Board of Governance 3 Executive Leadership Team 3 Highlights 4 Statistics 8 Financials 18

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1 Annual Report 2012

2 2 Page CONTENTS Board of Governance 3 Executive Leadership Team 3 Highlights 4 Statistics 8 Financials 18 BELOW: 2012 Catholic Education Week Ambassador, General Peter Cosgrove with students from the Cairns Diocese s secondary colleges. Photo courtesy of The Cairns Post

3 Page 3 BOARD OF GOVERNANCE Members Mr Paul Campbell (Chair) Bishop James Foley (Ex-Officio) Fr Neil Muir (Episcopal Vicar, Ex-Officio) Sr Faye Kelly (until February) Dr Stephen Torre Mrs Judy Collins (until May) Ms Elaine Jesurasingham Dr Bill Sultmann (Support role until August) Br Paul Hough (Support role from August) Jasmine Sheehan (Support role until August)) Kevin Malone (Support role from August) Mr Andrew McKenzie (Executive Officer) Subcommittees EDUCATION Dr Stephen Torre (Chair) Mr Brendon Alexander (Deputy Chair) Mrs Pat Jones Mrs Debbie Kearney Mrs Wendy Manners Dr Susan O Donnell (Executive Officer, until March) Mrs Jennifer Rockley (Executive Officer, March - August) Mrs Ruth Mallon (Executive Officer, October - December) FINANCE Fr Neil Muir (Chair) Ms Elaine Jerurasingham (Deputy Chair) Mr Paul Campbell Dr Bill Sultmann (until August) Br Paul Hough (from August) Mr Todd Kelly Jasmin Sheehan (until June) Kevin Malone (from June) Mr Paul McArthur (Executive Officer) FAITH Sr Faye Kelly rsm (Chair, until February) Mrs Trish Nash (Deputy Chair) Mrs Christine Cross Fr Martin Kenny Mrs Cathy Spencer Ms Lyn Willms Mrs Santina Keenan Mr Colin Harvey (Executive Officer) Executive Leadership Team (At Year End) Executive Director Assistant Executive Director Corporate Services Assistant Executive Director Faith & Religious Education Assistant Executive Director Learning & Teaching Assistant Executive Director School Development Assistant Executive Director School Development Assistant Executive Director School Development Secondary Executive Manager Employee Services Manager Executive Services Br Paul Hough fms Mr Paul McArthur Mr Colin Harvey Mrs Ruth Mallon (Acting) Mr Paul Cazzulino Mr Gerard Kearney (Acting) Mr Gerard Simon Mrs Vicki Bell Mr Andrew McKenzie (Supporting role)

4 4 Page HIGHLIGHTS Governance The Board of Governance Education met eight times in We acknowledge, with appreciation, the contribution made by the Chair, Paul Campbell, in working through a varied and challenging agenda. We also thank retiring Board member Judy Collins for her contributions to the Board. We thank Jasmin Sheehan for her role as Diocesan advisor during the first part of the year, a role now undertaken by Kevin Malone. Senior staff In August Dr Bill Sultmann resigned as Executive Director to take up an appointment with the Christian Brothers Oceania Province in Brisbane. We thank Bill for his contribution to Catholic education in the Diocese of Cairns since Bill brought great energy and a focus on mission to his role, reminding us all of the distinctive characteristics of a Catholic education. Br Paul Hough was appointed Executive Director in August. At the beginning of the year Colin Harvey, a former Principal at St Francis Xavier s School, joined the leadership team as the Assistant Executive Director Faith and Religious Education. From the senior leadership team CES also farewelled Dr Susan O Donnell as the Assistant Executive Director Learning and Teaching and the former Principal at St Monica s College. Student Services Manager, Jennifer Rockley and Holy Cross School Assistant Principal Administration, Ruth Mallon served in an acting capacity for five months and three months respectively, with Ursula Elms returning to CES to take up the permanent role from the beginning of During the year Assistance Executive Director School Development Tim Devlin was on extended sick leave. We thank experienced Principal Gerard Kearney for stepping into an acting role to replace Tim. School leadership At the beginning of 2012 we welcomed new Principals at St Andrew s Catholic College, Redlynch (Lee MacMaster), St Therese s School, Bentley Park (Kevin Browning), and Good Counsel College, Innisfail (Paul Keenan). During the year Catherine McKechnie was appointed Principal at St Teresa s School, Ravenshoe, replacing Mary Walz who retired after a long career of service to Catholic education. Towards the end of the year Br Bill Tynan was announced as the new Principal at Mount St Bernard College, Herberton, replacing Luke Reed who will take up a position with CES in Cairns in We thank Luke for his critically important leadership of the college during a challenging transitional period. National Assessment (NAPLAN) 2012 National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessment results continued to demonstrate that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 from Catholic schools in the Diocese of Cairns performed well, on the whole achieving higher scores than the Queensland mean. On average the Diocese had at least 88% of students at or above the national benchmark in literacy and numeracy across all grades. ABOVE: Front left: Fr Neil Muir, Bishop James Foley and Dr Bill Sultmann with Catholic Education Services staff at the front of the Catholic Services building in August. The Diocese continued to have low levels of exemptions and high levels of participation (i.e. low % of students were absent or withdrawn) with more than 97% of students completing the NAPLAN tests.

5 Page 5 Year 12 outcomes The Diocese s Year 12 students exiting school last year were well equipped to move on to their next stage of life with the achievement of strong OP scores, VET qualifications or both. The recent addition of Trade Training facilities within schools enables them to offer both academic and vocational pathways. The number of VET qualifications gained across schools continues to grow. This places the students in a strong position to enter the workforce in their chosen fields. Those students taking an academic pathway into tertiary studies are achieving substantial success with over 22% of OP eligible students across the Diocese placing within positions 1-5. This strong academic performance enables students to achieve placements in the courses and universities of their choice. Faith and Religious Education A broad variety of adult faith formation and professional learning experiences were offered during the year. APREs, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Coordinators and teachers were supported with teaching the RE Guidelines and implementing the SEL policy. The annual TREWTH Conference was very well attended and the cross-sector partnership with James Cook University and CES with the Graduate Certificate in Catholic Education continued to be offered. Many initiatives came out of the Year of Grace, including electronic conferences, opportunities for the deepening of prayer life and enhancement of relationships with other Dioceses. Enrolments During 2012 enrolments at our 26 schools and colleges topped 10,000 for the first time, with 10,249 students, an increase over the previous year of 3.4%. There were 6463 primary students and 3786 secondary students. Very strong enrolments in the early primary years suggest this growth trend will continue in coming years. New schools We were unsuccessful in our application for capital funding for the new Prep-Year 12 college at Mt Peter in Cairns southern growth corridor. This meant at least a 12 month delay in the project until a new capital application in Towards the end of the year a governance decision was made to seek approval from the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board (NSSAB) for a new Prep-Year 6 primary school at Weipa. This followed extensive feasibility planning, community consultation and stakeholder negotiation in Weipa. Aside from Thursday Island this will be the most remote school in the Diocese when it opens. Special Assistance School In 2012 the NSSAB approved provisional accreditation for a Special Assistance School which will operate two campuses Cairns and Cooktown for disengaged young people. The Cooktown campus will incorporate a student residential facility. The school is eligible to source special State capital funding earmarked for flexible learning and is expected to be completed in BELOW: Artist s impression of Special Assistance School, Cooktown

6 6 Page Early Learning and Care Catholic Early Learning and Care (CELC)opened its Childcare & Community Kindergarten at Redlynch in January. The one-of-a-kind centre integrates both long day care and kindergarten. The five room facility caters for 75 babies, toddlers and kindergarten children with both an integrated and sessional kindergarten programme. The centre is adjacent to St Andrew s Catholic College. Kindergarten programme at the Hammond Island campus of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Thursday Island. Outside School Hours Care services are offered at 10 schools with a total capacity of 798 places. CELC also operates a Community Kindergarten at St John s Parish, Silkwood, adjacent to the school and a Transition of Year 7 to secondary colleges During 2012, planning stepped up for the transition of the Year 7 cohort to the secondary system in The change involves implications for school size (smaller primaries and larger secondaries), new building infrastructure in the secondary colleges, workforce planning and communication and consultation with school families. There are particular challenges for our three colleges with boarders. While we are very supportive of the move we are also mindful of the range of challenges involved. ABOVE: The first day at Catholic Early Learning and Care s Childcare & Community Kindergarten, Redlynch Policy development Significant work was undertaken to review and update policies, procedures and directives. The Board approved new or revised policies and guidelines for student enrolment, suspension and exclusion, and cancellation of student enrolment. Shared services In the latter half of 2012 Brisbane Catholic Education presented a commercial offer to Catholic Education in Cairns to access its shared services across a variety of ICT service delivery platforms including workforce, payroll, learning systems, and school and student management. The system offered considerable leverage off the BCE investment in development and testing these systems in their schools with the offer also coming at a time when there was an identified need to significantly upgrade our service delivery systems. At the end of 2012 there was in-principle support to advance these negotiations.

7 Page 7 Recognition DOCEMUS AWARDS The annual Docemus Awards were awarded in August in recognition of outstanding contributions to Catholic education in the Cairns Diocese. School Officer Lionel Williamson, St Augustine s College, Cairns Secondary Teacher Czek Kersevani, St Augustine s College, Cairns Leadership Andrew Maley, St John s School, Silkwood Primary Teacher Paula Brumley, St Clare s School, Tully Volunteer Jodie Cox, St Andrew s Catholic College, Redlynch SPIRIT OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION AWARD Cairns Diocese recipient of the state-wide Spirit of Catholic Education Awards during Catholic Education Week (Term 3, Week 3) was chef Sam Andre from St Andrew s Catholic College, Redlynch. Ambassador for the week was General Peter Cosgrove and the theme, Celebrating Community. BELOW, L to R: Executive Director Dr Bill Sultmann, Lionel Williamson, Czek Kersevani, Andrew Maley, Paula Brumley, Jodie Cox. RIGHT: Governor of Queensland Penelope Wensley presents Sam Andre.

8 8 Page STATISTICS Catholicity Students 55% 56% 56% Staff 70% 71% 70% Our schools DIOCESAN SCHOOLS Primary: 19 Secondary: 6 Prep Year 12: 1 TOTAL: 26 Enrolments (Federal Census, August 2012) Suburb/Town School Principal (Dec 2012) Year Level Primary Secondary Atherton St Joseph's Mrs Trish Nash P Babinda St Rita's Mr Gavin Rick P 7 40 Bentley Park St Therese's Mr Kevin Browning P Cairns St Augustine's College Br Bill Sullivan Cairns St Monica's College Ms Kristen Sharpe Dimbulah St Anthony's Mrs Katrina Miller P 7 77 Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians Mr Nigel Bird P Gordonvale St Michael's Mrs Lea Martin P Herberton Mount St Bernard College Mr Luke Reed Innisfail Good Counsel Primary Mr Liam Kenny P Innisfail Good Counsel College Mr Paul Keenan Manunda St Francis Xavier s Mr Brendon Alexander P Mareeba St Thomas s Mrs Rita Petersen P Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College Mr Gerry Simon Mossman St Augustine's Mrs Yvonne Devlin P North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel Mr Gerard Kearney P Parramatta Pk St Joseph's Ms Ursula Elms P Ravenshoe St Teresa's Mrs Mary Walz P Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College Mr Lee McMaster P Silkwood St John's Mr Andrew Maley P 7 65 South Johnstone St Rita's Mrs Vicki Conomo P Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Ms Helen Kett P Trinity Park Holy Cross Mrs Wendy Manners P Tully St Clare's Mr Greg Hoare P Woree St Gerard Majella Mr Terry Grant P Woree St Mary's Catholic College Mrs Pat Jones TOTAL TOTAL ENROLMENTS 10249

9 Page 9 Our students STUDENTS BY YEAR LEVEL Primary Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 TOTAL Secondary Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 TOTAL Federal Census 2012

10 10 Page ENROLMENT TREND Primary Secondary TOTAL Annual % Movement 3.69% 4.32% 5.23% 0.70% 2.34% 3.19% 0.32% 2.90% 3.36% FTE, Federal Census, August 2012 Federal Census 2012

11 Page 11 STUDENTS OF ABORIGINAL / TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DESCENT Enrolments Number % Primary Secondary TOTAL Federal Census 2012 Suburb/Town School Number % Atherton St Joseph's Babinda St Rita's Bentley Park St Therese's Cairns St Augustine's College Cairns St Monica's College Dimbulah St Anthony's Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians Gordonvale St Michael's Herberton Mount St Bernard College Innisfail Good Counsel Primary Innisfail Good Counsel College Manunda St Francis Xavier s Mareeba St Thomas s Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College Mossman St Augustine's North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel Parramatta Pk St Joseph's Ravenshoe St Teresa's Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College Silkwood St John's South Johnstone St Rita's Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Trinity Park Holy Cross Tully St Clare's Woree St Gerard Majella Woree St Mary's Catholic College TOTAL

12 12 Page STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Enrolments Number % Primary Secondary TOTAL Federal Census 2012

13 Page 13 YEAR 12 OUTCOMES Overall - % Cairns Cairns Indigenous QLD Catholic Received a QCE Op eligible VET No qual Not available Received a QCE - % All Indigenous St Mary s St Andrew s St Augustine s St Monica s Good Counsel College St Stephen s Mount St Bernard

14 14 Page OP Eligible - % All Indigenous St Mary s St Andrew s St Augustine s St Monica s Good Counsel College St Stephen s Mount St Bernard Students in OP bands - Number Cohort OP Bands 1 s St Mary s St Andrew s St Augustine s St Monica s Good Counsel College St Stephen s Mount St Bernard TOTAL As % of OP Eligible (459) 73.8% 3.7% 22.44% 27.45% 29.41% 20.70%

15 Page 15 VET Cert I - IV - % All Indigenous St Mary s St Andrew s St Augustine s 6 11 St Monica s Good Counsel College St Stephen s Mount St Bernard Destinations - % University VET Cert IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma VET Cert III/Studying Certificate III 3 3 VET Cert I-II/Studying Certificate I or II 2 3 Apprentice Trainee Working full-time Working part-time Seeking work Not studying and not in the labour force 1 1

16 16 Page NAPLAN RESULTS Overall Numeracy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3 Mean Participation Rate Year 5 Mean Participation Rate Year 7 Mean Participation Rate Year 9 Mean Participation Rate Overall Literacy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3 Mean Participation Rate Year 5 Mean Participation Rate Year 7 Mean Participation Rate Year 9 Mean Participation Rate Mean Growth - Numeracy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3, 2010 to Year 5, Year 5, 2010 to Year 7, Year 7, 2010 to Year 9, Mean Growth - Literacy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3, 2010 to Year 5, Year 5, 2010 to Year 7, Year 7, 2010 to Year 9,

17 Page 17 Our Staff NUMBERS Total Staff Employed CES Office & Professional Services Schools Teachers Relief Teachers Non-Teaching Boarding Staff OSHC FTE Teachers Support Total New Staff Total LEAVE TAKEN Sick Days Teaching Non-Teaching Unpaid Leave (Short Term) Days Teaching Non-Teaching Maternity Leave Number of Staff Unpaid Leave (Long Term) Number of Staff Terminations SCHOOL STAFF As at 2 August, 2013 % Total School Staff (excluding Boarding, OSHC, Relief) Non-Teaching School Staff (excluding Boarding and OSHC) Number 1491 Male Female Number of Staff 637 Multiple Roles 34 Permanent Casual Fixed Term Male Female Male Female Male Female Staff in Leadership roles (Principals, DP, APRE, APA) Teaching Staff (includes PARs) PARs Male Female

18 18 Page FINANCIALS Income and Expenditure PRIMARY SYSTEM & CATHOLIC EDUCATION SERVICES Income $ % Private 3,794, % State Grants 23,876, % Federal Grants 73,064, % Total Income 100,735, % Expenditure $ % Salaries 34,399, % Salary On-Costs 4,792, % Targeted Grant Expenditure 5,783, % Transfer of Recurrent Grants to Colleges 47,927, % Other 6,055, % Total Expenditure 98,957, % Net Surplus 1,777, % Based on 2012 final audited financial statements COLLEGES & GOOD COUNSEL PRIMARY GCP GCC MSB SACC SAC SMCC SMC SSCC TOTAL Private Income (including fees & levies) 652,397 1,955,367 3,112,283 5,778,634 6,104,204 3,095,758 2,920,190 1,251,251 24,870,804 State & Federal Grants 2,927,319 7,054,170 4,085,254 13,560,144 6,610,539 9,088,552 5,727,228 4,312,696 53,365,902 Total Income $ 3,579,716 $9,009,537 $7,197,537 $19,338,779 $12,714,743 $12,184,310 $8,647,418 $5,563,947 $78,235,986 Total Expenditure 3,322,954 8,814,083 6,666,347 19,197,307 13,316,284 11,981,160 8,664,928 5,143,916 77,106,979 Net Surplus (Deficit) $256,762 $195,454 $531,190 $141,471 -$601,541 $203,150 $-$17,510 $420,031 $1,129,007 Add Capital Income 36,200 1,505,321 3,774, , ,975,918 7,810,249 Net Recurrent Result after Capital Income $292,962 $1,700,775 $4,305,730 $659,741 -$601,541 $203,150 $-$17,510 $2,395,949 $8,939,256 Reconciled - Audit Based on 2012 final audited financial statements

19 Page 19 Block Grants Authority funding School/College Project Description Project Cost School Contribution Capital Grant St Joseph s School, Atherton Refurbish administration $ 603,214 $ 60,000 $ 543,214 Mother of Good Counsel School, North Cairns Refurbish 2 GLA s $ 234,876 $ 70,000 $ 164,876 St Augustine s College, Cairns St Monica s College, Cairns Demolish building 11, construct 8 GLA s, 4 science labs, laundry and associated walkways Demolish library building, construct 5 GLA s $ 4,359,025 $ 750,000 $ 3,609,025 $ 1,846,828 $ 20,000 $ 1,826,828 TOTALS $ 7,043,943 $ 900,000 $6,143,943 Flying Start (Y7 to Secondary) funding College Project Description Capital Grant St Stephen s Catholic College, Mareeba Teaching spaces $1,210,735 St Augustine s College, Cairns Teaching spaces $1,762,932 St Augustine s College, Cairns / St Monica s College, Cairns Construct 35 bed boarding dormitory $2,479,710 Good Counsel College, Innisfail St Mary's Catholic College, Woree Conversion to to 4 x FLAs, 1 x GLA, Pupil amenities and associated walkways Refurbish 2 x Home Economics, 1 x Science, 2 x Music Dance Drama and conversion to 4 x FLAs $818,032 $1,123,832 St Monica s College, Cairns Construct 4 x GLAs and associated walkways $876,164 Mount St Bernard College, Herberton Conversion to 2 x GLAs, 1 x FLA and student amenities with associated walkway $690,027 Mount St Bernard College, Herberton Construct 33 bed boarding dormitory To be resubmitted in 2013 TOTAL $ 8,961,432

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