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Wilsons Creek Public SchoolAnnual Report

2016

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Printed on: 8 May, 2017 of 12 Wilsons Creek Public School 3454 (2016)

Introduction

The Annual Report for 2016 is provided to the community of Wilsons Creek Public School – Beacon of the Valley as anaccount of the school's operations and achievements throughout the year.

It provides a detailed account of the progress the school has made to provide high quality educational opportunities forall students, as set out in the school plan. It outlines the findings from self–assessment that reflect the impact of keyschool strategies for improved learning and the benefit to all students from the expenditure of resources, including equityfunding.

While learning is at the heart of everything we do at this school, learning must be fun!

Our school is moving ahead with a creative and flexible approach to learning. The benefits of this approach os beingreflected in an improving level of student engagement, learning and achievement.

As often noted, it takes a community to raise a child. The tireless work of our Parents and Citizens Committee is apositive example of working with a community to help every child grow and achieve.

Congratulations to our hard working staff and supporting parents and members of the wider school community.

Thank you

Wil Constable

Principal

School contact details

Wilsons Creek Public SchoolWilsons Creek RdMullumbimby, 2482www.wilsonscrk-p.schools.nsw.edu.auwilsonscrk-p.School@det.nsw.edu.au6684 0132


School background

School vision statement

Wilsons Creek Public School is mid–place in a transition of long–term staff into retirement. New staff are developing skillsin meeting this transition. The collaboration with the VOSS is an important part of our development cycle. The sharedlearning and development activities develop in staff, as wider and more accurate view of expected student outcomesmeasured against the national curriculum. Students learn in an environment that values creativity, critical thinking,self–motivation, communication, collaboration and innovation. Student growth is supported by providing diverse,engaging and challenging learning, in a caring, safe and accepting environment so that each student is able to achievehis or her full potential.

School context

Our school is a small school with a long history of providing quality education to the students from the local area. Theschool population continues to change because of stable demographics of the area, rising land values, deficient andnarrow bus transport to access the school and families who continue to explore various school environments for theirchild. Students come from culturally diverse backgrounds including farming, small business, professional and tradespeople, single parent families, and families from overseas who share a common commitment to a small school educationfor their children. Many families enjoy travelling the world and this presents challenges to ensure student learningcontinues.Our school offers our students and staff a variety of VOSS learning, sporting and cultural opportunities, with astrong literacy and numeracy focus.

Self-assessment and school achievement

Self-assessment using the School Excellence Framework

For all schools (except those participating in external validation processes):

This section of the Annual Report outlines the findings from self–assessment using the School Excellence Framework,school achievements and the next steps to be pursued.

This year, our school undertook self–assessment using the School Excellence Framework. The framework supportspublic schools throughout NSW in the pursuit of excellence by providing a clear description of high quality practiceacross the three domains of Learning, Teaching and Leading.

Our School regularly uses the Framework to identify areas of improvement and areas of strong performance. This haslead to a directed focus in key learning areas. Every student has been matched to an individual learning plan. Wehave employed an extra Support Learning Teacher to ensure students not achieving National Benchmarks accessand achieve improved learning outcomes.

Our self–assessment process will assist the school to refine the strategic priorities in our School Plan, leading to furtherimprovements in the delivery of education to our students.

For more information about the School Excellence Framework:

http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about–the–department/our–reforms/school–excellence–framework


Strategic Direction 1

Creative Beings in our Community.

Purpose

To foster the delivery of a high standard Creative and Performing Arts program in the school, recognising and utilisingthe skills of members of our community.

Overall summary of progress

The Creative Beings Progress has been an outstanding success in many forms. It has improved attendance levels,engaged students in learning and is improving student outcomes.

Progress towards achieving improvement measures

Improvement measures(to be achieved over 3 years)

Progress achieved this year Funds Expended(Resources)

Teachers will manage a CreativeBeing Program and inconjunction with the CreativeBeing Tutor will: • Develop a program ofinstruction that will engagestudents* • Liaise and mentor a member ofthe community in the delivery ofthe program. • Be involved in parentworkshops to increase parentunderstanding of the learningprocesses to be implemented • Begin linking everyday creativeprocesses with teachingprograms.

The Program is running very well. Students areengaged in learning and attendance is improving.This learning is driving the academic achievementof students in Literacy and Numeracy.

$5000.00

At the end of the year all studentswill have created a range ofobjects and demonstrated newskills in speaking a new languageand will have planned, plantedand cooked what they havegrown in our garden.

Students have participated in learning programs,linked to the curriculum, but in an engaging mannerthat has seen positive development ofachievements.

$5000.00

Next Steps

The Creative Beings program will be extended to offer places to individuals across the school community. Moreimportantly, Creative Beings are linking their programs to explicit curriculum outcomes to ensure the school is presentingstudents with an opportunity to engage with all areas of the curriculum.



Connect, working together.

Purpose

Provide all staff with an opportunity to identify understand and implement effective teaching practices focusing onevidence–based data. Through VOSS collaboration teachers will improve student learning by developing, across stagelearning and assessment activities that will be measured against the syllabus outcomes and the literacy continuum


The timing of VOSS staff meetings have meant that our staff have not fully engaged in this learning. There has been achange in some directions of the Plan that was developed that has made the implementation of the Direction moredifficult.




All schools plot studentachievement using the writingcontinuums to establish VOSSbaseline data.Staff will create onerubric per stage per term andmeasure and assess a writingsample

Due to the timing of VOSS staff meeting, it hashampered our participation in VOSS meetings.

The use of the marking rubrics is presenting a moreconsistent approach to assessing studentachievement.

$2535.74

Next Steps

To refine the Direction following staff reviews of the current process. This is being undertaken at present.



Lead – Building Leaders

Purpose

Building leadership capacity across the four strategic areas of literacy, numeracy, teacher standards and innovativepractices will enable leaders to deliver quality essential learning for all teachers and students in schools within thelearning community


The team working on this Direction have prepared a detailed presentation be shared with the VOSS. At this time it is yetto be presented due to circumstances beyond the control of staff.




Establishment of an effective andsustainable framework fortracking the delivery andevaluation of the four VOSSproject portfolios.Project leaderswill identify and deliver at leastone end desired product andpractice as part of an action plan.

The Leadership team has worked to develop apresentation explaining the new standards andaccreditation system. This is due to be presented tothe VOSS in the near future.

$2132.90

Next Steps

To ensure the presentation is delivered as per the Direction. This will occur in 2017.


Key Initiatives Impact achieved this year Resources (annual)

Aboriginal background loading We have conducted a number of culturalprograms, under our Creative Being Program.This has resulted in: a plaque of recognitionbeing installed in the school and a schoolcultural performance

$4996.62

English language proficiency We have employed an SLSO to supportstudents with low levels of Englishunderstanding. We also have employed anLanguage tutor to support the transition ofstudents with a language background otherthan English.

$9185.75

Low level adjustment for disability We have employed an SLSO to supportstudents with low levels of achievement. ThisSLSO works with identified students 2 hoursper week to support and raise their levels ofachievement.

$4275.00

Quality Teaching, SuccessfulStudents (QTSS)

Due to the small funding of this program wehave use the 1 hour per week to supportpeer observations.

$400

Socio–economic background These funds have been used to support theCreative Beings Program to encouragestudents to engage and learn in differentways.

$3943.40


Student information

Student enrolment profile

Enrolments

Students 2013 2014 2015 2016

Boys 26 23 26 33

Girls 38 27 28 24

Our school enrolment reflects the trend of familiesbeing drawn to non–government schools who, in thebelief of families, cater for students with a greaterinterest in arts and craft.

Student attendance profile

School

Year 2013 2014 2015 2016

K 85.1 90.2 91.5 78.5

1 84.4 94.8 90.3 86.2

2 86.5 94.1 86.1 90.5

3 75.4 86.9 92.6 85.7

4 88.8 92 90.1 89

5 73.4 91.5 91 91.1

6 89.2 95.7 91.9 86.8

All Years 84 92.2 90.7 87.1

State DoE

Year 2013 2014 2015 2016

K 95 95.2 94.4 94.4

1 94.5 94.7 93.8 93.9

2 94.7 94.9 94 94.1

3 94.8 95 94.1 94.2

4 94.7 94.9 94 93.9

5 94.5 94.8 94 93.9

6 94.1 94.2 93.5 93.4

All Years 94.7 94.8 94 94

Management of non-attendance

Families are reminded in weekly newsletter commentsand suggestions. Student who fail to attendconsistently are referred to the Home School LiaisonProgram. The school is directly contacting families toseek reasons why absences have occurred andreminding families of the need to attend school.


Workforce information

Workforce composition

Position FTE*

Principal 1

Classroom Teacher(s) 2.29

Learning and Support Teacher(s) 0.1

Teacher Librarian 0.17

School Administration & SupportStaff

1.41

Other Positions 0.02

*Full Time Equivalent


Our school is staffed by teachers with a teachingdegree, at minimum. Community tutors that work in ourschool are supervised by school staff.

Teacher qualifications

All teaching staff meet the professional requirementsfor teaching in NSW public schools.


Teacher qualifications

Qualifications % of staff

Undergraduate degree or diploma 5

Postgraduate degree 1

Professional learning and teacher accreditation

All staff are current with mandated accreditation underNESA. Staff are training in the TOWN (Taking off withNumeracy Program) and the L3 ( Learning, Literacyand language Year 1) Program. In–school professionallearning tasks are driven by staff developed PersonalDevelopment Plans.

Financial information (for schoolsusing OASIS for the whole year)

Financial information

This summary financial information covers funds foroperating costs to December 2016 and does notinvolve expenditure areas such as permanent salaries,building and major maintenance.

Income $

Balance brought forward 33 072.80

Global funds 70 947.75

Tied funds 38 626.71

School & community sources 24 715.56

Interest 1 017.53

Trust receipts 6 556.20

Canteen 0.00

Total income 174 936.55

Expenditure

Teaching & learning

Key learning areas 14 139.96

Excursions 17 173.59

Extracurricular dissections 19 820.00

Library 0.00

Training & development 0.00

Tied funds 36 649.37

Short term relief 15 063.93

Administration & office 32 015.93

School-operated canteen 0.00

Utilities 8 270.79

Maintenance 9 898.73

Trust accounts 6 556.20

Capital programs 0.00

Total expenditure 159 588.50

Balance carried forward 15 348.05

A full copy of the school’s financial statement is tabledat the annual general meetings of the parent and/orcommunity groups. Further details concerning thestatement can be obtained by contacting the school.


School performance

NAPLAN

In the National Assessment Program, the results acrossthe Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 literacy andnumeracy assessments are reported on a scale fromBand 1 to Band 10. The achievement scalerepresents increasing levels of skillsand understandings demonstrated in theseassessments.

This school has a cohort of less than 10 in both years 3and 5.

The My School website provides detailedinformation and data for national literacy and numeracytesting. Click on the link http://www.myschool.edu.auand insert the school name in the Find a school andselect GO to access the school data.

Our school has developed Individual Learning Plans forevery student. A Support Learning Teacher has beenemployed to work on students who are not meetingNational Benchmarks. Students are assessed inLiteracy and Numeracy every 5–weeks and measuredagainst the National Benchmarks. This has given staffas clear and direct position on the need to differentiatelearning to meet the needs of students.

Parent/caregiver, student, teachersatisfaction

The school regularly surveys students, staff andfamilies. The students are very pleased and enjoy theCreative Beings program, while some members of theparent community are commenced that more timeshould be spent in school and not participate in othernon–school based activates such as sporting andcultural excursions. This reflects the delicate balance oflearning and school management that is required in thisSmall School.


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