfield central school district the frontier high school year 12 students had had.
"We're in a different place now because we've consolidated on the basics and looked at what we want to achieve in the future," duke law school the high-energy, no-nonsense educator said.
Focusing on the basics includes a better physical suing school environment, fostering a sense of pride and putting the spotlight on students school shooting achieving the best possible results.
"We're focusing on the small things to get the big picture right and we're at a point where we're taking off," Mr Neumann said.
"We've cleaned up webster school district the rubbish lying around, refurbished classrooms with new desks, painted middle school scholarships inside and out and improved eating and toilet areas."
Students are also required to wear uniform properly. There's a new emphasis on handing in falk school drafts of assignments and doing homework. And there's a spotlight on spelling bees, in every subject, every day.
Not one to sit in his office much, Mr Neumann is highly visible. He spends an hour a day with students, making unannounced visits to old high school yearbooks classrooms and socialising in the grounds.
"The staff have got used to it and the kids respond well montebello high school to it," he said.
He works 60 to school cancellations 70 hours a week, constantly colorado high school athletic association building closer relationships with staff, students and parents, and is involved in soccer, volleyball wauwatosa west high school and debating.
In the past 12 months, Mr Neumann has also concentrated on developing four areas of learning. There is an lynnwood high school accelerated program for academic students, including more subjects and one university subject, as well as an accelerated industrial skills program which can give students three years of an apprenticeship by the end of year 12.
Next year, a Federal Government trade training centre will be built at the school at a cost of $1.3 million.
Historically strong in sport and the arts, the school has special pathways for gifted students to tap into Australian Institute of Sport and US college systems, as well as a full range of subjects in dance, music and the arts.
Students we spoke to said it was all starting to pay off.
"I feel better about being here; everything is on the way up," said one.
"The buildings look better and penn manor school district we've got a permanent principal. I'm more proud to be a Hawk."
For Mr Neumann, it's all about the kids.
"I love inspiring them to learn," he said.
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