Nil Sed Optima - Palm Beach Currumbin State High School
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Palm Beach Currumbin
State High School
Strategic Plan 2018-2021
Nil Sed Optima
Our Vision Our Values
Our purpose is to nurture the talents of every student to • A broad and diverse curriculum which enables all
position them to succeed in their preferred career and students to study in areas of their interest at their
thrive in all dimensions of a balanced adult life including ability level
relationships, health, creativity, citizenship and recreation.
• A wide range of extracurricular activities that
provide a rounded education beyond the classroom
Our Motto • programs which challenge highly capable students
to achieve personal excellence
• Nil Sed Optima - Nothing but the best
• Literacy and numeracy skills as fundamental to
student achievement
Our Outcomes • Inclusivity and access to a quality education for all
young people
Learning • Developing in students a strong sense of personal
Implement a learning framework to prepare students for responsibility, initiative and commitment to PBC
living in complex, multicultural, networked societies.
• Middle schooling philosophy which fosters a
distinctly student centred approach
School Community
Create learning communities that meet diverse student,
• Parents, community, business, government
parent and community needs.
organisations and university as partners
Workforce
Ensure the school workforce has the capability and
flexibility to deliver the objectives of QSE-2010.
Foundation Principles
Excellence Success
Palm Beach Currumbin State High is an Independent At the heart of our success is our school culture
Public School which has established itself as one of which is woven around our school motto “Nil Sed Optima”
Queensland’s leading high schools. PBC as it is known, which means “nothing but the best.” On a day to day basis
has a proud record of academic, sporting and artistic our culture demands that every student and member of staff,
achievement. It is co-educational and enrolment is do their best in every lesson, every day.
increasingly sought after with over 2400 students
enrolled in 2017. As a large school we have the distinct advantage of offering
a wide range of opportunities that target the interest
To ensure every student engages with these and ability levels of every student. We have methodically
opportunities our school offers excellence programs in developed cutting edge programs and assembled an expert
Academic, Sports and Creative Arts which involves over teaching team which combine to push young people to
half of the students. The close monitoring of student reach their fullest potential.
progression is a feature of the PBC experience and our
campus is organised into two smaller schools.
Learning Corporate Administration
The Middle School (Years 7-9) is focused on ensuring The Corporate and Administrative Services at PBC
that each student has the prerequisite skills and recognises that a caring, supportive and respectful learning
knowledge for Senior School, and gains exposure to environment is the foundation of success for this high-
a broad range of experiences which positions them to performing school.
make specialisation decisions in the next phase of their
schooling. Our strategies, practices and processes engage staff and
students while building positive relationships and devloping
The Senior School (Years 10-12) is focussed on connecting character strengths. It is acknowledged that a commitment
every student to their preferred post schooling pathway. to student outcomes and wellbeing from all staff is a key
It features comprehensive curriculum offerings that component in creating and maintaining a culture of mutual
include OP, school based and vocational educational respect while building the capability of all staff in the school.
courses.
Tradition of Excellence
PBC has a proud history of high performance across academic, creative and sporting pursuits. It is our intent to
continuously improve through developing quality relationships with local stakeholders to identify opportunities and
priorities and to use educational research to guide professional practice.
Major Strategic Direction for next 4 years
Focus Strategies
Pedagogical Use coaching and • Embed ASOT as the school wide pedagogical framework
feedback models to quality • Comprehensively develop capability within the following five areas:
Practices assure a core approach to • Digital Learning
pedagogical practices. • Literacy
• Numeracy
• Positive Behaviour
• Study Skills
• Collaboratively develop a coaching and feedback model
• Implement and monitor the agreed model to achieve quality
learning outcomes in the five identified areas
Supporting Develop opportunities • Plan and implement effective and efficient strategies to transition
for students at PBC to towards the introduction of SATE.
Diverse achieve nothing but their • Access and effectively use data to inform teaching practice for
Learners best diverse learners.
• Extending high performing students beyond structural
differentiation
• Use specialist, inclusion and excellence staff to lead differentiation
practices in all classrooms
• Develop extension programs across all core learning areas
• Increase exposure of the general student population to the arts
• Implement and monitor the coaching and feedback model to
support diverse learners
• Develop and implement innovative strategies to allow PBC to be a
breakthrough school in the area of enterprise
Major Strategic Direction for next 4 years
Focus Strategies
Building Strengthen leadership • Plan and implement effective and efficient strategies to transition
capabilities to empower towards the introduction of SATE.
Leadership 21st century students • Access and effectively use data to inform teaching practice for
Capacity and professionals diverse learners.
• Extending high performing students beyond structural
differentiation
• Use specialist, inclusion and excellence staff to lead differentiation
practices in all classrooms
• Develop extension programs across all core learning areas
• Increase exposure of the general student population to the arts
• Implement and monitor the coaching and feedback model to
support diverse learners
• Develop and implement innovative strategies to allow PBC to be a
breakthrough school in the area of enterprise
House and Build a culture that • Consolidate the implementation of the House & CARE system
supports holistic student • Collaboratively design and implement a staff wellbeing framework
Care and staff wellbeing.
Parent and Build cross partnerships • Continue to leverage mutually beneficial community and business
with students’ homes, partnerships
Community other schools and • Strengthen opportunities for parents to engage with the school
Engagement organisations in order • Provide parents with real time access to students commitments,
to provide meaningful routines and performance information
educational and vocational • Refine systems for the delivery of high quality customer service
opportunities. • Strengthen cluster and collegiate engagement
• Identify and create opportunities to support professional
development in cluster and collegiate schools
Infrastructure & To design and create 21st • Collaborative partnership with the P&C to create a state of the
Century Learning spaces art Library Precinct and associated facilities which will become a
Design and community hubs learning and social focal point of the school for students, staff and
to facilitate meaningful community.
student outcomes • Create learning environments that cater for the demands of 21st
Century teaching and learning activities with a view to effective
technology support.
• Explore the long term vision of a community sports and allied
health precinct to be created to support the Sports Excellence
programs.
• Collaborative partnership with the P&C in determining a Master
Plan for the future of the school facilities.
Our Key Documents • Whole School Curriculum and Assessment Plan • Responsible Behaviour Plan for Students • Emergency Management • Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing • Enrolment Management Plan (where gazetted, based on enrolment demand) • Asset Replacement • Facilities Maintenance
Success benchmarks (by 2021)
Senior School Middle School
• 100% QCE attainment • In each of the 5 domains of NAPLAN, 25% of Year 9 stu-
• 92% attendance target dents achieving Upper 2
• 20% of ATAR eligible students achieve 90.0 (OP1-5) or • Bands
above • In each of the 5 domains of NAPLAN, 30% of Year 7 stu-
• 90% of ATAR eligible students achieve 65.0 (OP 15) or dents achieving Upper 2
above • Bands
• 80% of graduating cohort achieve ATAR 65.0 (OP 15) • PBC Mean Scores above National Mean Scores in all 5
and/or Cert 3 or above domains of NAPLAN
• 100% of University Pathway students receive QTAC • 100% of PBC students achieve above National Minimum
offer of university placement Standards benchmarks in
• 30% of students graduate with either a completed • all 5 domains of NAPLAN
traineeship or having commenced an apprenticeship • 90% of PBC students achieve a similar or higher relative
• 90% of Year 10 students passing their core subjects of gain compared to the State
Maths, English and Science • School benchmark of 80% in their NAPLAN performance in
• 90% of students achieving a B or above in effort and all 5 domains
behaviour • 18% of students achieving a GPA of 4.5 or higher
• 95% of students passing 5 or more subjects (including
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