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Welcome to Sir Joseph Banks High School.

We're a high school in southwest Sydney with approximately 700 students from many cultural backgrounds.

It is important for me to be involved with my learning plan as it acts as a mould for me of how I should learn and adapt to changes, and the teachers, especially since I'm in a wheelchair.

It also enforces my rights as a disabled student to get valued education at the same basis as other students.

When the school talk to me about my child they want to know what my child needs to improve his learning and I realised they are really looking after him.

They wanna know is my child involved in everything that he wants to be.

So, to me, the school supports him and makes him more involved in the programme, for the school programme.

I strongly believe that all students have the right to a quality learning experience at school.

I'm glad that my child's friends never had different opinion about him.

He was never alienated or made fun.

We value knowing our students and how they learn and we want the families to know that as well and to let them know and of course if they have any feedback they'd like us to pick up on or any recommendations to cater to their child's needs we take that onboard and we make sure we can deliver that message within our structures at school.

The school helps me to learn and participate by giving me the freedom of being myself.

Especially since I'm in a wheel chair, people think that I'm suffering or can't do stuff in result of me being in the wheel chair.

I am the captain for Sir Joseph Banks because I would love to be an advocate for students like myself with disabilities.

To let them know that nothing can stop us.

Especially our disabilities, that if we put our mindset to it we can achieve anything.