School Annual Reporting – 2009 School Year
The following information is provided to satisfy Queensland Government requirements regarding information that schools must now have readily available to the public.
Following is a checklist of the information, all of which relates to the school’s operations and outcomes in 2009
Required information:
The school is Catholic. Our school has a newly developed Mission Statement
Teacher Participation in Professional Learning
Feedback on parent, teacher and student satisfaction with the school – Each of the Validation Components reviewed this year contained survey information obtained from Staff, Students and Parents where appropriate. These components reviewed were:
1.3 Prayer and Worship
2.4 Assessment of Student Learning
2.5 Reporting Student Achievement
3.1 Learning Support
4.2 Staff Engagement
7.1 Budgeting and Finance
2008 – 2012 Internal School Review Schedule
Actions for 2009 aligned with the CEO School Renewal Components
School achievements relating to the Strategic Action Plan for 2009
The school’s address:
Edmund Rice Drive, Ashmore 4214
Total enrolments:
721
Year levels offered:
Prep – Year 7
The school is co-educational.
Distinctive curriculum offerings. Regular subjects do not need to be listed:
Extra-curricula activities. Descriptions of the activities should be provided, particularly those that involve a significant number of students:
Tennis Instruction
Music
Speech and Drama
Auskick
Audio-Visual Room
Staff development priorities for the year:
Refer to the School’s Goals 2009
The social climate of the school, including pastoral care programs:
Our school’s Life and Living Statement emphasises that we are a welcoming family school: a great place to grow!
The school has a warm, caring atmosphere that is welcoming to all members of the school community.
The school has a Patron Parents program that has, as part of its charter, the welcoming of new families to our school community.
Strategies used for involving parents in their child’s education:
National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy
Numeracy, Writing, Reading, Grammar & Punctuation and Spelling results for Years 3, 5 and 7:
These results do not include those student who were excluded from the NAPLAN tests because of an intellectual impairment.
Year 3 |
School Average |
State Average |
QLD % Above NMS |
School % Above NMS |
Numeracy |
385 |
372 |
92.3 |
96.6 |
Reading |
396 |
386 |
92 |
98.9 |
Writing |
378 |
395 |
93.9 |
91.9 |
Grammar and Punctuation |
396 |
394 |
89.5 |
96.6 |
Spelling |
383 |
376 |
88.9 |
98.9 |
Year 5 |
School Average |
State Average |
QLD % Above NMS |
School % Above NMS |
Numeracy |
476 |
470 |
94.8 |
95.7 |
Reading |
480 |
478 |
92.9 |
94.7 |
Writing |
492 |
466 |
91.3 |
94.7 |
Grammar and Punctuation |
492 |
486 |
89.6 |
92.6 |
Spelling |
465 |
466 |
89.9 |
94.7 |
Year 7 |
School Average |
State Average |
QLD % Above NMS |
School % Above NMS |
Numeracy |
552 |
539 |
94.8 |
100 |
Reading |
546 |
533 |
92.9 |
100 |
Writing |
548 |
525 |
91.3 |
97.7 |
Grammar and Punctuation |
560 |
534 |
91.0 |
100 |
Spelling |
553 |
533 |
92.0 |
100 |
Professional Engagement
Qualifications of all teachers
Expenditure on teacher professional learning – $52,108
Average staff attendance for the school based on unplanned absences of sick and emergent leave for periods of up to 5 days 97.04%
Proportion of teaching staff retained from the previous school year 92%
Average student attendance rate 94%