St Anthony's Annual Report 2014

St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 St Anthony’s is a Catholic school based in the South West Region of Adelaide and currently in 2014, 155 students. It is an R-5 co-educational school and part of an R-12 Catholic pathway feeding into Cabra (co-ed 6-12) Marymount ( all girls 6-12) and Sacred Heart ( boys 6-9) and Sacred Heart Senior School (co-ed 10-12) The pathway is a unique opportunity for parents located in the South West Region to access and take advantage of a small community primary school that can cater for your child’s needs and then transition to our middle /senior Catholic schools. Our school has a strong history and partnership working with students, parents and staff to foster positive learning outcomes for children to create an environment that is safe, happy and engaging for all. At St Anthony’s we offer a number of extra-curricula activities such as football, netball, soccer, basketball, t-ball and cricket. At Year Four and Five children are offered carnivals in netball, touch, and football, athletics and swimming. Being a small school we know all the students and are like one big family being able to cater for each child’s individual needs. We believe that each child is different and therefore in our educational programs we cater for differentiation in learning. We offer quality Out of Hours and Vacation Care as a service to our community and make sure that this is of the highest quality. Once again as we know the children in our care we are able to provide quality care with staff that know and understand our children and their needs. Your child is precious to us and we want to make a difference. Annual Report 2014 1 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 SCHOOL INFORMATION School Type Primary , Co-Educational School Sector Catholic – Non- Government SES 103 ICSEA 1090 Total Enrolments 155.9 % Indigenous Enrolments 3.0% % Students with Disabilities 7% STUDENT ATTENDANCE – by YEAR LEVEL Year Level Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Reception 96.57% 96.19% 92.38% 94.61% Year 1 94.58% 95.19% 93.44% 95.30% Year 2 96.59% 95.90% 93.75% 92.37% Year 3 96.77% 96.77% 95.46% 97.14% Year 4 95.96% 92.95% 93.10% 95.68% Year 5 96.24% 93.67% 94.93% 97.10% Average 96.11% 95.11% 93.84% 95.36% ENROLMENTS by YEAR LEVEL YEAR LEVEL BOYS GIRLS TOTAL RECEPTION 11 9 20 YEAR 1 10 16 26 YEAR 2 17 15 32 YEAR 3 16 15 31 YEAR 4 16 8 24 YEAR 5 15 7 22 TOTAL 155 SCHOOL INCOME State Government Grant 240,953 State Government Additional Funding 5910 Commonwealth Government Grant 1,184,561 Commonwealth Government Other 121,778 School Fees ( inclusive of levies) 403,409 POST SCHOOL DESTINATIONS Cabra Dominican College Sacred Heart College Marymount College Annual Report 2014 2 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 STAFFING Teacher Standards & Qualifications Masters 2 Bachelor of Education 11 Master Special Education 1 STAFFING Nil Aboriginal/ Torres Strait Islander 1 Male FTE Teacher 1 Male Part-time Teacher 3 Female FTE Teachers 6 Female Part time Teachers Total Staffing = 10.2 EDUCATION SUPPORT OFFICERS 1 Male Part time 2 Female Part time 1 Female Full time Professional Learning undertaken in 2014- Developing a Performance & Development Culture National Partnership project Visual Learning ( John Hattie, Dylan Williams, Carol Dweck ) How to Learn ( Mark Treadwell) 2014 GOALS AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS A new vision for the future has been developed and endorsed by the community for the next 5 years. Our values underpin who we are and how we operate. Our Catholicity is underpinned by our value ‘We Love’, by treating everyone with respect, building and growing in relationship with all within our community. St Anthony’s Vision Statement: Growing in Faith Building Knowledge Working for Justice Mission Statement: St Anthony’s Catholic School is a community of learners who through inquiring minds and reflective hearts celebrate and nurture a love of God, each other and creation to become the good news for the world” Annual Report 2014 3 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 Educational Vision: St Anthony’s is a community of learners engaging in authentic, creative and reflective practices within a collaborative environment. Authentic learning involves real life problem-solving activities allowing multiple perspectives and ways of working, it challenges and engages learners . Creative learning enhances originality, innovation and imagination in both teaching and learning. Reflective practice involves critical thinking, being open to change and an emphasis on reviewing to improve. Collaborative learning involves working together to achieve a common goal, where accountability and equity are shared. OUR VALUES: St Anthony’s is a community where ; We LEARN by being organized, taking risks, being self - motivated, building and applying knowledge, using thinking skills to challenge, create, invent and problem solve. We LOVE by treating each other in our world with respect. Through kindness, generosity, compassion and forgiveness we discover the love of God. We LAUGH by being people of joy, celebrating our successes and special moments as a community. We LISTEN carefully to each other, the Christian story and the cries of the earth, we are inclusive and value diversity. We LEAD by serving others, working for the common good, modeling truth and justice. Annual Report 2014 4 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 Teaching & Learning In 2013-14 the professional development focus was around quality teaching and learning, looking at the latest research, teachers reflecting on their own practice and being guided by the simple teaching and learning model below: Plan Review Implement Share St Anthony’s whole school approach to learning is based on John Hattie’s research ‘Visible Learning’, making learning visible to students, parents and teachers. The cartoon statement below was developed by and for teaching staff to enable them to be clear about learning at St Anthony’s. Quality Teaching = Quality Learning Information and Communication Technology Vision is: “ To enhance and engage student’s ability to be curious, discover, learn anywhere, anyhow, anyway and anytime we empower student’s to take responsibility for their learning by making connections, working collaboratively, creatively and globally.” Annual Report 2014 5 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 QUALITY TEACHING = QUALITY LEARNING Technology plays a key role in assisting learning. Students learn to use skills of collaboration, creativity and innovation. In 2014 we introduced Bring Your Own Device There have been significant changes in education and the use of Information Technology and Communications in the last century. Major challenges exist. Collaboration is crucial to achieving our vision to enable confident use of ICT’s in everyday practice. The new National Curriculum is based on capabilities and competencies across all areas with technology being the motivational tool to further and engage the learning experience. Our aim is to seek engagement for all our students, and build competencies and skills in an increasingly emerging digital and global world. We therefore aim to: Transform outcomes through student centered personalised learning. To be confident learners, to make connections and to work collaboratively with the use of multi-media. To empower students to self manage their learning, offering more choice about how and where. To teach and learn by being creative and collaborative. For students to communicate in a collaborative environment, ask questions, think critically, reflect and act upon. Information & Communications Technology Vision: “ To enhance and engage student’s ability to be curious, discover, learn anywhere, anyhow, anyway and anytime we empower student’s to take responsibility for their learning by making connections, working collaboratively, creatively and globally.” Annual Report 2014 6 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 Information Technologies to Assist Learning – Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) During 2014 an ICT committee (staff, P&F and Board representatives) continued to investigate in consultation with the community the best way forward to enhance technology at St Anthony’s. A number of surveys where conducted, a trial run and cybersafety and conditions of BYOD policies were produced, these are available on our website. The Board approved a BYOD policy and program for 2015. Quality Teaching = Quality Learning Annual Report 2014 7 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 These statements qualify our Cartoon Statement around what is Quality Teaching What is a Learning Intention? It is a statement which describes clearly what the teacher wants the students to know, understand and be able to do. What does Success Criteria mean? Students are able to evaluate their progress while in the process of completing an assessment task. Teachers are able to provide feedback/feedforward which students can act upon in order to improve their work. What is the difference between Feedback/ Feedforward ? Feedback is when we offer advice about student’s work which incorporates reference to what has been done well, feedforward is what still needs to be done in order to achieve, and advice on how to achieve that. Annual Report 2014 8 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014 What is Goal Setting? Differentiated and individual learning goals are set, reflected upon, modified and changed in order to improve teaching and learning. What type of Assessment is used? Assessment is both formative and summative. Formative assessment is ‘for learning’ this occurs during the learning. Summative assessment ‘of learning’, occurs at the end of a teaching concept in order give feedback on the learning achieved. Learner Qualities At the end of 2014 our teaching staff developed 6 learner quality words to begin to develop a whole school language and build the learner capacity in each student .

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