Annual Report 2013
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CONTENTS
Board of Governance 3 Executive Leadership Team 3 Highlights 4 Statistics 12 Financials 19
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BOARD OF GOVERNANCE
Members FINANCE
Mr Paul Campbell (Chair) Fr Neil Muir (Chair) Bishop James Foley (Ex‐Officio) Ms Rose‐Marie Dash Fr Neil Muir (Episcopal Vicar, Ex‐Officio) Mr Paul Campbell Dr Stephen Torre Br Paul Hough Ms Elaine Jesurasingham Mr Todd Kelly Br Paul Hough (Support Role) Ms Jasmine Sheehan Mr Kevin Malone (Support Role) Mr Kevin Malone Mr Andrew McKenzie (Executive Officer) Mr Paul McArthur (Executive Officer)
FAITH Mrs Trish Nash (Acting Chair) Subcommittees Fr Martin Kenny Mrs Cathy Spencer EDUCATION Ms Lyn Willms Mrs Santina Keenan Dr Stephen Torre (Chair) Mr Colin Harvey (Executive Officer) Mr Brendon Alexander (Deputy Chair) Mrs Priscilla O’Brien (Secretariat) Mrs Patricia Jones
Mrs Debbie Kearney
Mrs Ruth Mallon
Ms Ursula Elms (Executive Officer)
Executive Leadership Team (At Year End)
Executive Director Br Paul Hough fms Assistant Executive Director Corporate Services Mr Paul McArthur Assistant Executive Director Faith & Religious Education Mr Colin Harvey Assistant Executive Director Learning & Teaching Mrs Ursula Elms Assistant Executive Director School Development Mr Paul Cazzulino Assistant Executive Director School Development Mr Gerard Kearney Assistant Executive Director School Development Secondary Mr Shane Hogan Executive Manager Employee Services Mrs Vicki Bell Manager Executive Services Mr Andrew McKenzie (Supporting role)
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HIGHLIGHTS
Governance We thank a number of senior school leaders who held acting Principal’s positions in 2013 – David The Board of Governance met six times in 2013. We Harris (St Augustine’s College), Glen Bucklar again thank Paul Campbell for his dedicated (OLHOC), Nadine Grant (MOGC) and Josh Mullane leadership of the Board. The Board provided key at St Augustine’s, Mossman. Yvonne Devlin retired leadership and advice during the year on a range of as Principal of St Augustine’s, Mossman in October, issues including proposed new schools and new in order to return to Brisbane with her husband policies. We also note with appreciation the Tim, for his medical treatment. contribution to Board discussions of Bishop James and the Episcopal Vicar for Education Fr Neil Muir. Special Assistance School Senior staff Final Diocesan governance approval was received for the Special Assistance School which will have In January 2013 Ursula Elms rejoined CES as the two campuses – Manoora in Cairns, and Cooktown. Assistant Executive Director (AED) Learning and Some $9m in government capital was secured to Teaching. Gerard Kearney was appointed AED fund the construction of both campuses. The school School Development in April after previously will cater for up to 90 disengaged youth – 52 in serving in an acting capacity. He replaced Tim Cairns and 38 in Cooktown. Cooktown will also be a Devlin, who resigned, due to ill health, in March. weekly boarding facility. Gerry Simon served as acting AED School Development (Secondary) from January to June, The project is a tangible demonstration of the followed by Shane Hogan from July to December. inclusive nature of Catholic Education and our commitment to provide educational opportunities School leadership at the margins of our society. New Principals were appointed to a number of This is not going to be a school without its schools in 2013. At the start of the year Catherine challenges but we take great comfort and McKechnie joined St Teresa’s School, Ravenshoe, inspiration from the words of Pope Francis who Judy Billiau was appointed to St Rita’s, Babinda, says we must support the movements of God Gavin Rick at St Joseph’s, Parramatta Park and Ida among our people with patience so that no one is Pinese at St Stephen’s Catholic College, Mareeba. left behind. Luke Brown was appointed Principal at Artist’s impression – SAS Cairns Our Lady Help of Christians, Earlville in July as was Ruth Mallon at Mother of Good Counsel, North Cairns. Br Darren Burge was appointed Principal at St Augustine’s College in October.
Artist’s impression – SAS Cooktown
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New schools – Weipa and Mt Peter Shared Services We were unsuccessful in securing government The Diocese of Cairns has partnered with Brisbane funding through the Queensland Catholic Catholic Education to implement a range of new Education Commission this year for the first stage information systems. This includes workforce, of the proposed new Prep to Year 12 school at Mt payroll and school and student management. Peter in Cairns’ southern growth corridor. We will Planning for the migration to these systems make a further submission in 2014. commenced in the latter part of 2013, with a rollout planned throughout 2014. The benefits of We received development approval for our these new systems will be seen from classroom proposed Prep‐Year 6 school at Weipa from the teachers with areas such as improved analytics and Weipa Town Authority and progressed lease reporting data on students, through to agreements with Rio Tinto Alcan for the school site. school leadership and Catholic Education This will allow us to progress a capital funding leadership teams, where there will be greater application in 2014. visibility of individual school performance. For We envisage that Weipa will grow to be a school of parents there is the promise that data will only about 180 students while Mt Peter might need to be entered once for a student’s life in eventually rival St Andrew’s in size, with diocesan schools. enrolments in excess of 1500 students. A further advantage is that the system’s reporting We see the Weipa school as providing great and analytics will herald a new era in business support for the active and largely self‐sustaining intelligence for both schools and CES. This will Weipa Catholic community. For Mt Peter our replace some very time‐consuming current demographic analysis has shown our share of practices used to compile and assess data. enrolments is much lower in this area, probably We gratefully acknowledge largely because we have not had a well located the support and school to attract families. partnership of Brisbane Catholic Education in this project.
Artist’s impression – new Weipa school
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Enhancing Catholic School Identity Education, conducted in partnership with James Project Cook University continues to grow in numbers. The course provides staff with Master’s level studies in Six Cairns school communities have engaged with theology, spirituality, religious education and this project since it commenced in 2012. It is in scripture. Numerous professional learning partnership with the Catholic University Leuven in opportunities have been provided centrally and in Belgium, Brisbane Catholic Education and schools by CES staff, APREs and visiting national Townsville Catholic Education. The main goal of the and international presenters. project is to help participating schools/colleges profile their Catholic Identity with a view towards Rollout of the Australian developing strategies which enhance that identity. Curriculum Schools are assisted in deepening their The phase 1 Australian Curriculum learning areas understanding of the Australian cultural context of: English, Mathematics and Science were and its implications for the Catholic identity of their consolidated during 2013 and the Australian schools. Survey instruments provide data about Curriculum learning area of History was how Catholic identity is perceived and expressed in implemented. Professional learning focused on the the life of the school community. This data is then phase 2 learning area of Geography. Teachers used as the basis for celebration of the richness of explored the curriculum and investigated the Catholic school life and recommendations are pedagogical practices, skills and resources required made about strategic actions to be taken to for implementation. During 2013, primary and strengthen the school’s Catholic identity in the secondary teachers developed units of planning for future. It has been especially helpful to schools the discipline of Geography P‐10. reviewing their vision and mission statements and the project connects with on‐going school renewal. The curriculum team organised the annual Curriculum Conference‐ARTSMARTS. This New Religious Education conference targeted the five subjects within The Curriculum ARTS Australian Curriculum learning area: Visual Catholic Education Services has begun Arts, Media Arts, Dance, Drama and Music. Over implementing a new Religious Education 120 participants took part in the Saturday morning Curriculum (P‐12). The curriculum has been written conference. by Brisbane Catholic Education and was launched in Brisbane in October, 2013. The new curriculum gives expression to two distinct yet complementary processes; the classroom teaching and learning of religion and the religious life and Catholic ethos of the school community. The curriculum is organised into four interrelated strands: Sacred Texts, Beliefs, Church and Christian life, with each strand having its own distinctive body of knowledge. It is being introduced gradually over the next three years. Formation of Staff Formation of staff continues to be a priority. Among many highlights, the annual TREWTH Conference held in March saw over 350 participants. The Graduate Certificate of Catholic
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Trade Training Centres Improving outcomes for student The Cairns Catholic Vocational Trade Training numeracy and literacy Centre (CCVTTC) Cluster consisting of St Mary’s Primary teachers have been provided assistance in Catholic College, St Stephen’s Catholic College, developing skills and improved practices to support Good Counsel College, Mount St Bernard College literacy and numeracy outcomes. During 2013 each and St Augustine’s College commenced operation primary school was provided with access to a throughout the year. St Augustine’s College was Literacy or Numeracy Coach, supported by CES successful in gaining RTO status in order to offer coaches. The role of the coach is to model lessons Engineering and Construction Vocational and using the explicit instruction framework and assist Education and Training (VET) courses from 2014. teachers in their development of effective The final building stage for this cluster will conclude pedagogy and practice. In addition to the benefits during 2014. of the coaching program, education officers continued to provide support in English and Mathematics to all primary schools.
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Indigenous Enrolments and National Collection of Consistent Attainment Data for Students with Disability The Federal Government has commenced a In 2013 there continued to be a steady increase in National Implementation Plan for the National enrolments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection of Consistent Data of School Students students. As at State Census there were 804 with Disability that will run from 2013‐2015. Seven students enrolled in our 26 schools and colleges, Cairns Diocesan schools participated in the trial of representing 7.7% of total enrolments and an the program, supported by CES Student Services increase of 5.5% up from 2012 year. staff. The collection of data is underpinned by legal Engagement in schools through cultural requirements for schools to provide reasonable celebrations and parent and community adjustments for students as per the Disability engagement also increased as a result with the Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability introduction of part time employment of Standards for Education 2005. The trial model Indigenous Liaison Officers across the diocese. The requires teachers to make professional judgments role of the Indigenous Liaison Officer varied across regarding the level of adjustment being provided each school setting with a range of initiatives within four defined categories of disability. School increasing participation in events such as National teams have been required to gather evidence to Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC Week, Parent Groups demonstrate that a student with a disability has and Year 11 & 12 Student Leaders Dinner. been provided with an adjustment to meet The team continued to work alongside schools to educational needs during a defined ten week support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander period. Consultation with Parents and carers is also students to increase student achievement, through a valued part of the process. From 2015, all schools the implementation of personalised learning plans in Australia will be required to annually participate and/or strategies. in the data collection plan.
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Year 7 to Secondary We are managing these important changes to our In 2015, Year 7 will become the first year of education system with exceptional care. The 7 to secondary schooling in Queensland. Catholic Secondary initiative has been closely monitored education authorities across Queensland are and discussed at all levels of leadership. Nearly working closely with the State Government to $10m is being spent on secondary school make this transition as seamless as possible, to infrastructure including increased boarding facilities ensure that students in Catholic schools gain the at St Augustine’s College and Mount St Bernard maximum benefit from the transition. College and Professional Development The move of Year 7 to Secondary is an historic and opportunities for our staff are ongoing. exciting development. In 2015 the incoming Year 7 Contemporary Contexts of School and 8 cohorts mean our colleges will welcome a third of their student intake as new students. Religious Education Educators agree that young teenagers are ready for There are four contemporary contexts that are greater independence and this move along with the impacting on Religious Education in the Diocese. Australian Curriculum will open up new educational They are the Societal Context, Ecclesial Context, opportunities for students of this age. This move Educational Context and Digital Context. now sees Queensland aligned with most other States and Territories schooling structures where Our schools operate in a complex and ever‐ Year 7 is already the first year of secondary school. changing environment. Students are immersed in a global world and from an early age are exposed to a range of values represented through diverse media. Many are uncertain of and at times indifferent to the relevance of beliefs and practices of religion in their daily lives, as secularisation is a powerful force in the societal context within which we all live. The challenge for Catholic education is to re‐ignite the flame of faith. Our schools strive to be counter‐ cultural, challenging negative societal influences that impact on the spiritual wellbeing of students, such as excessive individualism, moral relativism and consumerism. An increasing number of students and their families are less engaged with the formal life of the Church than in the past. Consequently, for many students, the culture and language of religion is underdeveloped when they first attend school. The challenge is to support students and their families by connecting them with the Catholic Christian tradition and its spiritual richness; provide a forum in which this tradition can be experienced and explored. Religious Education activities give students a religious voice that they can bring to everyday life; a lens through which they may view the world.
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The Religious Education curriculum is built on best Policy development educational practice. The challenge is to ensure that classroom learning and teaching of religion During 2013 the Board approved new or revised reflects the philosophy, content, structure, policies on student protection and bullying as well academic rigour and assessment and reporting as a Code of Conduct for Parents and Volunteers. modes used in other curriculum areas. CES approved a range of new guidelines and The rapid growth of technology continues to impact procedures including tuition fee collection, on schools. Through technology, students engage in volunteers, school attendance, Family Law matters new ways of belonging and have access to a world and counselling. The full suite of approved of ideas and knowledge at their fingertips. Religious documents was presented on a Resources Page on Education seeks to engage students in the critical, the Staff Portal, providing easy accessibility for all creative and responsible use of digital tools, staff. especially in the use of social media. Early Learning and Care Catholic Education Services and the Diocese of Cairns began the process of transferring the operations of Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), the Redlynch long day care centre and kindergarten, and the Silkwood kindergarten from Catholic Education to a new diocesan agency, Catholic Early Learning and Care. This process did not involve the combined school/prep kindergartens on Thursday Island and the pre‐Prep facility on Hammond Island.
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Recognition DOCEMUS AWARDS Sue Wegert The annual Docemus Awards were awarded in August in recognition of outstanding contributions to Catholic education in the Cairns Diocese. School Officer
Sue Wegert ‐ Mount St Bernard College, Herberton Secondary Teacher Margaret Marton ‐ St Mary’s Catholic College, Woree Leadership Terry Power ‐ St Monica’s College & Sisters of Mercy Primary Teacher Margaret Marton John Cahill ‐ St Gerard Majella School, Woree Volunteer Judy Rick – St Michael’s School, Gordonvale
Terry Power SPIRIT OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION AWARD
Cairns Diocese recipient of the state‐wide Spirit of Catholic Education Awards during Catholic Education Week (Term 3, Week 3) was Jo Martorella from St Joseph’s School, Parramatta Park. Ambassador for the week was Anthony Ryan and the theme, Making a Difference.
RIGHT: Governor of Queensland Penelope Wensley John Cahill presents Jo Martorella.
Judy Rick
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STATISTICS
Catholicity Our schools 2013 2012 2011 2010 DIOCESAN SCHOOLS
Students 53.7% 55% 56% 56% Primary: 19 Staff 70% 70% 71% 70% Secondary: 6 Prep – Year 12: 1 TOTAL: 26
Enrolments (Federal Census, August 2013)
Principal Suburb/Town School (as at Dec 2013) Year Level Primary Secondary Atherton St Joseph's Mrs Trish Nash P – 7 210 Babinda St Rita's Mrs Judy Billiau P – 7 41 Bentley Park St Therese's Mr Kevin Browning P – 7 706 Cairns St Augustine's College Br Darren Burge 8 – 12 636 Cairns St Monica's College Ms Kristen Sharpe 8 – 12 547 Dimbulah St Anthony's Mrs Katrina Miller P – 7 77 Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians Mr Luke Brown P – 7 602 Gordonvale St Michael's Mrs Lea Martin P – 7 271 Herberton Mount St Bernard College Br Bill Tynan cfc 8 – 12 149 Innisfail Good Counsel Primary Mr Liam Kenny P – 7 328 Innisfail Good Counsel College Mr Paul Keenan 8 – 12 567 Manunda St Francis Xavier’s Mr Brendon Alexander P – 7 574 Mareeba St Thomas’s Mrs Rita Petersen P – 7 459 Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College Mrs Ida Pinese 8 – 12 380 Mossman St Augustine's Mrs Rebecca Maxwell P – 7 218 North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel Mrs Ruth Mallon P – 7 339 Parramatta Pk St Joseph's Mr Gavin Rick P – 7 385 Ravenshoe St Teresa's Mrs Catherine McKechnie P – 7 138 Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College Mr Lee McMaster P – 12 881 757 Silkwood St John's Mr Andrew Maley P – 7 59 South Johnstone St Rita's Mrs Vicki Conomo P – 7 121 Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Ms Helen Kett P – 7 129 Trinity Park Holy Cross Mrs Wendy Manners P – 7 511 Tully St Clare's Mr Greg Hoare P – 7 158 Woree St Gerard Majella Mr Terry Grant P – 7 448 Woree St Mary's Catholic College Mrs Pat Jones 8 – 12 744 TOTAL 6655 3780 TOTAL ENROLMENTS 10435
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Our students
STUDENTS BY YEAR LEVEL
Primary Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 TOTAL 978 906 886 835 842 774 606 828
Secondary Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 TOTAL 853 814 800 690 623
Federal Census 2013
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ENROLMENT TREND
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Primary 5520 5729 5980 5906 5908 6060 6151 6255 6464 6655 Secondary 2707 2854 3051 3188 3398 3543 3483 3658 3786 3780 TOTAL 8227 8582 9031 9094 9306 9603 9634 9913 10250 10435 Annual % 3.69% 4.32% 5.23% 0.70% 2.33% 3.19% 0.32% 2.90% 3.40% 1.8% Movement FTE, Federal Census, August 2013
Federal Census 2013
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STUDENTS OF ABORIGINAL / TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DESCENT Enrolments
Federal Census 2013
Number % Primary 487 7.32 Secondary 306 8.10
TOTAL 793 7.6 Federal Census 2013
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Enrolments Number % Primary 121 1.82 Secondary 73 1.93 TOTAL 194 1.86
Federal Census 2013
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YEAR 12 OUTCOMES
Overall - % Cairns Cairns Indigenous QLD Catholic 2013 2012 2011 2010 2013 2012 2011 2010 2013 2012 2011 2010 Received a QCE 94 92 91 86 86 88 83 69 92 91 90 89 OP eligible 72 74 80 73 28 47 48 41 68 68 69 68 VET 66 47 45 45 72 55.8 38 41 57 55 53 48 No qual 2 4.7 2.5 3.6 11.1 8.8 6.9 16.6 Not available
Students in OP bands - Number OP Bands Cohort 1’s 1 ‐ 5 6 ‐ 10 11 ‐ 15 16 ‐ 25 TOTAL 617 8 94 136 133 81 As % of OP Eligible 444 1.8% 21.2% 30.6% 30% 18.2%
Destinations* - % 2012 2011 2010 reported in 2013 reported in 2012 reported in 2011
University 40.2 46 36 * Collected by QLD Government VET Cert IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma 3.2 3.5 3 from May‐Sept 2013 from VET Cert III/Studying Certificate III 2 3 3 students who completed Year VET Cert I‐II/Studying Certificate I or II 2.4 2 3 12 in 2012. These figures Apprentice 5 8.5 9 represent only those students who responded to the survey Trainee 2.1 2.5 5 and not 100% of the cohort. Working full‐time 8.7 14.5 17 Working part‐time 7.7 15 18 Seeking work 5.4 4.5 5 Not studying and not in the labour force 0.4 1 1
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NAPLAN RESULTS Overall Numeracy Cairns Diocese Qld Australia Year 3 Mean 413 408 419 Participation Rate 97 94 95 Year 5 Mean 490 487 494 Participation Rate 97 95 96 Year 7 Mean 540 531 535 Participation Rate 96 95 96 Year 9 Mean 586 567 573 Participation Rate 96 91 92
Overall Literacy Cairns Diocese Qld Australia Year 3 Mean 387 386 397 Participation Rate 97 94 95 Year 5 Mean 488 481 486 Participation Rate 97 95 95 Year 7 Mean 546 539 542 Participation Rate 96 95 95 Year 9 Mean 590 573 584 Participation Rate 95 90 91
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Our Staff
NUMBERS 2013 2012 2011 Total Staff Employed 1978 1923 1800 Permanent 926 Not reported Not reported Fixed Term 561 Not reported Not reported Casual 491 Not reported Not reported Female 1413 Not reported Not reported Male 565 Not reported Not reported CES Office & Professional Services 93 90 81 Schools Teachers 860 811 820 Relief Teachers 237 280 162 Non‐Teaching 642 575 567 Boarding Staff 48 47 51 Teachers on Leave 60 Not reported Not reported FTE Total 1239 964.43 973.9 75 75 Not reported Not reported Teachers 757 615.47 673.3 Support 444 348.96 300.6 New Staff Total 356 387 368 Outside School Hours Care 113 120 119
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FINANCIALS
Income and Expenditure PRIMARY SCHOOLS (19), DIOCESAN COLLEGES (7) & CES
Income $ % Fees & Levies and other Private Income 31,525,490 22.91% State & Commonwealth Recurrent Grants 106,080,473 77.09% Total Income 137,605,963 100.00%
Expenditure $ % Salaries & Wages 81,851,725 59.48% Salary On‐Costs 14,893,838 10.82% Grant Expenditure ‐ Targeted 6,214,308 4.52% Other 32,581,064 23.68% Total Expenditure 135,540,935 98.50%
Net Surplus 2,065,028 1.50% After Capital Income (including government capital grants) 13,071,835 Net Surplus after Capital Income 15,136,863 Based on 2013 final audited financial statements
Block Grants Authority funding
School/College Project Description Project Cost School Capital Grant Contribution
St Stephen’s Catholic Construction of 2 x GLA's & 2 x FLA's $1,398,807 $20,000 $1,378,807 College, Mareeba with associated covered verandahs plus provision of additional covered lunch area.
St Joseph’s School, Atherton Convert Learning Support Area and $400,617 $20,000 $380,617 adjoining PE store to 1 x additional Prep classroom. Demolish tuckshop & convert with adjoining undercover lunch area to 1 x GLA.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Refurbish Admin. Convert GLA to $251,664 $10,000 $241,664 School, Thursday Island admin. Convert undercroft to stores.
TOTALS $2,051,088 $$50,000 $2,001,088
Flying Start (Y7 to Secondary) funding
College Project Description Capital Grant
Mount St Bernard College, Construction of 10 x bed boys boarding dormitory and associated $858,520 Herberton facilities.
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