School Strategic Plan Meredith Primary School 1420 2016-2019 Endorsements Endorsement by School Principal Signed………………………………………. Name…………………………………………. Date…………………………………………… Endorsement by School Council Signed………………………………………. Name…………………………………………. Date…………………………………………… School Council President’s endorsement represents endorsement of School Strategic Plan by School Council Endorsement by the delegate of the Secretary Signed………………………………………. Name…………………………………………. Date……………………………………………
Strategic Direction Key Improvement Strategies Targets Achievement To maximise the learning growth in Literacy and Numeracy for every student. Build the capacity of every teacher so that there is high quality and consistent practice across the school Refine assessment practices to ensure consistent teacher judgments and the collective monitoring of students and student cohorts. Develop guaranteed and viable curriculum, proficiency scale and common assessment task documents for discipline domains that support differentiated teaching and personalised learning, ensuring challenge and progress for every student. . Grade 5 NAPLAN relative growth goals: To increase the percentage of students demonstrating medium and high growth and reduce the percentage of students demonstrating low growth from the 2014 levels of Spelling (L: 42%, M: 42% H: 16%), Writing (L: 33%, M: 58% H: 8%) and Grammar & Punctuation (L: 42%, M: 33% H: 25%) by the end of the 2018 NAPLAN. Teacher judgement AusVELS goals: To achieve a mean of 90% of students achieving at or above the expected AusVELS level in Writing, Reading and Mathematics (Number) over the four year period. To achieve a mean of 90% of students to achieve at or above expected level in the full range of curriculum domains in AusVELS throughout the 4 year period. To achieve a mean of 10% of students achieving a learning growth of more than one year their previous baseline standard in AusVELS Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Number). To achieve a mean of students who do not achieve 12 months growth (excluding PSG students) to 10% in the areas of AusVELS Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Number) Engagement Increase opportunities for higher levels of student cognitive engagement, challenge, self-directed inquiry and deep thinking. Fully leverage the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) across and between all levels using both existing and new technologies to enhance, stimulate and engage students in their learning. Develop and refine current personalised learning practises for students to stimulate To maintain and improve Attitudes to School survey data from the baseline year 2014 in the areas of: Student motivation (4.57) & Learning confidence (4.10) To maintain and improve Attitudes to School survey data from the baseline year 2014 in the areas of: School connectedness (4.79)
Develop guaranteed and viable curriculum document for Mathematics Develop pacing guide for Mathematics for year, term and week Develop proficiency scales for Mathematics Develop common assessment tasks for Mathematics for all year levels Mathematics proficiency scales developed Mathematics common assessment tasks created and in use Year 3 Review and refine school assessment schedule Implement Big Write and VCOP plan Expand Professional Learning Community initiative Develop guaranteed and viable curriculum document for Reading Develop pacing guide for Reading for year, term and week Develop proficiency scales for Reading Develop common assessment tasks for Mathematics for all year levels Implement learning cycles for Reading Assessment schedule reviewed & refined Big Write/VCOP plan evident in teacher curriculum documentation and observable in classrooms Guaranteed viable curriculum reading document developed Reading pacing developed Reading proficiency scales developed Reading common assessment created and in use Year 4 Year of review Engagement Fully leverage the use of ICT across and between all levels using both existing and new technologies to enhance, stimulate and engage students in their learning. Develop and refine current personalised learning practises for students to stimulate interest, curiosity, promote questioning and connect learning to the real world. Ensure high quality transition processes across year levels through the use of evidence and data Year 1 personalised and differentiated teaching strategies and practices across the school Review and investigate ways to refine ‘Investigations’ & ‘iLearning’ programs Create eLearning co-ordinator position of responsibility Develop end of year student transition documentation Develop Foundation transition survey and implement it Audit completed and current practice documented Review completed and recommendations developed via staff forums and documented Develop eLearning co-ordinator position of responsibility documents Transition document created Transition survey developed Year 2 Experiment with ways to enhance personalised and differentiated teaching strategies and practices across the school Implement refinements to ‘Investigations’ & ‘iLearning’ programs Refinements/new personalised & differentiated learning strategies implemented Individual ICT plan incorporated into teacher PDP
Year 4 Year of review Productivity Build a culture of collegiality and professionalism so that Professional Learning Teams are focused in collaborating and planning together for high quality instruction and student learning through a targeted/funded Professional Development plan a whole school approach to the regular use of data to inform practice and build teachers data literacy. Develop processes for the regular monitoring of the SSP Year 1 Provision of targeted staff Professional Development (PD) around: Strategic/educational leadership PLC initiative Big initiative ICT Home/school partnerships Tribes Student voice Develop an action plan to monitor and assess school performance against the SSP Planned professional development provided in all key areas Action plan developed to monitor performance against the SSP Develop school council yearly planner of key themes/events Year 2 Provision of targeted PD around: Strategic/educational leadership PLC initiative Big Write/VCOP initiative ICT Home/school partnerships Tribes Student voice Implement an action plan to monitor and assess school performance against the SSP Planned professional development provided in all key areas Action plan implemented to monitor performance against the SSP Year 3 Provision of targeted staff PD around: Strategic/educational leadership PLC initiative Big Write/VCOP initiative ICT Home/school partnerships Tribes Student voice Implement an action plan to monitor and assess school performance against the SSP Planned professional development provided in all key areas Action plan implemented to monitor performance against the SSP Year 4 Year of review