Catholic schools and the Catholic Education Office play an important role in supporting the Bishop as chief pastor and teacher.

Dear Bishop Robert I am pleased to present to you the 2015 Annual Report of the Catholic Education Board and the Catholic Education Office. This report highlights the service and support roles of the Catholic Education Board and the Catholic Education Office to Catholic school communities in the Diocese of Toowoomba. It describes the key activities, developments and achievements for 2015 and also contains the Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education s audited financial statement for 2015, as required by legislation. It also includes some of the achievements of our schools during this year. We thank you for working in partnership with us during the year and we are grateful for the privilege of serving the educational mission of the Church within the Diocese of Toowoomba. Yours sincerely John A Borserio Executive Director Catholic Education Office 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 3

Catholic schools and the Catholic Education Office play an important role in supporting the Bishop as chief pastor and teacher. This annual report captures the important work of the Church s ministry for education as lived in the Catholic schools and communities throughout the Diocese of Toowoomba. Our approach to developing policy, delivering services and advice, is through ongoing engagement between principals, staff, parents, parishes and external agencies. It is through this engagement and dialogue that we demonstrate our commitment to furthering our Catholic identity and mission, and our focus on accountability, openness and transparency. In everything we do, we recognise that success is founded on the partnerships forged through this engagement. The focus of our work together is helping students and staff to achieve their full God-given potential. We are constantly driving for better educational opportunities and outcomes for students, increased capability in our teachers and developing missionfocused instructional leaders. All of this requires a clear understanding of the human and financial resources available, a strong commitment to improving data collection and analysis and the development and use of accountability frameworks. A key milestone in 2015 has been the move of Year 7 students to begin their secondary education. The benefits of the comprehensive coordination that was undertaken for this unique opportunity was evident in the smooth transition for these students and their families in areas of curriculum, pastoral care and facilities. Another major achievement has been the collaborative process lead by the Executive Leadership Team with school principals and Catholic Education Office staff to create the Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education Strategic Plan 2016-2020. The Strategic Plan is structured using four strategic organisers: teaching and learning, Catholic identity and mission, continual renewal and strategic resourcing and stewardship. Principals and representatives of the Catholic Education Office discerned these organisers and believe that they capture the most important areas of focus in building and sustaining high quality Catholic education in our Diocese. In this my final year as Executive Director of Catholic Education, I wish to acknowledge the privilege it has been to be associated with the work of Catholic Education in the Diocese of Toowoomba. It is a tribute to those who work in Catholic Education that in this secular society, we can still manage to touch and change the lives of those whom we serve, providing quality Catholic schooling that is nurturing of the individuals in our care as well as of the Catholic faith and mission. I continue to be inspired by the work of our dedicated staff who go beyond to ensure that Catholic Education remains a child focussed, Christ-centred, contemporary and supportive system one that our parents and children seek and deserve. I would like to extend my deep and sincere appreciation to the Executive Leadership Team of the Catholic Education Office, Directors Gerard Hore, Joanne Segond von Banchet and Margaret Hendriks for their leadership and focus on improving student outcomes through, faith education, teaching and learning, corporate services and school improvement. I am also appreciative of the leadership of the Catholic Education Board by Dr Joan Conway and for the generous contribution of Board and Committee members this year. I thank members of the Catholic education community for their continued prayers and support as I conclude my term as leader and extend a warm welcome to Dr Pat Coughlan as Executive Director from 2016. John A Borserio Executive Director Catholic Education Office 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 5

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Towns/cities where Catholic schools are located 1 Allora 2 Charleville 3 Chinchilla 4 Clifton 5 Cunnamulla 6 Dalby 7 Goondiwindi 8 Inglewood 9 Millmerran 10 Mitchell 11 Oakey 12 Pittsworth 13 Quilpie 14 Roma 15 St George 16 Stanthorpe 17 Tara 18 Taroom 19 Toowoomba 20 Warwick 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 9

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John Borserio Joanne Segond von Banchet Gerard Hore Margaret Hendriks Executive Director: Catholic Education Office Director: Corporate Services Director: Faith Education, Teaching and Learning Director: School Improvement Services Bishop Catholic Education Board Board Committees Catholic Education Office Directorate Services Corporate Services Faith Education, Teaching and Learning Services School Improvement Services 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 13

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The proverbial use of the word busy certainly depicts the work of the Catholic Education Board in 2015. This was my inaugural year as Chair of the Board and I am indebted to the commitment of all Board members who have so generously given of their time in ministry for the Church. We began the year with direction from the Bishop to commence the process of reconstituting the Board from the Catholic Education Board (CEB) to the Catholic Schools Board (CSB). For much of the year this has engaged the Board members in the collaborative drafting of a CSB constitution based on the current CEB Constitution and Commentary, the QCEC Model Constitution for Catholic Schools Boards and discernment of good practice and the aims of the CSB. This year has also brought us to a richer understanding of our role in the reviewing, formulating and evaluating of policies. As the years progress so must we in responding to the ever changing needs of students and their communities as we discern the relevance and appropriateness of policies in support of effective school governance. Two of our monthly meetings took the form of a school visit and we were most grateful for the warm welcomes extended by the School Boards and Staff Leadership Teams at each of St Mary s School in Goondiwindi and Mary MacKillop Catholic College in Highfields. The expanding enrolments and year levels in each of these schools are testament to the wonderful work being done by the staff and the school communities. In contrast we sadly had to concede to the closing of the long standing school community of St Mary s School in Taroom. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the announced retirement of Mr John Borserio, who has, in his role as Executive Director of Catholic Education, been our long-standing Executive Officer. For over a decade John has contributed to the current and closing strength of the CEB and we sincerely wish him well in the newly chosen chapter of his life. And so, we look forward to 2016 as the Catholic Schools Board in the Toowoomba Diocese with a new Executive Officer, a renewed constitution and refreshed views and understandings of our role in the ministry of the Church. Dr Joan Conway Chair Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education Board 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 17

Standing committees Standing committees achievements in 2015 include: Staff and school development review of the School Renewal and Improvement policy Faith education and curriculum review of the following policies: - Curriculum, Early Years and Senior Years policies to create a single Teaching and Learning policy - Religious Education in Catholic schools - Faith Education in Catholic schools Planning and development endorsed working parties to undertake required actions to recommend modifications to the following schools: - St Mary s College, Toowoomba - Mater Dei Primary School, Toowoomba - St Thomas More s Primary School, Toowoomba - Mary MacKillop Catholic College, Toowoomba Finance endorsed the: - mid-year 2014-2015 budget review of the Catholic Education Office - the 2016 staffing budget for Catholic Education - the financial components of the 2015-16 Catholic Education budget Editorial provided editorial advice in relation to the drafts of the following reviewed policies: - Teaching and Learning - School Planning and Development endorsed the recommendations of working parties leading to: - the closure of St Mary s School, Taroom - an additional stream of Year 6 students at St Mary s College from 2016 - a bubble year for Year 1/2 at Mary MacKillop Catholic College commenced a review of the Opening, closing, relocation and modification of schools and other educational buildings policy to be renamed the School Planning and Development policy 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 19

Catholic identity and mission continued discernment of The Catholic Life and Identity project report to determine goals and targets for inclusion in the Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education Strategic Plan 2016-2020 developed and implemented the program, Adult Faith Online, to aid educators to gain or maintain their Accreditation to Teacher Religious Education Continual renewal continued integration of EiCE by schools and the Catholic Education Office to review and plan school improvement ensured inclusion of goals, targets and actions associated with EiCE components in all school Annual Action Plans for 2016 developed a process for targeted support to schools in response to NAPLAN outcomes reviewed the Code of Conduct Quality service and support recruited a Team Leader: Teaching and Learning employed a Western School Counsellor to replace the Centacare Western Counsellor service recruited an additional Advisory Visiting Teacher: Hearing Impairment, Vision Impairment, Physical Impairment Teaching and learning commenced implementation of the approved recommendation from the Effective Use of the Internet project including the recruitment of an Education Officer: e-learning provided funding for teacher release to undertake the work required for EALD bandscaling Strategic resourcing and stewardship continued development of Compass as Catholic Education s record and information management system trialled Compass and its functionality in two schools supported the extension of St Mary s School, Goondiwindi to include Year 7 and 8 maintained the staffing of the RE Resource Centre located at CEOT s Charnley Street campus developed and promulgated the Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education Strategic Plan 2016-2020 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 21

supporting schools in providing a strong integrated reading and information literacy program to assist with the implementation of the Reading Guidelines planning and facilitating three Middle Leader Days with the focus on Building Professional Learning Communities and the role of the middle leader organising Professional Learning at Charnley St (PL@CS) to provide professional development with the following focuses: - Spelling knowledge and strategies - Religious Education and the Arts - Using picture books across the curriculum - Classroom language support development - Understanding sensory processing and problem solving sensory needs in the classroom - Childhood anxiety - Learning difficulties - Language difficulties in the classroom - Understanding our African students - Practical strategies for managing executive function issues - Supporting students with hearing loss in the classroom - Building the Picture format to support behaviour in your classroom - Word Aware teaching vocabulary across the day across the curriculum revisioning and redevelopment of the Resource Centre Information Service to meet contemporary teaching and learning needs including: - provision of a contemporary Learning Information Service Learning program, eg Professional Learning at Charnley St (PL@CS) - upgrading of the collection - an e-library trial supporting schools through 372 school visits and 75 videoconference calls with a focus on: - teaching and learning areas identified by schools, mainly writing, reading and spelling - developing the collaborative culture of schools and a stronger focus on improving student learning - student learning and using evidence - exploring quality teaching practices - feedback and coaching conversations - implementing the Diocese of Toowoomba Catholic Education Reading Guidelines - training, mentoring, collaborating and/or coaching to support the provision of a contemporary library and information service appropriate to each school s needs - applying emerging information technologies to enrich school library and information services support for e-learning pedagogies supporting 9 Colleges and 336 School Based Apprentices through: - coordinating and attending all signups - making phone contact with all employers and trainers bi-annually - conducting fortnightly visits to each school in Toowoomba, Warwick, Stanthorpe and Dalby - hosting four employer and Year 12 thankyou events - conducting stakeholder meetings each term - hosting and attending the Department of Education, Training and Employment Training Reference Group meetings every 6 weeks - coordinating the Darling Downs Career and Vocational Education and Training Networking Day - coordinating and leading mediation sessions as required 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 23

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Catholic secondary schools LOCATION SCHOOL Toowoomba St Joseph s College 803 Toowoomba St Saviour s College 244 Warwick Assumption College 433 Toowoomba Youth and Community Learning Centre (YCLC) 14 ENROLMENT NUMBERS 2015 Primary/Secondary combined LOCATION SCHOOL Dalby Our Lady of the Southern Cross College 671 Goondiwindi St Mary s Primary School 381 Highfields Mary MacKillop Catholic College 525 Roma St John s School 694 Stanthorpe St Joseph s School 406 Toowoomba St Mary s College 856 ENROLMENT NUMBERS 2015

Catholic primary schools LOCATION SCHOOL Allora St Patrick s Primary School 86 Charleville St Mary s School 148 Chinchilla St Joseph s School 202 Clifton St Francis de Sales School 78 Cunnamulla Sacred Heart Parish School 81 Inglewood St Maria Goretti School 29 Millmerran St Joseph s School 76 Mitchell St Patrick s Parish Primary School 30 Oakey St Monica s School 157 Pittsworth St Stephen s School 132 Quilpie St Finbarr s School 30 St George St Patrick s School 197 Tara St Joseph s School 47 Taroom St Mary s Primary School 5 Toowoomba Holy Name Primary School 152 Toowoomba Mater Dei Primary School 363 Toowoomba Our Lady of Lourdes School 212 Toowoomba Sacred Heart School 242 Toowoomba St Anthony s School 378 Toowoomba St Saviour s Primary School 393 Toowoomba St Thomas More s School 358 Warwick St Mary s School 349 ENROLMENT NUMBERS 2015 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 29

School staffing Principal appointments SCHOOL SEMESTER 1 2015 SEMESTER 2 2015 Allora, St Patrick s Chris Bradley (Acting) Chris Bradley (Acting) Cunnamulla, Sacred Heart Sue-Ellen Hazelman (Acting) Cara Haig Highfields, Mary MacKillop Donaugh Shirley (Primary) Peter Murphy (P-12) Inglewood, St Maria Goretti Paula O Rourke / Tyronne Maher (Acting) Donaugh Shirley (Primary) Peter Murphy (P-12) Paula O Rourke Mitchell, St Patrick s Allan Clarke Allan Clarke Tara, St Joseph s Mary Porter (Acting) Mary Porter (Acting) Warwick, St Mary s Margaret Grew (Acting) Margaret Grew (Acting) Teaching staff SCHOOL TYPE FEMALE MALE TOTAL FULL TIME PART TIME FULL TIME PART TIME Primary 153 95 36 5 289 Secondary 60 9 49 2 120 Primary/Secondary combined 149 38 83 5 275 TOTAL 362 142 168 12 684 Non-teaching staff SCHOOL TYPE FEMALE MALE TOTAL FULL TIME PART TIME FULL TIME PART TIME Specialist support 1 Primary 0 0 0 0 0 Secondary 1 5 0 0 6 Primary / Secondary combined 2 1 0 1 4 Administrative and Clerical Primary 8 158 0 3 169 Secondary 12 35 9 8 64 Primary / Secondary combined 17 83 8 6 114 Building Operation and Maintenance Primary 0 7 0 11 18 Secondary 1 4 4 1 10 Primary / Secondary combined 1 8 9 0 18 TOTAL 42 301 30 30 403 1 The Federal Census defines Special Support Staff as: staff who undertake functions of special benefit to students or teaching staff in the development of the school curriculum. While these staff may spend the majority of these times in contact with students, they are not employed or engaged to impart the school curriculum. Specialist support staff undertake functions in areas, or are specialists, such as: student support services, such as career advisor or student counsellor or liaison officer; educational development, such as staff and curriculum development; school psychologists, guidance officers, social workers, pathway planning officer; sports coordinator

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2015 2014 ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents $8,189,393 $14,798,259 Investments (available at call) $17,608,826 $11,357,004 Trade and other receivables $1,182,415 $747,156 Other current assets $255,999 $246,344 Total current assets $27,236,633 $27,148,763 Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment $2,872,164 $2,976,030 Highfields land receivable $3,594,763 $3,594,763 Total non-current assets $6,466,927 $6,570,793 Total assets $33,703,560 $33,719,556 LIABILITIES Current liabilities Trade and other payables $2,740,330 $2,976,564 Loans $453,620 $166,087 Provisions $10,123,318 $8,949,454 Total current liabilities $13,317,268 $12,092,105 Non-current liabilities Loans $1,329,838 $1,741,452 Provisions $2,613,548 $2,356,979 Total non-current liabilities $3,943,386 $4,098,431 Total liabilities $17,260,654 $16,190,536 NET ASSETS $16,442,906 $17,529,020 EQUITY Retained earnings $16,442,906 $17,529,020 Total equity

2015 2014 Commonwealth recurrent grants $77,091,949 $75,339,371 State recurrent grants $22,764,858 $20,226,888 Other recurrent revenue $1,792,471 $1,541,096 Total recurrent revenue $101,649,278 $97,107,355 Total revenue $101,649,278 $97,107,355 LESS Salaries, stipends and salary related expenses $63,331,686 $62,173,229 Commonwealth grants to Schools $27,293,639 $21,819,861 State grants to Schools $6,941,976 $4,072,116 Tuition expenses $459,892 $488,687 Administration expenses $3,787,448 $3,769,770 Other operating expenses $920,752 $937,631 Total expenses $102,735,393 $93,261,294 Surplus for the year -$1,086,115 $3,846,061 OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR Total comprehensive income for the year Total comprehensive income attribute to the entity -$1,086,115 $3,846,061 -$1,086,115 $3,846,061 2015 ANNUAL REPORT I 33