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Strategic Improvement Plan 2021-2024
Bennett Road Public School 4285
Page 1 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021School vision and context
School vision statement School context
Bennett Road Public School is committed to delivering a whole school approach to engage Bennett Road Public School is situated within the Eastern Creek group of schools. The
and challenge students in integrated personalised learning programs. Utilising high school has a current enrolment of 648 students including 17% who identify as Aboriginal
expectations, problem solving and critical and creative thinking, we empower students to and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) and 37% with a language background other than English.
transfer their knowledge and skills into real life practices to lead and succeed. Building a The school employs an Aboriginal Education Officer to support learning for our ATSI
positive and inclusive partnership with the school community, we celebrate success, students. There are 23 mainstream classes, 4 fully integrated support classes, 2 of which
embrace change and promote lifelong learning for all. cater for multi-categorical disabilities, 1 mild intellectual class and 1 behavioural and
emotional disturbance class. Due to the identification of learning potential, 2020 saw the
introduction of 2 enrichment classes across years 2 -5 and due to its great success, we
have now seen the inclusion of a further class being offered in the early years.
Our students come from a range of low socio-economic backgrounds. We provide authentic
partnerships that engage the whole school community in the life of the school through the
work of our highly impactful school chaplain. This is evident through the significant
representation of parents and carers at all school events including assemblies, ceremonies
and celebrations. The Parent and Citizen Association plays a dynamic and supportive role
within the school community. The school has a focus on learning and support provisions
that provide targeted interventions that aim to maximise learning outcomes for our school
community. Through the implementation of the Strategic Improvement Plan, the school
aims to increase parental engagement in learning, achievement and educational pathways.
Bennett Road implements a Positive Behaviour for Learning framework that is continuously
adapted to support the changing educational, social, emotional and physical needs of all
students to ensure that they are able to connect, succeed and thrive. Student expectations
are explicitly taught and linked to the school motto of 'Respect For All', which encourages
them to 'Move to Success'. This current school plan aims to refine the Positive Behaviour
for Learning systems and practices, wellbeing interventions and the improvement of
attendance rates for our targeted groups.
Bennett Road has had a strong Literacy and Numeracy focus as part of the Early Action for
Success (EAfS) initiative over the last 9 years. This initiative has formed a strong learning
culture that supports teachers through professional learning in their development of high
impact teaching strategies that cater for a diverse range of student learning needs. The
school aims to continue the learning culture that has been established through EAfS to
ensure the sustainability of personalised and responsive teaching and learning. The school
provides a range of extra-curricular opportunities that develop the whole child and enable
our students to excel through a range of different experiences.
Throughout the process, we have consulted with the community including our Aboriginal
community. Through our situational analysis, the school has identified system negotiated
target areas in Reading and Numeracy. The school intends to focus on utilising triangulated
data to identify learning achievement across internal and external student performance
measures. Data will be used to inform a more integrated approach to programming across
the school curriculum. The school seeks to innovate upon our current technological
practices to foster the development of creative, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
The school aims to improve student outcomes that cater for student diversity through the
provision of professional learning and development for teachers.
Page 2 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 1: Student growth and attainment
Purpose Initiatives Success criteria for this strategic direction
We will further develop data driven practices and Responsive and Differentiated Teaching • A whole school approach ensures the most effective
responsive strategies that aim to meet the learning needs evidence-based teaching methods optimise learning
of individual students and maximise learning outcomes in An integrated approach to quality teaching, curriculum progress for all students. Effective methods are
Reading and Numeracy. planning and assessment promotes learning excellence in identified, promoted and modelled, and students'
meeting the needs of all students in Reading and learning improvement is monitored, demonstrating
Numeracy. growth. (SEF: Teaching Domain - Effective
Improvement measures Classroom Practice, Explicit Teaching - Excelling,
• Teachers will plan effectively for Reading and What Works Best - Explicit Teaching)
Target year: 2022 Numeracy lessons using a differentiated approach.
• Ongoing teacher development that maximises
Increase the percentage of students achieving in the top • Stage Teams will collaborate to develop units of work student achievement. (SEF - Teaching Domain -
2 bands of NAPLAN Numeracy to achieve the lower based on Integrated programming encompassing Learning and Development- Professional learning-
bound system-negotiated target of 19.8%. technology. (Refer to Strategic Direction 3: Excelling)
Technology)
Target year: 2022 • Teachers engage in professional learning and
• The school will facilitate an effective, collaborative dialogue to improve student outcomes. (SEF:
Increase the percentage of students achieving in the top partnership between lead learners and all staff that Teaching Domain - Learning Development,
2 bands of NAPLAN Reading to achieve the lower bound drives ongoing school-wide improvement in teaching Collaborative Practice and Feedback - Excelling)
system-negotiated target of 27.3%. practice and student results. The school shares
expertise to build capacity in others. • Data and feedback inform teaching practice and
direct learning intentions. (Teaching Domain - Data
Target year: 2022 Skills and Use- Data use in teaching- Excelling)
Data driven practices • Formative and Summative assessment are used to
Increase the percentage of Aboriginal students achieving
top 3 NAPLAN bands in Reading and Numeracy to be analyse student progress and achievement.
Ensure effective strategies and processes for data Consistent teacher judgement is evident across the
above the school's lower bound system negotiated targets
analysis and reflections are used for responsive school. (SEF: Learning Domain - Assessment,
of 47.5% in Reading and 30.8% in Numeracy.
curriculum delivery with a strong focus on Reading and Formative and Summative Assessment, whole
Target year: 2024 Numeracy. school monitoring of student learning - Excelling)
• Teachers clearly understand, develop and apply a • Staff demonstrate personal responsibility for
70% of students completing Year 2 have achieved AdS6
full range of assessment strategies in determining maintaining and developing their professional
within the Additive Strategies sub-element of the
teaching directions, monitoring and assessing standards. (SEF: Teaching Domain - Professional
Numeracy Progressions.
student progress and reflecting on teaching Standards and Leading Domain, Educational
effectiveness. Leadership, Performance Management and
Target year: 2024
Development - Excelling)
• The learning goals for students are informed by
70% of students completing Year 4 have achieved MuS6 analysis of internal and external student progress • All teachers understand and explicitly teach literacy
within the Multiplicative Strategies sub-element of the and achievement data. (Refer to Strategic Direction and numeracy to students at all levels of
Numeracy Progressions. 3: Student Leadership and Voice). achievement, in all subject areas, with success that
can be measured by improved student progress and
Target year: 2024 • The school will embed a case management process achievement data. (SEF: Teaching Domain -
in Reading and Numeracy to identify and target the Literacy and Numeracy focus - Excelling)
70% of students completing Year 4 have achieved CrT8 learning needs for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait
within the Creating Texts sub-element of the Literacy Islander students. • Students are autonomous learners and reflect on
Progressions. their own learning. (SEF: Learning Domain -
Curriculum, Differentiation - Excelling)
Target year: 2024
Page 3 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 1: Student growth and attainment
Improvement measures Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
Evaluation plan
School self assessments of the element 'Curriculum' and
'Assessment' indicates improvement from Sustaining and The school will use the following data sources to regularly
Growing to Excelling. analyse the effectiveness of these initiatives:
Target year: 2023 • NAPLAN data
• Scout - Top 2 bands and expected growth, Top 3
Students achieve the lower bound system negotiated
bands for ATSI students, professional learning
target of 62.6% for expected growth in Numeracy.
analysis
Target year: 2023 • Standardised internal assessment method e.g. PAT
testing
Students to achieve the lower bound system negotiated
target of 59.5% for expected growth in Reading. • Student work samples
• Teacher programs
• Literacy and Numeracy PLAN2 data
• Student PLPs and IEPs
• Teacher PDPs
• LaST data
The evaluation plan will involve:
• Once a term, executive and whole staff reflective
sessions that focus on staff and student
development.
• Regular professional discussion guided by the
School Excellence Framework and supporting
documents across all levels of the school.
• Once a term, review the effectiveness of targeted
interventions for students.
• Regular review of these data sources to provide
clarity around whether we are on track for achieving
the intended improvement measures.
• Triangulation of data sources including quantitative
and qualitative, internal and external to form an on
balance judgement of true learning achievement in
Term 4 of each annum (NAPLAN and internal data
sources).
Analysis
Page 4 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 1: Student growth and attainment
Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
• Regular analysis will be embedded within the
initiatives through progress and implementation
monitoring.
• Annually, the school will review progress towards the
improvement measures.
Implications
The findings of the analysis will inform:
• Future actions for teaching and learning in Reading
and Numeracy.
• Annual reporting of school progress measures
against the initiatives in the achievement of the
strategic direction.
Page 5 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 2: Attendance and Wellbeing
Purpose Initiatives Success criteria for this strategic direction
We will develop effective partnerships within the school • Teachers, parents and the community work together
community that improve the attendance and wellbeing of Parent partnerships to improve attendance and to support consistent and systematic processes that
our students and promote aspirational educational wellbeing. ensure student absences do not impact on learning
pathways that encompass diversity. outcomes through a case management approach.
Increased parental engagement in learning, achievement (SEF: Learning Culture - High Expectations -
and educational pathways and interconnection on all Excelling)
Improvement measures levels of the school community that improve the
attendance and wellbeing of all students. • Teaching programs have cultural learning
Target year: 2022 embedded. Ensuring teachers are well informed,
• Communicate through a variety of platforms to build responsive and connected to the demographic needs
Attendance the educational aspirations within our school of the school community. (The Wellbeing Framework
community and improve attendance. for Schools)
Increase the percentage of students attending school
• Effective partnerships in learning with parents and • The whole school community holds high
more than 90% of the time to achieve the lower bound
students, strengthened through three-way goal expectations, values and recognises the school's
system negotiated target of 73.5%.
setting and a case management approach, ensures impact on learning progress, effective practices and
Target year: 2022 attendance that supports the improvement of student continuous improvement. (SEF: Learning Culture
progress and learning. High Expectations -Excelling. Leading, School
Wellbeing Planning, Implementing- Excelling)
• Develop effective systems and practices that support
student wellbeing. • Community are informed, engaged and invested in
Increase the percentage of students reporting the school's implemented evidence based change to
Expectations for Success, Advocacy and Sense of Personalised Learning and Support whole school practices resulting in measurable
Belonging at School through the Tell Them From Me improvements in wellbeing and engagement to
survey, to achieve our lower bound system negotiated Inclusive learning programs that build on students' culture, support learning. (SEF: Wellbeing - A planned
target of 92.1%. School based data will reflect this result. interests, strengths and diverse learning needs of all approach to wellbeing -Excelling)
students inclusive of Aboriginal, EALD and students with • An effective system that monitors and tracks the
Target year: 2024
disability and additional learning needs. wellbeing needs of all learners. (SEF: Learning
School self-assessment of the element 'Learning Culture' Culture and Wellbeing Framework)
• Identify and involve the expertise of staff, community
indicates improvement from Sustaining and Growing to and external agencies to support the needs of our
Excelling. school (e.g. through the use of a community liaison
officer). Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
• Engagement in current reforms will provide Evaluation plan
appropriate cultural and community knowledge and
understandings to support teachers and education The school will use the following data sources to regularly
staff through professional learning. analyse the effectiveness of these initiatives:
• Positive Behaviours for Learning are supported
through whole school tiered interventions and • Attendance (Scout)
universal expectations. Effective systems and • Sentral wellbeing data
practices support an increase of respectful
behaviours in all school settings. • TTFM
• Small group tuition program to support the diverse • Internal surveys to capture student, staff and
learning needs of students (Refer to Strategic community voice.
Direction 1: Differentiation).
Page 6 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 2: Attendance and Wellbeing
Initiatives Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
• Data informed, differentiated learning programs are • LaST data
effectively implemented into teaching practices to
• Student PLPs and IEPs.
support social, emotional and academic needs of all
students. • Student Behaviour Management Plans
• Stage meeting minutes
• Focus group data
The evaluation plan will involve:
• Once a term, Executive and whole staff reflective
sessions that focus on staff and student
development.
• Professional discussion guided by the School
Excellence Framework, the Wellbeing Framework
and supporting documents across all levels of the
school to be discussed during fortnightly stage
meetings.
• Termly evaluation of the effectiveness and relevance
of targeted interventions for students.
• Five weekly review of these data sources to provide
clarity around whether we are on track for achieving
the intended improvement measures.
• Termly triangulation of data sources including
quantitative and qualitative to monitor and track the
achievement of the Improvement Measures.
Analysis
• Regular analysis will be embedded within the
initiatives through progress and implementation
monitoring.
• Annually, the school will review progress towards the
improvement measures.
Implications
The findings of the analysis will inform:
• Future actions for personalised learning, attendance
and wellbeing practices.
• Annual reporting of school progress measures
Page 7 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 2: Attendance and Wellbeing
Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
against the initiatives in the achievement of the
strategic direction.
Page 8 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 3: Lifelong Learners
Purpose Initiatives Success criteria for this strategic direction
We will inspire our community to be innovative learners • Teachers and students engage in reflective practices
who are able to adapt and respond to the challenges of a Critical and Creative thinking to improve student engagement and relevance for
rapidly changing world. learning. (SEF: Teaching Domain - Learning and
Teachers provide opportunities for students to engage in Development, Collaborative practice and feedback -
critical and creative thinking which involves students Sustaining & Growing)
Improvement measures reflecting broadly and deeply in their learning using skills,
• Teacher lessons are responsive, dynamic and
behaviours and dispositions.
Target year: 2024 innovative. All lessons reflect a purpose for learning.
• Teachers and students engage in collaborative (SEF: Learning Domain - Curriculum - Teaching and
All students identify and articulate the relevance and inquiry for purposeful learning (Refer to Strategic Learning programs - Excelling)
purpose for their learning. Direction 1: Collaborative planning). • Feedback from students on their learning informs
further teaching. (SEF: Learning Domain -
Target year: 2024 • Students develop a combination of learning
Assessment - Student Engagement - Excelling)
dispositions, skills, values and attitudes to be
All students can understand and successfully use ICT successful, future orientated lifelong learners. • Students are resilient learners who display a range of
systems and practices to enhance the quality of their learning dispositions that enhance self-assessment
learning. • Students and teachers regularly engage in reflective
capabilities. (Hattie)
practices to improve their learning and development.
• The school trials innovative practices and has
processes in place to evaluate, refine and scale
ICT Capability success. (SEF: Teaching Domain - Learning and
Development - Expertise and Innovation - Excelling)
Students develop capabilities and adaptive expertise to
navigate new and evolving technologies to access, create
and communicate information and ideas, solve problems
and work collaboratively with a focus on Reading and Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
Numeracy.
Evaluation plan
• Teachers enhance student leadership and student
voice in the integration of technology for learning. The school will use the following data sources to regularly
analyse the effectiveness of these initiatives:
• Teachers collaborate and share practice to develop
and design integrated units across a range of • ICT continuum
curriculum learning areas (Refer to Strategic
Direction 1: Integrated Programming). • Surveys
• All staff and students utilise technological resources • Focus groups
to promote and implement effective strategies to • Technology resource allocation analysis
enhance teaching and learning.
• Teacher programs
• Student work samples
• TEAM time minutes on collaborative design of
learning units
• TSO timetable and support
• Coaching and Mentoring for technology support
Page 9 of 10 Bennett Road Public School (4285) -2021-2024 Printed on: 1 April, 2021Strategic Direction 3: Lifelong Learners
Evaluation plan for this strategic direction
• Professional Learning evaluations
• Collab. Inquiry - Tri-level whole system approach to
improvement. Pg 73 Clarity - Lyn Sharratt
• Teacher 'Walks and Talks' - Clarity 5 questions - Lyn
Sharratt
• Learning dispositions - student plotting and growth
The evaluation plan will involve:
• Termly executive and whole staff reflective sessions
that focus on staff and student development.
• Regular professional discussion guided by the
School Excellence Framework and supporting
documents across all levels of the school.
• Regular review of the effectiveness of targeted
interventions for students.
• Regular review of these data sources to provide
clarity around whether we are on track for achieving
the intended improvement measures.
Analysis
• Regular analysis will be embedded within the
initiatives through progress and implementation
monitoring.
• Annually the school will review progress towards the
improvement measures.
Implications
The findings of the analysis will inform:
• Future actions for teaching and learning in Reading
and Numeracy.
• Annual reporting of school progress measures
against the initiatives in the achievement of the
strategic direction.
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