Lee Sansom

Janet Benson

8/03/2018

Our school is in its seventh year of operation. As the inaugural Principal it has been an honour to lead this communityfrom the planning stages of bringing together child care, education and family support to moving into a purpose builtfacility for 21 Century learners. The Birth - Year 7 site, which has a Childrens Centre and Intensive English LanguageCentre works collaboratively to ensure that support services and the educational needs of children and students areeffectively coordinated to contribute to learning, developmentand well being.

Our 2017 February enrolments were 346 R-7 in the mainstream, 66 Intensive English Language Centre (IELC) & 71enrolments in the Preschool. The student population is diverse with 65% eligible for school card numbers . We have56% of our student population is from Non Englsih Speaking Background ( NESB) and 17.07%% are Aboriginallearners. Our ESL children represent 33 language groups other than English. 7.56% of children have been identified asrequiring N.E.P’s and entitled to Special Education support

All 4-year-old children accessed 15 hours of preschool, over 2 days in the Children's Centre. Occasional Care operatedthree mornings a week and catered for 56 families, with 73 children enrolled. The integrated service provided aseamless transitioninto the preschool with 20 children transitioning at the end of 2017. Playgroup continued to be ahighly successful program, withup to 36 children and their families attending weekly, learning and recognising the criticalrole parents’ play in supporting theirchildren.

Highlights for the Year:

• The many exhibitions of childrens ’learning• Family Connections Day 1 & 2• The 1st BANB7 School Production - 'The True story of the not so big bad wolf"• Festival of Music Concert• BANB7 Hip Hop Crew performing at local schools• Sports Day• Robo Cup• The revamping of the Zen Garden connected with our Realy Years STEM project• The Piazza Project• The BANB Barista’s• Camps/Swimming/Excursions• Interschool Chess competitions• Active After School program• Drum & Guitar lessons or Kids

Once again I would like to thank the Governing Council members for their participation. I would also like to thank JulieSieben for her work as BANB7 Business Manager and being a part of all of the Governing Council Meetings since theschool opened and supporting us. We wish her well in her retirement. The BANB7 staff are an extremely caring staff andwant the best for the children.

The National Quality Standard (NQS) is the indicator against which we self-assess our performance in delivering qualityEducation and Care and plan future improvements to our integrated Allied Health and Community DevelopmentPrograms. The areas we identified for improvement in 2017 and 2018 are:QUALITY AREA 1: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND PRACTICELooking more deeply at engaging children in project work with a numeracy and STREAM focus. Educators use projectwork as a way of delving more deeply into the numeracy indicators and the use of the ‘split screen’ to identify academicskills in numeracy and the dispositions needed to use them. With the aim of more closely assessing, tracking andplanning for improved numeracy outcomes for children.Progress: In 2017 Educators embarked on a sustainability project, linked to the garden, educators providedopportunities for children to investigate and inquire into the life cycles of bees, who we can grow sustainable food, howwe can dispose of our rubbish in a sustainable way. This learning was documented in a floor/inquiry book and took alead in the planning cycle for term 2, 3 and 4. In 2018, staff will visit ‘Princes Hill’ school in Melbourne to unpack howthey plan for integrated inquiry across Preschool to year 7. The preschool invested in beebots this year and educatorshave facilitated a measurement and mapping inquiry through the exploration of this technology. Educators will moveforward with this work over 2018, focusing on authenticity and a natural out come from children’s inquiries.QUALITY AREA 2: CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND SAFETY with strong links to Quality Area 6Working together with families to support healthy eating in the community and centre, whilst strengthening our centre’ssustainability. Child Protection curriculum to be embedded in the preschool program.Progress: Across the children’s center we have been reflecting on the availability of nutritional information available tofamilies. This has lead to an integrated program approach with Learning Together working with families to provide visualinformation on sugar content, which can be misleading and confusing on packaging. Our Community DevelopmentOfficer (Shaun) continues to access to healthy eating sessions and information.Preschool staff have attended additional training from our Well Being officer to support them in talking to children aboutchild protection issues. The preschool will be working on making their child protection curriculum visual and clear toparents and families with an emphasis on book based planning, as the books we read with children forms a foundationfor child protection and self care messages.QUALITY AREA 6: COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIESFamily curriculum consulting group: Parent surveys from 2016 and 2017 indicated that families didn’t feel as involved incurriculum making decisions as they did in other areas of the preschool so we have endeared to change this byproviding

Site Priority – Literacy, Numeracy

Literacy Targets:Running Records - Reception 9-11, Year 1: 17-20, Year 2: 21 – 24PAT R - DECD SEA (Standard of Achievement) - Yr 3: 100 or better, Yr 4: 110 or better, Yr 5: 115 or better, Yr 6: 120or better, Yr 7: 124 or betterNAPLAN -Growth of Children in Reading Yr 3-Yr 5 & Yr 5 & Yr 7 Lower band - 25% , Middle Band – 50%, Upper Band– 25%

2017 Literacy Key Strategies:1. Reading Goal setting with children each term- to be put into Reading agreement2. Paragraphs: Articulate language of paragraphing in bookmaking/notebook3. Use learner progress data regularly in Literacy team planning time to inform teaching4. Coaching model with Lisa Burman - Literacy and Inquiry Learning6. Consistency of RR- this year an Unseen Text – email out specifics of undertaking RR Week 8 each term

Literacy Key Recommendations for 20181. Reading & Writing Goal setting with children each term2. Paragraphs: Articulate language of paragraphing in bookmaking/notebook3. Notebook - Extending Young Writers through Reflection & Metacognition4. Interventions Strategies for all in Literacy Teams5. Waves of Intervention

Numeracy Targets:•PAT M-DECD SEA (Standard of Educational Achievement) - Yr 3: 110 Yr 4: 115 Yr 5: 120 Yr 6: 124 Yr 7: 125•NAPLAN - Growth of Children in Reading Yr 3-Yr 5 & Yr 5 & Yr 7 - Lower band - 25% , Middle Band – 50%, UpperBand – 25%

2017 Key Strategies:1. Continue Maths Coaching Model to support:2. Whole school approach to collecting and using data3. EYLF – Preschool to continue PLC numeracy project and develop an EY numeracy continuum4. R-2 – Mental Computation Strategies as per Pyramid; data recording to be linked to Sentral and followchildren5. PAT-M and NAPLAN - Quantitative data analysis to inform planning & practice.6. STEM: include authentic maths learning opportunities7. Induction information for new staff includes Natural Maths and agreement re Numeracy Block.

Numeracy Key Recommendations for 2018•• Build understanding and transference of ‘Trust the Count’ and 'Number Sense’ in the Early Years• Reinforce learning by exploring mathematical concepts and strategies in different ways => transferrable,embedded• Incorporate elements of Di Siemen’s Big Ideas in Number, John Van De Walle's work and Ann Baker’s NaturalMaths to compliment our BANB7 philosophy of learning• Moderation – assess learner achievement and evaluate learning design• Authentic inks with STEM

NAPLAN Progress dataOur 2017 NAPLAN data has shown good growth in Reading from our learners and especially in our Year 5-7’s. Our aimis to have more students in the upper growth level and less in the low growth. The longer we have our children with usthe better their growth.As you can see by the NAPLAN Proficiency graphs in Reading we had more learners achieved the DECD SEA( Standard of Educational Achievement) than in 2016 except for our Year 7's. But it is pleasing to note that 84% of our7's had medium to high growth in Reading.

As you can see in the NAPLAN Proficiency graphs in Numeracy we had more learners achieved the DECD SEA( Standard of Educational Achievement ) than in 2016 except for our Yr 5 learners. The Year 5's had 77% medium tohigh growth in Numeracy.

The progression of our Year 3-5 children in Reading and Numeracy shows that 71 % of learners are showing mediumgrowth. The progression of our Year 5-7 children in Reading shows 84% of learners are medium to high growth .However our Numeracy medium to high growth for our Yr 5-7's learners is 60%. We need to be focusing still on thosechildren in the lower growth and also move kids up to the upper growth.

Our Running Record growth data fromshows 54% of Years 1 - & 64% of Year 2 - have had medium to high growth.We have identified that the Year 1's had a high number of children exiting from the Intensive English Language Centre( IELC) into our mainstream. For this reason we are undertaking more oral language activities and dramatic play toensure we are meeting the needs of this age group.

AT BANB7 we continue to reflect & act on: What we are doing? What the children are learning? How are we respondingto those children who have not learnt it and to those who are?

Since opening in 2011 we have not been under 90% attendance until 2017.

In 2017 we had 17 children with 50 days or more unexplained absence, and 8 of these children had morethan 100 days unexplained. These families had numerous support strategies and work from the school to tryand engage them. We also met with attendance officers to support us. A few of these families we have beenunable to find, but we still have to keep them on our roll as we have not received a transfer form. Majority ofour children have good attendance at school.

As a staff we work tirelessly to provide an engaging curriculum, support parents and children with ourintegrated services in the Children’s Centre and then eventually with our Attendance Officers.

Occasional care and learning together programs are key feeder groups for the preschool.In 2017 we have a significantly higher number of children who enrolled prior to 2017 and attended pre entryplaygroups with 34 children enrolling for 2018 in 2017 and 32 families attending our pre entry playgroupsessions.

The number of suspensions continue to drop. In 2016 we had 84 suspensions and in 2017 43 suspensions.This indicates that the continuous work we have been doing in studios related to Play is the Way, focus onresilience, Reconnect Room strategy and Mindfulness. Our Behavioural Psychologist has been of greatsupport for individual children who have suffered trauma and we emlployed her to work with small groups ofchildren. We also employed our Centre Care work Liz with ZOO school. Both of these services combinedwith the work that our Learning Advisors are doing support the engagement and well being of our learners.Yard play is in constant review as this is where most of our issues occur. 2017 we had 3 staff develop avariety of activities for play.

Bi Annual ACARA Surveys - to be undertaken in 2018

All volunteers, consultants, sports providers, music instructors, external providers, Governing Council arerequired to go through an induction process. As part of this (if the circumstances of their presence on siteaccording to DECD guidelines, requires a History Screening) they are required to provide a Relevant HistoryScreening Certificate or undergo the process of obtaining one. These applications are submitted, monitoredand documented by site staff until complete.Copies of certificates are sighted by the Principal and kept in hard copy on site in individual files for eachperson. Details are entered into EDSAS.

We are a very transient community due to the type of housing in our community, plus we have many newarrival. 21% of of school community have been here for 4 years or more. Most of our children that leave gointerstate or a public school closer to their home.Whilst Blair Athol North B-7 School is many childrens local kindy it is not their local school.

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