Explicit improvement agenda

Recently the leadership team attended a day of professional learning around the feedback from the North Queensland review. One of the recommendations was to refine the work with a sharper and narrower, precise focus. During the day we spent time working on our draft Annual Implementation Plan for 2020. We noted that in our whole school review two years ago a recommendation was to refine and sharpen our Explicit Improvement Agenda. Taking on board all of this information allowed some clarity for ourselves. We believe that it is important to sharpen our focus this year and that staff, students and families know exactly what we are focusing on and where we see ourselves at the end of 2020.

I believe that we have narrowed our focus into two areas. “Reading” and “Problem solving”. We want to improve the learning outcomes for all our students in this area in 2020. The school has set 3-4 strategies for each of these areas to simplify and outline the core work. Can I share that all the capacity building and professional learning that will occur in these two areas this year will be explicitly unpacked with students, staff and families. It is vital our community is aware and included in this important work. At this week’s staff meeting we are going to brainstorm and agree on what a successful reader and problem solver will look like at the end of 2020. This will enable us to backtrack the right professional learning, strategies, capacity building and markers to tell us we are on the right track.

ARD visit

Last week we hosted Graham Foster our newly appointed Assistant Regional Director for his first visit to the school for 2020. Graham enjoyed “classroom walkthroughs” to the Yr.6, 5 and 4 classrooms. During the visit we asked students what they know about the Writing task so far? How they were going? and how they could improve?

Students were confident to talk their classroom learning walls and share evidence of the learning in their book work. We saw a high standard of setting out and great practices across the classes to support the learner.

We spent time as a leadership team and discussed the various roles commissioned this year to directly target our areas to improve. It was a great opportunity for Graham to meet our new staff and team leaders. Graham will return again this term and look forward to share how our work is progressing.

Looking forward to sharing more great stories happing in our school over the next fortnight. Until then have a wonderful couple of weeks.

I believe in:
Hard Work

Honesty

Transparency