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 2011
Required information:
The school is Catholic. Our school has an established 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:
1.1 Religious Identity and Culture
2.6 Evaluation and Forward Planning
4.1 Professional Learning Community
4.3 Professional Practice
5.2 Partnerships
8.3 Monitoring and Self-review Processes
2008 – 2012 Internal School Review Schedule
GA Internal review Map 12
School review of the Strategic Action Plan for 2012
The school’s address:
Edmund Rice Drive, Ashmore 4214
Total enrolments:
774
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 2012
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.
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Professional Engagement
Qualifications of all teachers
Expenditure on teacher professional learning – $83,450
Average staff attendance for the school based on unplanned absences of sick and emergent leave for periods of up to 5 days – 96%
Proportion of teaching staff retained from the previous school year – 89%
Average student attendance rate – 94.6%