AUSTRALIND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBUSINESS PLAN 2017 -19

AUSTRALIND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL – BUSINESS PLAN 2017–2019 Growing Remarkable People

OUR VISIONTo grow remarkable people in a school community that is the first choice for those seeking excellence in teaching and learning in the South West region.

OUR MISSIONTo ensure a school culture that is inclusive of all, which promotes diversity, creativity and challenge allowing all to achieve their potential in the 21st Century.

OUR VALUESWe will demonstrate professionalism and service to our school community through: Transparency Inclusion Relevance Respect Accountability Collaboration Sustainability Integrity

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OUR MANDATESWe will: • Openly and proactively engage the school community as mutual partners in the growth of our school,and develop national and global partnerships to enrich student’s education.• Provide an inclusive and safe learning environment.• Promote a culture of innovation, intellectual challenge, excellence and life-long learning.• Rigorously review our school performance and use this information to develop and implement appropriate teaching and learning programmes and strategies.• Value every student and have a high expectation that they will significantly progress irrespective of their starting point.• Recognise the professionalism and expertise amongst our staff, support their development needs and base our decisions on sound research and exemplary teaching and practice.• Promote learning, allocate resources and nurture partnerships that prioritise healthy individuals, community and the environment to enrich our school community.

LEADERSHIP QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING – SCHOOL VISIONUse Connect to enhance engagement across Teacher, Student and Parent communicationsReporting to Parents (Achievement)FOCUS:• Student achievement and progress• Relationships

Barrie Bennett Project Quality Performance Management processes– Senior Teacher– Level 3 TeacherFOCUS:• Resourcing• Teaching• Learning environment

Classroom Management Strategies (CMS) Instructional Strategies Extension (ISE)Conferencing Accreditation Training (CAT)FOCUS:• Resourcing• Teaching• Learning environment

Moderation of teacher judgements against the standard ABE Data FOCUS:• Teaching• Learning environment

A positive learning environment through an explicit school wide values based ethosFOCUS:• Resourcing• Teaching• Learning environment

School culture of high standards and high expectations for self and othersFOCUS:• Relationships• Shared values

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PATHWAYS AND PARTNERSHIPS• Specialist Programs – Maths and Philosophy (MaP) – Jazz Music• Key Programmes – EXCEL Sports – Cadets (SES)• Vocational Education and Training pathways (various)• University pathways • UniReady pathway (Curtin) Links: Parent and Community, Business and Industry

INCLUSIVITY• Programme Coordinator – Inclusive Schooling• Meeting the needs of all students• Aboriginal Education• Lower School – Extension in all LA• Senior School – ATAR Extension and support – VET Extension and support• Education Support Unit

Jemma Farmer proudly posing with a photo of her great grandfather, Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer, in the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame

Maths in Motion World Finalists 2018

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LITERACY AND NUMERACY• Meeting the needs of all students• Learning Area targeted strategies in curriculum• Education Support

SCHOOL CULTURE AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT• Student Leadership• Health and Well-Being• Social and emotional support• Public relations and communication

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT• SEQTA – Pastoral Care and attendance to record and monitor student attendance and behaviour • Connect – enhance communications with parents • Increased access to new technologies in the school• BYOD across the school

LESCHENAULT ALLIANCE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LAPS)• Academic extension• Talent identification• Shared professional learning• Shared community vision• Partnership arrangements with both primary staff and parents through transition processes

Maths in Motion World Finalists 2018

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ACADEMIC TARGETS NON-ACADEMIC DATA FOR REVIEW

Lower School (Stable Cohort) Year 9

Senior School (Stable Cohort) Year 10-12

Community, Staff and Student Engagement

TARGET 1NAPLAN

Achievement Above State Like-Schoolsin Reading, Writing

and Numeracy

TARGET 2NAPLAN

Student Gain Above Australian Like-

Schools in Reading, Writing and Numeracy

TARGET 4Median ATAR

5 Points Above State Like-Schools

Aspirational – Top 50 Schools

TARGET 5Maintain Median ATAR Expected

PerformanceAbove 0.5

Student Engagement

Survey

Community Engagement

Survey

TARGET 3OLNA (Aggregated)

% Pre-qualified in Year 9 at least 5% above Like-Schools

TARGET 6OLNA

The percentage of students achieving OLNA across all areas tested are higher than Like-

School performance

TARGET 7WACE Achievement

At or Above 90%Teacher

Engagement Survey

Attendance

WHOLE SCHOOL STRATEGY – IMPLEMENTATION TARGETS

TARGET 8Barrie Bennett Programme

9 Instructional Intelligence Facilitators trained by the end of 2018 and a school based pilot

programme launched in 2019

TARGET9SEQTA Pastoral Care Module

Implementation All staff competent in the use of SEQTA

Pastoral Care Module by the end of 2019

TARGET 10Whole School Literacy and

Numeracy StrategiesAll staff engaged in delivering whole school Literacy (end of 2018) and Numeracy strategies (by the end of

2020)

MAKING THE LINKSTo be read in conjunction with the following documents: • Focus 2019 • School Prospectus • National School Improvement Tool (NSIT) • School Improvement and Accountability Framework • The Strategic Plan for WA Public Schools 2016 - 2019

Alan Mackay-Sim – Australian of the Year 2017Brother of our Jazz music teacher, Andrew Mackay-Sim