GLENROWAN PRIMARY SCHOOL

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Lets Celebrate 2007!
GLENROWAN PRIMARY SCHOOL Caring for our
Communitys Future
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• Vision and Mission Statement
• Glenrowan Primary School Caring for our
  communitys future
• Vision
• Glenrowan Primary School flourishes in a positive
  environment where children will learn to value
  themselves and others by
• Learning to Know
• Learning to Do
• Learning to Be
• Learning to Live Together
• These positive attitudes and values will
  accompany students in their transition into
  broader society.
• Values
• Our school exudes a caring and compassionate
  ambience with happiness and laughter resounding
  throughout our hallways. Visitors to our school
  feel the warmth of a genuine welcome. The harmony
  and intimacy between students is fostered from a
  feeling of belonging to a small school community.
  Despite our size, our school ensures abundant
  resources are available for optimal learning
  outcomes.
• Our school
• acknowledges every student as a unique
  individual.
• students achieve their fullest potential through
  setting themselves personal challenges.
• acknowledges the students who achieve to the best
  of their ability.

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Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Learning to Know Learning to Do Learning to
Be Learning to Live Together

• The average number of days absent per
  student for 2007 was higher (15.6 days) than in
  the previous year (12.4 days). The state average
  is 13.20 days per student.
• Prep 17. 00 average absent days per
  student (includes days in Feb. when not
  required)
• Year 1 12.. 00 average absent days per
  student
• Year 2 15 . 80 average absent days per
  student
• Year 3 12.. 20 average absent days per
  student
• Year 4 12 .10 average absent days per
  student
• Year 5 7 . 00 average absent days per
  student
• Year 6 15 . 00 average absent days per
  student
• Grade 5 and 6 students indicate in the
  Attitudes to Schools Survey that
• - School Connectedness was in the
  higher range of 4.15 out of a possible 5
• -Student Safety was in the higher range
  of 4.44 out of a possible 5
  

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Social and Emotional Wellbeing

• Building character and social responsibility by
  focussing on the values of . . . .
• Care and compassion
• Doing your best
• Fair go
• Understanding, tolerance and inclusion
• Honesty and trustworthiness
• Freedom
• Integrity
• Respect
• Responsibility

The Keys to Success
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Learning in Prep to Grade 2

• Reading mean score above the state benchmarks
  for Years Prep, 1 and 2
• Prep 82.4 of students reading at level 5
  with 90 accuracy State mean 80.4
• 35.3 of students reading at level
  15 with 90 accuracy
• Year 1 - 100 of students reading at level 15
  with 90 accuracy State mean 86.7
• - 100 of students reading at level
  20 with 90 accuracy
• Year 2 - 100 of students reading at level 15
  with 90 accuracy State mean 96.4
• - 86.7 of student reading at level
  20 with 90 accuracy State mean 94.8
• Numeracy 100 of years prep, 1 and 2 student
  were achieving at or above the expected level by
  the end of
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  their respective years, which
  matches the state mean.

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Some Highlights of the Junior School Year
School Production
Swimming Sports
15 Mile Creek Camp
Weekly cooking program
Block knitting
Getting ready for Rock Climbing
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Middle School Learning

• 
  Grade 3 AIM Reading
• Mean score for the school matches the state
  mean with 82 achieving at or above the expected
  level.
• Grade 3 AIM Mathematics (Number)
• Mean score for the school was well above the
  state mean with 100 of student achieving at or
  above the expected level.
• Grade 4 Reading
• 100 of students reading at the expected level.
  The school mean matched the state mean.
  
• Grade 4 Mathematics (Number)
• 92 of students reached the expected level with
  8 working slightly below the state mean. The
  school mean matched the state mean.

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Some Highlights of Grade 3 and 4 Year
Cooking program
Ballarat Camp
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Grades 5 and 6 Learning

• Grade 5 AIM Reading
• 71 of students are reading at the expected
  level. The school mean, matches the state mean.
• Grade 5 AIM Mathematics (Number)
• 28 of students are achieving at or above the
  state mean. 71 slightly below the expected level
  (note only a small group of students). The
  school mean was slightly below the state mean.
• Grade 6 Reading
• 93 of students reading at or above
  the expected level.
• Grade 6 Mathematics (Number)
• 86 of students at or above the expected
  level.

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Highlights of the Grade 5 and 6 Year
Making bird boxes
Wheelchair Education
Leadership
School Captains
Visiting students SA
Tree Planting
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Community Helpers
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Teacher/staff leaning

• ICT Across the Curriculum
• Success for Boys
• Positive Behaviours Jo Lang
• Sustainable Schools training
• PE Health Professional Development
• Victorian Essential Learning
• THRASS
• Middle Years transition
• Peer Observation
• Literacy Leaders meetings
• Merit and Equity training
• Student Resource Package training

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What does the community say about our school

• The Parent Survey tells us that parents think we
  have
• Good extra curricula activity
• Good student safety
• Good connectedness to peers
• Good homework habits
• Good student behaviour
• The Parent Survey indicates that we could
• improve in
• Reporting
• Learning focus
• Parent input
• We only received 25 responses to the Parent
  Opinion Survey, which did not give a completely
  accurate measure of the school climate, student
  behaviour and student engagement.

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Whats happening Next?

• Completion of the outdoor covered area
• School review and setting the priorities for next
  three years
• Exterior painting of the Warby Wing
• Improving our ICT resources to provide
  Interactive Whiteboards and Laptops
• Writing and spelling in years P- 6
• Enhanced cluster cooperation with the Snow Road
  schools ie. Oxley, Milawa, Whorouly, Everton and
  Carraragarmungee Primary Schools
• To improve student engagement through the
  development of quality Individual Learning Plans
  for all Koorie, Disability Impaired students,
  Out of Home Care and at risk students

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