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

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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”

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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.

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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

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.”

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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

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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 . These words are:

Be Brave Wonder Collaborate Connect Explore Reflect

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Yr 3 2014 Naplan Results

Yr 3 Australia SA School Reading 419 408 482.4

Spelling 412 401 434.3

Writing 402 385 394.1

Grammar & 426 407 459 Punctuation

Numeracy 402 385 439.5

Year 5 Naplan Results 2014

Yr 5 Australia SA School Reading 501 489 508.9

Spelling 498 488 494.4

Writing 468 456 449.6

Grammar & 504 491 483.5 Punctuation

Numeracy 487 471 475.6

In 2015 we will be focusing on two main areas in Literacy and Numeracy : 1. Persuasive writing, developing thinking skills and learning how to learn. 2. Math’s reasoning, understanding how to learn concepts and apply these to learning. 3. To assist children’s thinking in these areas we have developed 6 Learner Quality words be Brave, Wonder, Collaborate, Connect, Explore and Reflect. We will use these terms to help in building learning language.

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Year 5 Naplan Trend 2014

Reading Levels

By making the learning visible in 2014 all teachers recorded each child’s reading levels. The following graphs and statistics demonstrate the growth a number of classes and intervention areas the school. Note this includes our special needs students across the school. You can observe that each student across all year levels has improved their grade from Term 1 – Term 4.

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Reception 30

15 Reception (2014) Term 1

10 Reception (2014) Term 4 Reading Reading Levels 5

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2014 Reception Students

Year 1 Improvements

Year 1 (2014) Term 1 15

Year 1 (2014) Term 4 Reading Reading Levels 10

0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 2014 Year One Students

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Year 2 Improvement Trends

15 Year 2 (2014 Term 1 Year 2 (2014 Term 4 Reading Reading Levels 10

0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 2014 Year Two Students

Year 3 Improvement Trends

25 20 15 Year 3 (2014) Term 1 Year 3 (2014) Term 4

Reading Reading Levles 10 5 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 Annual Report 2014 2014 Year Three Students 13 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014

Year 4 Improvement Reading Levels

30 25 20 15 Year 4 (2014) Term 1 10 Year 4 (2014) Term 4 Reading Reading Levels 5 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 2014 Year Four Students

2014 Intervention Program – Dragons Spelling Program Year 2/3

Waddington’s Diagnostic Spelling 2014 (18 students)

Student SA Student SA CA Gain Score Score Oct Feb 2 6.5 19 7.6 8.9 +17 4 6.7 17 7.4 8.2 +13 9 7.0 30 8.1 7.10 +21 12 7.1 39 8.5 7.8 +27 13 7.2 23 7.10 8.2 +10 14 7.2 32 8.2 7.9 +18 17 7.4 37 8.4 8.7 +20 18 7.5 29 8.1 7.8 +11 19 7.6 52 9.2 7.10 +33 28 8.1 36 8.4 8.2 +8 15 7.3 27 8.0 9.0 +12 18 7.5 39 8.5 9.4 +21 25 7.11 50 9.0 9.4 +25 26 7.11 54 9.3 8.7 +28 27 8.0 46 8.11 9.0 +19 27 8.0 47 8.11 9.5 +20 30 8.1 51 9.1 10.2 +21 42 8.7 60 9.7 9.2 +18

This data cannot show the improved phonetic attempts for incorrect spelling made by the students. Nor does it show the increased confidence, independence and work habits of each student. There are also many examples of the strategies taught being transferred to reading which cannot be documented. Most students can make links between words and word families taught and new words. They can use dictionaries to locate words and use Microsoft Word to create colourful and meaningful posters of their word lists. They are able to create new words by adding a variety of word endings. They are able to use the cheat sheets to locate digraphs to help them remember. Annual Report 2014 14 St Anthony’s Annual Report 2014

Extra – Curricula Activities

There are a number of extra- curricula activities offered across the school to include:

 Football  Basketball  Netball  Cricket  T-ball  Interschool carnivals, netball, touch football, athletics, swimming carnivals  Active After School Sports  At Year 3 children compete with other South Western Catholic Schools in the region. Parents are the coaches and are mentored by the Sports Coordinator.

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Musical instrumental lessons:

These are available for children to learn from outside tutors during the day. Lessons are available for individuals, in pairs or in small groups. Parents communicate directly with the tutors. There are a large number of instruments to choose from to include:

 Drums  Vocal  Flute/ recorder  Piano  Guitar

At the end of each year our instrumental students Year 3-5 perform in a Recital concert while our younger students perform in a lunchtime concert at school.