School plan 2018-2020 - Narrabeen Sports High School 8512

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School plan 2018-2020 - Narrabeen Sports High School 8512
School plan 2018-2020
   Narrabeen Sports High School 8512

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School background 2018–2020

    School vision statement                                         School context                                                   School planning process
     Inclusive, innovative and comprehensive. Skilled staff offer   Narrabeen Sports High School is a comprehensive,                 A wide range of tools and data has been used to develop
     outstanding specialist programs to foster every student’s      inclusive, co–educational school with a selective sports         the school’s future strategic directions. These include staff,
     interest. Teachers develop students’ skills to be creative,    program located 40 minutes from the Sydney CBD on the            parent and student satisfaction surveys through EMSAD,
     adaptable and empathetic across all key learning areas.        northern beaches of Sydney. The school has a strong              student, parent and staff focus groups, a staff PMI, and
                                                                    sporting, arts and academic tradition, with a focus on           staff consultation to develop strategic directions and
                                                                    individual student needs through strong wellbeing                evaluate current programs/ processes to determine future
                                                                    programs and a broad co–curricular program. The school is        planning. Sentral records, PBEL data and a Electronic Data
                                                                    focused on quality teaching and learning, positive               Summary Sheet were also considered. The senior
                                                                    education and future focused skills, aiming to develop well      executive will have direct responsibility and accountability
                                                                    informed, critical and creative thinkers with high resilience.   for the implementation of the school plan and the executive
                                                                    The school community is committed to a strong learning           team have an important role in ensuring the plans
                                                                    culture with respect for others and aspiration to success in     implementation at the grass roots level. The school
                                                                    all endeavours.                                                  community staff, students and parents will be invited
                                                                                                                                     through surveys and focus groups to provide feedback on
                                                                                                                                     our current school performance and contribute feedback
                                                                                                                                     through our evaluation cycle to inform planning for
                                                                                                                                     2018–2020.

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School strategic directions 2018–2020

                          STRATEGIC                                                      STRATEGIC                                                  STRATEGIC
                          DIRECTION 1                                                    DIRECTION 2                                               DIRECTION 3
                          Relationships                                                 Visible Learning                                         Functional Literacies

     Purpose:                                                        Purpose:                                                    Purpose:

       1. Develop skills to empathise, critically think and           1. To ensure students know what to do and how to do it.     1. To learn basic reading and writing skills to acquire
          creatively problem solve.                                                                                                  basic cognitive skills to think, learn, remember,
                                                                      2. To ensure students and teachers know to what extent
                                                                                                                                     calculate, reason and pay attention.
       2. To build a learning organisation characterised by trust,       learning is occurring.
          mutual respect, mindfulness, inclusiveness,                                                                             2. To learn ways to apply basic cognitive, writing and
                                                                      3. To ensure teachers can measure the magnitude of
          transparent/open communication.                                                                                            reading skills to contribute to socio–economic
                                                                         their impact on student learning.
                                                                                                                                     development, social awareness and critical reflection
       3. To improve the likelihood of engagement,
                                                                                                                                     as a basis for personal and social change.
          opportunities and wellbeing in the future.

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Strategic Direction 1: Relationships

    Purpose                                          People                                                   Processes                                      Practices and Products
       1. Develop skills to empathise, critically    People                                                    Meetings, communication                       Practices
          think and creatively problem solve.                                                                  pathways/platforms, Executive managed
                                                     Students will be able to:                                 shared responsibility of strategic            Students, staff and parents engage in
       2. To build a learning organisation                                                                                                                   whole school activities and communication
                                                                                                               priorities and targets across school
          characterised by trust, mutual respect,                                                                                                            structures.
                                                      • Identify others' viewpoints through                    community, empowerment of staff and
          mindfulness, inclusiveness,
                                                        listening and observation skills.                      student voice through communication
          transparent/open communication.                                                                                                                    Teaching and learning programs address
                                                                                                               structures including transparency of
                                                      • Confidently collaborate to achieve                                                                   targets connected to the Strategic Priority.
       3. To improve the likelihood of                                                                         decision making processes through the use
                                                        goals.
          engagement, opportunities and                                                                        of Sentral and standardised processes.
          wellbeing in the future.                    • Participate in a variety of opportunities.             Professional learning on managing             Students and staff participate in meetings,
                                                                                                               relationships including complaints handling   contribute and lead whole school activities
    Improvement Measures                             Staff will be able to:                                    procedures, customer service and              and participate in co–curricular activities.
                                                                                                               emotional intelligence. The Welfare Team
       • Students, staff and parents engage in        • Embed strategies for teaching empathy,                 will implement a programmed strategy to       Products
         whole school activities and                    critical thinking and creative problem                 deliver learning opportunities such as
         communication structures.                      solving.                                               camps, special days and specific programs     Continued engagement in high level
                                                                                                               to meet identified exit outcomes for each     international, national, state and local
       • Students and staff participate in            • Evaluate and explicitly model trust,                                                                 partnerships including Peninsula
         meetings, contribute and lead whole            mutual respect, mindfulness,                           year group.
                                                                                                                                                             Community of Schools, NorthGate, NBLA,
         school activities and participate in           inclusiveness, transparent/open                                                                      NSW Sports Associations, Sports High
         co–curricular activities.                      communication.                                        Evaluation Plan
                                                                                                                                                             School Association, Macquarie University,
       • Continued engagement in high level           • Provide opportunities for students to                  Tell Them from Me surveys, Google Form        Japanese schools.
         international, national, state and local       participate in a broad range of learning               surveys, exit outcome surveys, analysis of
         partnerships.                                  contexts.                                              Sentral data. Analysis of Performance and     All learning programs address a number of
                                                                                                               Development Frameworks to identify and        targets in the School Plan including
       • All learning and teaching programs          Parents will be able to:                                  measure the implementation of planned         Aboriginal Education.
         address a number of targets connected                                                                 strategies. Analysis and monitoring of
         to the strategic priorities in the School    • Encourage their children to participate in             milestones embedded in Executive Meeting      Professional Learning Plans address
         Plan including Aboriginal Education.           learning programs and activities.                      schedules. Annual reporting via Annual        School Plan priorities and targets by
       • Professional Learning Plans address          • Support the management of learning                     School Report and Self–Assessment             connecting and collaborating with internal
         School Plan priorities and targets by          programs and activities.                               Analysis against the School Excellence        and external experts and community
         connecting and collaborating with                                                                     Framework.                                    members to improve practice.
         internal and external experts and            • Contact the school for information and
         community members to improve                   clarification where required.
         practice.                                   Community Partners will be able to:

                                                      • Align their strategic directions to our
                                                        learning intentions and goals to create
                                                        synchronicity, partnerships and
                                                        opportunities for students and staff.
                                                      • Communicate with the school through
                                                        many platforms to provide feedback,
                                                        monitor progress and share successes.
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Strategic Direction 2: Visible Learning

    Purpose                                        People                                                   Processes                                       Practices and Products
       1. To ensure students know what to do       People                                                    Students will be explicitly taught to          Practices
          and how to do it.                                                                                  articulate their learning intentions and
                                                   Students are able to:                                     success criteria and how to measure their      Students engage in measurement and
       2. To ensure students and teachers know                                                                                                              analysis of their own learning. Staff
                                                                                                             work against these criterion. Students will
          to what extent learning is occurring.                                                                                                             establish classroom processes to measure
                                                    • articulate what an effective learner is                track their own progress against learning
       3. To ensure teachers can measure the                                                                 continuums. Professional learning will         and track student achievement. Community
                                                    • Measure their own learning                                                                            members monitor and celebrate successes.
          magnitude of their impact on student                                                               develop teachers' understanding of Visible
                                                      achievement
          learning.                                                                                          Learning and how to measure the impact of
                                                    • Articulate learning intentions and                     their strategies to adapt to improve student
    Improvement Measures                              success criteria for their learning                    outcomes.. A whole school plan for the         Products
                                                                                                             systematic collection of a range of data
       • Students demonstrate clear knowledge       • Explain what assessment tasks are for                                                                 Students are able to:
                                                                                                             using both standardised test data and
         of what they are learning and why they       and what the results mean
                                                                                                             quality classroom assessments will be
         are learning it.                                                                                                                                     • demonstrate a deep understanding of
                                                   Staff are able to:                                        used. Professional learning and embedded
                                                                                                                                                                their learning and engage with feedback
       • Student engagement and achievement                                                                  structures for the use of data by teachers
                                                                                                                                                                processes to set their future learning
         is analysed through surveys, focus         • Use a common language around                           will improve practises. The Learning and
                                                                                                                                                                intentions.
         group interviews, observations and           learning, learning intentions, success                 Support Team will have in–depth
         formative assessment.                        criteria and effective feedback.                       identification and monitoring processes to       • Understand and track their learning
                                                                                                             ensure students' individual needs are              along the literacy and numeracy
       • Assessment tasks are used for              • Measure the magnitude of the impact of                 recognised and a clear communication               continuums.
         evaluation and data analysis to inform       their teaching strategies.                             structure for distributing strategies for
         agile teaching strategies.                                                                          teachers to support these students.            Staff are able to:
                                                    • Use data to adapt strategies
       • Students and teachers set personal
                                                   Community Partners are able to:                          Evaluation Plan                                   • Develop learning intentions/ success
         learning goals.
                                                                                                                                                                criteria for all learning activities ensuring
       • Students and teachers receive effective    • Measure the magnitude of the impact of                 NAPLAN and HSC Data along with literacy            curriculum access for all students.
         feedback for improvement.                    the school's strategies                                and numeracy continuum data through
                                                                                                             Bump It Up will be analysed to track             • Model continuous learning and
                                                    • Support the learning and teaching                      student achievement. Feedback from focus           collaboration through professional
                                                      strategies of the school based on the                  teams, analysis of student data, surveys           learning.
                                                      data provided                                          and achievement will ensure agile delivery       • Provide agile instruction and feedback
                                                                                                             of programs.                                       connected to learning intention/success
                                                                                                                                                                criteria.
                                                                                                                                                              • Design and implement assessment
                                                                                                                                                                tasks addressing agreed targets.
                                                                                                                                                            Community Partners will be able to:

                                                                                                                                                              • Provide shared learning opportunities
                                                                                                                                                                through grant and community programs.
                                                                                                                                                              • Celebrate learning achievements
                                                                                                                                                                understanding whole school and
                                                                                                                                                                student growth.
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Strategic Direction 3: Functional Literacies

    Purpose                                             People                                                  Processes                                        Practices and Products
       1. To learn basic reading and writing skills     People                                                   Students will collaborate, communicate,         Practices
          to acquire basic cognitive skills to think,                                                            problem solve,think critically and creatively
          learn, remember, calculate, reason and        Students are able to:                                    by engaging in curriculum that is               Teachers employ innovative, quality 21st
          pay attention.                                                                                         inter–disciplinary, integrated and project      century teaching strategies with a focus on
                                                         • Access, comprehend, apply and                         based. They will develop knowledge of the       student reflection. Students articulate their
       2. To learn ways to apply basic cognitive,          manipulate information from a broad                                                                   own learning goals in writing and having a
                                                                                                                 learning process and purpose through the
          writing and reading skills to contribute to      range of source types in a broad range                                                                clear vision of their learning journey.
                                                                                                                 implementation of Visible Learning
          socio–economic development, social               of domains.                                                                                           Professional development embeds
                                                                                                                 strategies applied across many domains.
          awareness and critical reflection as a                                                                                                                 functional literacy strategies and planning is
                                                                                                                 strategies. Teachers will create classroom
          basis for personal and social change.          • Demonstrate their ability to synthesise                                                               informed by school data analysis.
                                                                                                                 environments that enable students to learn
                                                           information in various media forms.
    Improvement Measures                                                                                         in significant, real world contexts.
                                                         • Persuasively present information in a                 Community Partners will support the             Products
       • Students will be provided a wide range            variety of formats.                                   learning community by enabling skills to be
                                                                                                                                                                 Rich assessment data including:
         of quality learning experiences to                                                                      practised in non–classroom settings.
                                                         • Demonstrate a solutions focused
         develop their creative and critical                                                                                                                       • work samples
                                                           mindset in a variety of communication
         thinking skills across various forms of                                                                Evaluation Plan
                                                           mediums.
         communication and purposes.                                                                                                                               • comprehensive grade and class
                                                                                                                 Monitoring achievement of improvements              assessment information
       • A set of guiding principles (strategy          Teachers are able to:                                    by systematically collecting, discussing and
         matrix) is used to support planning and                                                                 analysing evidence of progress. Monitoring      Improved student performance on:
         provide effective feedback for                  • Work collaboratively to apply innovative
                                                                                                                 and assessing school progress against the
         improvement.                                      solutions to develop whole school
                                                                                                                 School Excellence Framework. Survey               • NAPLAN reading
                                                           targets.
       • Faculty curated online collections of rich                                                              students, staff and community to evaluate
                                                                                                                                                                   • NAPLAN writing
         assessment data including work                  • Embed visible learning strategies in                  these processes across the school,
         samples, comprehensive grade and                  learning opportunities targeting whole                including participation and improvement.          • HSC
         class assessment information are                  school priorities..                                   Community and parent consultation forums
                                                                                                                 to provide feedback on strategic directions,      • ROSA
         available for reference.                        • Develop skills to enhance and embed                   what we do well and areas to further              • All assessment tasks
       • Improved student performance in                   evidence based teaching strategies that               develop.
         NAPLAN, HSC, ROSA and assessment                  develop functional literacies in students.                                                            Student learning progress on:
         tasks addressing and meeting the
                                                        Community Partners are able to:                                                                            • literacy and numeracy continuums
         Premier's Priorities.
       • Student learning progress monitored by          • Share community knowledge and                                                                         Data recorded in Sentral and monitored by
         all teachers in Bump It Up.                       expertise around identified literacies.                                                               the Learning and Support/Bump It Up
                                                         • Provide opportunities for teachers and                                                                Teams.
                                                           students to practice, observe and
                                                           develop skills in non–school/classroom
                                                           environments.
                                                         • Reinforce values, practices and
                                                           consequences for applying information.

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