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DIOCESE OF TOWNSVILLE SCHOOL REPORTING - 2018
St Benedict’s Catholic School, Shaw
Address
890 Dalrymple Road,
SHAW QLD 4818
Postal address
PO Box 7037,
Garbutt QLD 4814
Phone
(07) 4413 2400
Email [email protected]
Webpages
School Website: www.stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au
Additional information is available via the My School website: www.myschool.edu.au
Contact Person
Mrs Penny Collins (Principal)
Principal’s foreword Introduction
St Benedict’s provides an exciting opportunity to be part of the establishment of a new learning community, exploring contemporary directions for learning in primary schools and working collaboratively to develop and enact our vision. We believe that every student has God given gifts for success and these flourish in an innovative learning culture. At St Benedict’s we believe in providing a
differentiated approach to learning that both supports and challenges our students within a flexible learning environment.
We are building our school charism and school values with consideration of our Patron Saint, St Benedict, whose contemplative spirituality, his thinking about the future of the church and his directions for building community within the church, provide a valuable foundation for our school.
Benedictine spirituality is the foundation of the meditation prayer life which all Catholic schools across our Diocese practise. We believe meditation builds community and St Benedict shows us the way of community.
Our school is blessed to be part of the Catholic Parish known as the Ministerial Region of the Good Shepherd, currently led by Fr Dave Lancini.
School Renewal, Strategic Planning and Annual School Improvement The Characteristics of Effective Catholic Schools is the guiding document of the TCEO schools linking the processes of planning, implementation and review for the purpose of enhancing the quality and effectiveness of Catholic Schools. Through the Characteristics of Effective Catholic Schools each school can monitor its effectiveness, focus on strategies for improvement and fulfil its accountability responsibilities to various entities.
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Mission and Purpose
● Promote vision and mission to develop our profile in the wider community.
● To grow the school from K to 6 and develop an ethos of high expectations and a commitment to student engagement and excellence.
● Develop the Catholic identity of our school through strategic development of our contemplative spirituality and our Benedictine charism.
● Develop our school as a response to the recommendations arising from the Vatican conference on Educating Today and Tomorrow.
● Identify and develop opportunities for key school/community partnerships including the indigenous community and the parish for the purpose of engaging students in valuable experiences and for building our school community.
● Actively participate in Plenary 2020 sessions and discussions about the religious life of the country through school and parish.
● Develop a school-based Community Engagement Framework that details a model for how faith partnerships, communication, community collaboration, decision making, learning partnerships and participation opportunities will be fostered.
Climate Conducive to Learning
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● Build a culture that promotes wellbeing for staff and students by
establishing appropriate behaviours and expectations. ● Promote the development of a reflective practice culture for all members
of the school staff to inform professional learning. ● Enact the school based and TCEO Reconciliation Action Plans ● Ensure actions relating to relevant TCE Position Statements occur in a
planned and cohesive manner. ● To be responsive to the report delivered by the Royal Commission into
institutional child abuse. ● Create contemporary indoor and outdoor learning spaces that consider
student needs and maximize learning experiences for all students especially in the context of a growing K to 6 school.
● Actively work to cater for the diversity of learning needs of all students through respect, recognition, flexible learning space design and inclusive practices to meet these needs whilst using a 21st Century approach.
● Provide leadership and resourcing in areas which contribute to improvement in the wellbeing of staff and students.
● Develop a School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP) in response to environment and sustainability goals as envisioned in Laudato Si.
● Identify meaningful and purposeful data that informs and enhances teaching and learning practices from year to year.
● Build the capacity of staff to use data across and within year levels to analyse student achievement and inform planning of an inclusive differentiated curriculum.
● Develop capability to enable teachers to effectively use student learning data, to impact student outcomes and track student growth purposefully and in a timely manner.
Emphasis on Learning
● Deliver high quality inclusive curriculum through learning and teaching that supports students to become engaged, creative, capable learners.
● Clearly articulate and implement best practice pedagogy in the Early Years with an effort to develop the foundational skills of Literacy and Numeracy and monitor student growth achievement.
● Work in partnership with parents, teachers and students to set accessible learning goals, monitor learning progress and celebrate success.
● Develop programs that provide opportunity for explicit learning in curriculum areas and cross curricular experience in integrated or purposely connected ways that consider Inquiry Based Learning, Design Thinking, or Project Based Learning concepts.
● Place on high priority on ongoing professional learning for all staff and on the development of a school-wide, self-reflective culture focused on improving teaching.
● To engage teachers in fulfilling the role of the teacher as set out in our TCEO AITSL aligned Position Description.
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School Profile
System: Catholic Education (Diocese of Townsville)
Coeducational or single sex: Coeducational
Year levels offered: Prep – Year 6
Total student enrolments for this school:
Total Enrolment Girls Boys
162 79 83
Characteristics of the student body:
Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 6 Year 6 Total Total
M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F 162
47 26 13 12 7 16 10 6 3 8 5 5 2 2 83 79
73 25 23 16 11 10 4 162
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Curriculum offerings Our Learning Enrichment programme targets students of varying abilities and interests. A Learning Enrichment teacher challenges students by focussing on the application of the skills already attained in various subject areas. Initiatives which contribute to our school culture include: A Student Engagement Plan
Learning & Teaching- At St Benedict's Catholic School, traditional and contemporary approaches to learning will be used to actively engage our students in the learning process. Our curriculum program and teaching strategies will incorporate opportunities appropriate to the development needs of each learning stage, including play in the early years, hands on experiences, community engagement and opportunities to apply academic knowledge as learning progresses. Active Responsible Community- At St Benedict’s Catholic School we seek to live the Christian values of love and trust of one another and of respect for all of God’s creation. Through Jesus, as our role model for how we should live and act towards each other, we believe that:
● everyone has the right to be treated with respect and to live in safety; ● the establishment of a happy and safe environment is the shared
responsibility of all staff, parents, carers and students; ● children learn essential social skills, such as self-discipline and
conflict management best when modelled by significant adults such as parents and teachers;
● as each child is made in the image and likeness of God and brings their own unique experiences and gifts to school, levels of social skills will vary;
● clearly defined rights and responsibilities allow all members of the school community to promote ownership by all;
● action taken to resolve conflict is based on respect, forgiveness and justice.
We work to maintain a happy and supportive environment that maximizes learning experiences and develops skills that enable each student to contribute positively to the school community.
Wellbeing A core component for successful Student Engagement is Wellbeing. Student resilience and wellbeing are essential for both academic and social development, and are optimised by safe, supportive and respectful learning environments. Schools share this responsibility with the whole community. At St Benedict's we draw on a range of resources to develop Well being in our community.
eProjects
At St Benedict’s we believe that some learning is best done with a hands on inquiry based approach where students are engaged in projects. The ‘e’ in eProjects stands for Environment, Engagement and Educational, While we still develop our learning experiences based on the expectations of the Australian Curriculum, we use the eProjects concept to draw on certain aspects of some subjects together to create a deeper more enriched learning experience.
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Typically, this can be called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or STREAM (which adds Reading or Religion and the Arts) but we have preferred to develop our own name so we can be more flexible and maintain the integrity of subject areas. Specifically we have applied concepts from the Australian Curriculum that promote learning about Stewardship, Sustainability and Creation (from Religion Curriculum) to at least one long year level project per grade. Different year levels draw on different subject areas for their projects.
Camps and Excursions At St Benedict’s, we believe that hands on immersion experiences are a great source of learning and therefore each year level will participate in at least two excursions per year and a camp from Year 4. Excursions include visiting places like shopping centres, farms, parks, Reef HQ, theatres, churches, Billabong Sanctuary and wetlands to name just a few opportunities. Camps will involve a focus on the year level eProject but will also include opportunities for personal and spiritual development. Sport In addition to our PE program, St Benedict’s offers opportunities for participation in a variety of skill development programs during ‘Friday Sport’, often sourcing the expertise from the wider community. St Benedict’s students can also qualify for regional competitions from Year 2 through our Cross Country, Athletics and Swimming Carnivals as well as access trials for other representative sports once they are in Year 5.
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How Information and Communication Technologies are used to assist learning Information and Communication Technologies are incorporated into all aspects of the school environment through the use of iPads, Interactive Whiteboards and laptops, and Chromebooks:
● To enhance pedagogy and learning ● As a creative tool ● To improve communication and collaboration ● To manage, store and retrieve information/data
Social climate
You Can Do It Zones of Regulation Seasons for Growth Program Learning Support Network co-ordinated by a Learning Enrichment Teacher Circle Time (Social and Emotional Development) Guidance Counsellor services provided by the Catholic Education Office Parish support for school-community members Working with parish community to offer sacramental programs Parents & Friends Association involvement Strategies/programs used to respond to bullying include:
• Centacare programmes (Buddies and Keeping Your Cool) • Life Education Van • Child Safety Week (Day for Daniel) • School Safe Person • National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
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Parent, student and teacher satisfaction with the school The parent and teacher satisfaction results are gathered using voluntary participation in a radii survey.
Performance measure Result 2018
Percentage of parents satisfied with their child/ren’s progress at this school 91.4%
Percentage of Year 5 – Year 6 students satisfied with their learning at this school 78.6%
Percentage of teachers satisfied that this school provides educational programs that enable students to learn 100%
Percentage of teachers satisfied with the educational progress of students at this school 100%
Involving parents in their child’s education Regular P&F meetings Parent volunteers in classrooms Parents invited to assemblies, class and school activities Weekly school newsletters Ongoing process of consultation to assess community opinions Social gatherings Weekly assemblies Parent Information nights Parent/Teacher meeting and reporting Involvement in the Sacramental programme
Reducing the school’s environmental footprint
Use of an environmental audit and attention to its recommendations is included in the renewal cycle which is part of the life of TCEO schools. The school has also installed solar panels onto its Administration building. In partnership with the Townsville Catholic Education Office, St Benedict’s has been awarded a 6 Greenstar rating for its design and build and continue to build these concepts into their eProjects that promote environmental awareness and sustainability across the school.
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School Finances For school income broken down by funding source: please refer to My School – School Finances
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Staff composition, including Indigenous staff Workforce Composition Teaching Staff Non-teaching Staff Indigenous Staff
Headcounts 12 13 1
Full-time equivalents 10.17 6.7 .44
Qualifications of all teachers
Qualifications Number of Teachers and School leaders
Percentage of teachers and school leaders
Masters 1 8.3%
Bachelor Degree 11 91.7%
Total 12 1005
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Expenditure on and teacher participation in professional development
The total funds expended on teacher professional development in 2018 was $5,443. The major professional development initiatives for 2018 are as follows:
TCEO Staff Compliance PD 2018 TCEO Induction - 2018 Theology of the Human Person Literacy in Contemporary Classroom Australian Curriculum - HPE Numeracy in Contemporary Classroom Community Engagement Going Deeper - Contemplative Practices Compass Training and Green Star Student Protection Training Townsville Leading with Integrity for Excellence LWIE APRE Conference Introduction to Christian Meditation 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Ethel Creek Retreat CUED Articulation Inservice Autism Spectrum Disorder Inservice - Primary Teachers Hearing Impairment Inservice Curriculum Network Meeting - TERM 1 Safe Persons Training 2018 Collaborating for Success Network of Indigenous Education Support Workers (NIEW Day)
The involvement of the teaching staff in professional development activities during 2018 was 100%.
Average staff attendance For permanent and temporary teaching staff and school leaders, the staff attendance rate was 95.8% in 2018.
Proportion of staff retained from the previous school year St Benedict’s was a new school in 2018
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Key student outcomes
Attendance
Student attendance - 2018 The average attendance rate for the whole school as a percentage in 2018 was 93.7%.
Student attendance for each year level
Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
94.1% 92.3% 93.2% 91.6% 94.0% 95.3% 95.2%
Description of how non-attendance is managed by the school The school contacts the parents/guardians of each unexplained absence on the morning that the student is absent. A letter or phone call is made to the parent/guardians of those students who are regularly absent from school.
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Achievement – Years 3 and 5. National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results – our reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy results for the Years 3 and 5. NAPLAN results are also available from My School website
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