QUEENSLAND STATE SCHOOL REPORTING - 2010 Kelvin Grove State College (2409) Postal address L'Estrange Terrace Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Phone (07) 3552 7333 Fax (07) 3552 7300 Email Webpages the.principal@kelvingrovesc.eq.edu.au Additional reporting information pertaining to Queensland state schools is located on the My School website and the Department s Right to Information site. Contact Person College Deputy Principal. Principal s foreword Introduction Kelvin Grove State college is committed to providing quality learning opportunities that enable our students to achieve within a safe, supportive and disciplined environment where we pursue excellence with all our might. This Annual Report summarises the achievements and successes of Kelvin Grove State College for the 2010 academic year. It contains a variety of data, including college academic achievement, staff qualifications, human resources information, student average attendance, and further qualitative information about the college. As a college, our students achieved impressive academic results across all sub schools with our students continuing to make a valuable contribution to the wider community. School progress towards its goals in 2010 Progress towards set goals in 2010 has been made across all three sub schools. Improvements have been documented in NAPLAN results in each of the year levels tested with a number of the tested domains statistically above the national mean. Our 12 outcomes demonstrate improvement with a significant increase in students achieving an OP of 1 3 with percentage of students OP 1-15 remaining in the mid-upper quartile when compared to state results. Facilities improvement has been a focus during 2010 with both grounds and classrooms undergoing maintenance and new additions. The BER hall project in the Junior School began in 2010 with a completion date in 2011. It is expected that this will provide a much needed large interior space for both the Junior school and college events. A continued focus on embedding ICT s in the curriculum was evident in 2010 as the school moves towards achieving its ICT index goal and improving student learning outcomes. Individual faculties across the college met operational plan goals with considered analysis of student outcomes data and implementation of strategies for improvement. Page 1 of 14
QUEENSLAND STATE SCHOOL REPORTING - 2010 Kelvin Grove State College (2409) Future outlook 2011 will see the college focus on reinforcing fundamental aspects of learning whilst building our strategic framework for delivery of the learning program. Our focus will remain on embedding ICT, literacy and numeracy into all classrooms each week. Key priority areas include the development and implementation of a college ICT skills and assessment framework, P-12 Writing Strategy and P-12 Numeracy plan. We will be exploring school wide pedagogy and reflecting on our college s vision and values. There are a number of facilities improvement projects planned. The Junior School will be moving into the new hall and a refurbished library space. New furnishings purchased for classrooms across the college and extensive internal and external painting will also be completed. During 2011 the Kelvin Grove Centre for Teaching Excellence in partnership with Queensland University of Technology will be established. This centre will deliver an enhanced Pre Service Teacher education program for selected students within the Faculty of Education at QUT whilst providing professional development and mentoring opportunities for staff. The college will continue to plan for implementation of the Australian Curriculum across all mandated core areas and review structures to ensure opportunities are in place for maximising the achievements and outcomes of all students and staff. Page 2 of 14
Our school at a glance School Profile Coeducational or single sex: Coeducational levels offered: Prep to 12 Total student enrolments for this school: Total Enrolment Girls Boys Enrolment Continuity (Feb 2010 Nov 2010) 1811 923 888 85% Characteristics of the student body: The Kelvin Grove State College student body comes from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds with a number of students born overseas. We have a strong International Students Program as well as attracting students from across the south east corner of the state to our Schools of Excellence in Dance, Football, Golf, Tennis and Aviation. Class sizes Proportion of school classes achieving class size targets in 2010 Phase Average Class Size Percentage of classes in the school On or under target Under Target On Target Over Target Prep 3 22 100% 92% 8% 0% 4 10 25 90% 81% 8% 10% 11 12 16 95% 94% 1% 5% All Classes 21 92% 87% 5% 8% School Disciplinary Absences Disciplinary Absences Count of Incidents Short Suspensions - 1 to 5 days 130 Long Suspensions - 6 to 20 days 25 Exclusions 1 Cancellations of Enrolment 4 Page 3 of 14
Our school at a glance Curriculum offerings Our distinctive curriculum offerings: Please also see http:/www.kelvingrovesc.eq.edu.au/curriculum Kelvin Grove State College is distinct in the following ways: Numerous formal partnership agreements with external bodies that give students highly specialised and at times unique pathways. Schools of Excellence (designed to allow students to undertake studies in a specialised course integrated within their usual schedules). These include: Queensland Dance School of Excellence in partnership with Queensland Ballet. s 11 and 12 leading to a Diploma in Dance. s 8 10 foundation for the years 11 and 12 program. Queensland Aviation School of Excellence in partnership with Griffith University and the Royal Queensland Aero Club. s 11 and 12 successful graduates are eligible for direct entry (regardless of OP) into the Bachelor of Aviation offered at Griffith University. Queensland Golf School of Excellence in partnership with the Queensland Golf Unions for 8 to 12. Schools of Excellence in Tennis and Football (soccer) in partnership with Tennis Queensland and Football Queensland. 6 & 7 High Achiever Program for high achieving students in English, Maths, Science, Art, Music, Business and Technology. 8 and 9 Academic Achiever Program for students with high ability in Literacy and Numeracy. A very large Performing Arts department which offers extension courses in Drama, Dance and Music and links to QUT s Creative Industries. The college has an extremely strong Music program. As well as Instrumental Music Lessons, students are encouraged to participate in the choir or a range of ensembles. Our ensembles have been very successful over recent years in State Championships. The largest Art department in Queensland allowing students to study Visual Arts. Art students of Kelvin Grove State College have achieved numerous art awards and won many art competitions. QUT Links Students in 12 can commence university studies in various university degree courses in place of senior subjects, providing direct entry to QUT. QUT / Engineering and Education Course in 11 and 12. QUT Action research groups in Mathematics, Technology and Art occur throughout the 11 to 12. Page 4 of 14
Our school at a glance Extra curricula activities: Students are encouraged to be part of the many extra-curricular activities organised by members of the school community to access and extend their education. Some of these activities include: Social Justice Garden Club Magazine Committee Chess Club Sporting Teams Cheer Squads String Ensembles Musicals Sound & Lighting Production Choirs Jazz Group Dance Club Mind Matters Debating Drama Club Computer Club Peer Mediations Formal Committee Language classes Orchestra Bands Chaplaincy Group Tournament of the Minds How Information and Communication Technologies are used to assist learning. At Kelvin Grove State College, Information and Communication Technologies are embedded throughout the curriculum. Classroom teachers use interactive white boards and data projectors to draw teaching and learning material directly from the Internet and electronic files. Classrooms are equipped with docking stations for teachers laptop computers and almost all rooms have Internet access. The ICT strategic Committee is continuing to provide professional development for all staff to ensure currency, integration and relevance of ICT s in all learning experiences across the P-12 College. Social climate Kelvin Grove State College is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment in which all students can strive to reach their full potential. The Kelvin Grove State College supportive school environment consists of a range of support services and pastoral care programs. The following link provides more details on the type of services available in the college for parents and students to access. See also http://www.kelvingrovesc.eq.edu.au (select Support Services from the menu) The school opinion survey reflects a high level of satisfaction with support for students at the college. Parent, student and teacher satisfaction with the school Kelvin Grove State College enjoys a high degree of parent, staff and student satisfaction as indicated by the School Opinion Survey data below. Community support is also evidenced by increasing numbers of parents involved in Parent Advisory Groups across the three sub schools, P&C, official college celebrations, carnivals, ceremonies, and other curriculum area Support Groups. Student leadership through Student Representative Council, Leaders meetings and Page 5 of 14
Our school at a glance Student Forums are a feature of the college ensuring a student voice and multiple opportunities to express opinions and concerns. Parent Satisfaction: Overall, the parents of Kelvin Grove State College are satisfied with all aspects of the college: student outcomes, curriculum, pedagogy, learning climate, school climate, school-community relations, resources and additional items. Student Satisfaction: Across the entire college students are satisfied with all aspects of the college including: student outcomes, curriculum, pedagogy, learning climate, school climate, schoolcommunity relations, resources and additional items. Students in years P-7 were particularly satisfied with student outcomes and curriculum offerings. Staff Satisfaction: Overall, the staff of Kelvin Grove State College are satisfied with all aspects of the college including: physical work environment, relationships, school operations, staff morale, support resources and training, work roles and work value recognition. Performance measure Result 2010 Percentage of parents/caregivers satisfied that their child is getting a good education at school Percentage of students satisfied that they are getting a good education at school 89% 79% Percentage of parents/caregivers satisfied with their child s school 92% Percentage of school workforce satisfied with access to professional development opportunities that relate to school and systemic initiatives 58% Percentage of staff members satisfied with morale in the school 82% Involving parents in their child s education. Kelvin Grove State College has an active and supportive Parents and Citizens Association. The P&C Association has a number of sub-committees as well as Parent Advisory Groups for each of the three sub-schools. These groups provide opportunities for parents to be extensively involved with the college and their child s education and personal development. The college offers parent-teacher interviews every semester. In addition, the college provides parents with written reports on their child s performance at the end of Term 1 (mid-semester), and Semesters 1 and 2. A weekly newsletter, The College Chronicle, is provided to families via an email link and is published to the College webpage. The College Executive Principal and Sub School Principals regularly provide tips and advice to encourage parents in ways of supporting their student s learning and participation in school life. Page 6 of 14
Our school at a glance Reducing the school s environmental footprint A sustainability committee has recently been formed as part of the strategic agenda to address a reduction in the environmental footprint of the P-12 college. The college is currently working to create awareness amongst the community and ensure resource wastage is minimised. Total Electricity Sewerage Waste Water Gas Other Electricity KwH WaterKL GasMJ 2010 $168,855 $103,467 $35,701 $2,496 $23,584 $0 $3,607 485,761 9,706 0 2009 $200,021 $144,256 $0 $0 $10,786 $0 $44,979 993,792 5,285 0 % change 2009-2010 -16% -28% N/A N/A 119% N/A -92% -51% 84% N/A Page 7 of 14
Our staff profile Staff composition, including Indigenous Staff Workforce Composition Teaching Staff Non-teaching Staff Indigenous Staff Headcounts 142 61 5 Full-time equivalents 129 44 4. Qualifications of all teachers. Highest level of attainment Number of classroom teachers and school leaders at the school Doctorate Masters Bachelor degree Diploma Certificate Doctorate 2 4%1% 11% Masters 15 83% Bachelor degree 117 Diploma 6 Certificate 2 Expenditure on and teacher participation in professional development. The total funds expended on teacher professional development in 2010 was $ 74 234. The major professional development initiatives are as follows: continued literacy training for s P-12; ICT release for teachers to work on pedagogical licences together with attendance at various Page 8 of 14
Our staff profile syllabus workshops to inform the writing of new work programs. The involvement of the teaching staff in professional development activities during 2010 was 100 %. Average staff attendance For permanent and temporary staff and school leaders, the staff attendance rate was 96% in 2010. Proportion of staff retained from the previous school year. From the end of the previous school year, 94% of staff were retained by the school for the entire 2010 school year. Page 9 of 14
Performance of our students Key student outcomes Attendance Student attendance - 2010 The average attendance rate for the whole school as a percentage in 2010 was 93%. Student attendance for each year level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 94% 95% 95% 96% 94% 95% 95% 93% 91% 92% 93% 91% Description of how non-attendance is managed by the school Non-attendance is managed in state schools in line with the DET policies, SMS-PR-029: Managing Student Absences and SMS-PR-036: Roll Marking in State Schools, which outline processes for managing and recording student attendance and absenteeism. At Kelvin Grove State College, rolls are marked at the beginning of the day and unexplained absences are reported to parents via text message to mobile phones. Class rolls are marked every period and post-lunch time attendance is reported to Student Services for recording. Parents are notified of continuing unexplained absences by letter and phone calls. Individual period absences are followed up with the issuing of an Administration detention. Letters of Compulsory Attendance are forwarded to parents as directed by DET policy. Page 10 of 14
Performance of our students Achievement s 3, 5, 7, and 9 National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results our reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy results for the s 3, 5, 7 and 9. Our reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy results for the s 3, 5, 7 and 9 are available via the MySchool website at http://www.myschool.edu.au/ To access our NAPLAN results, click on the MySchool link above. You will then be taken to the My School website with the following Find a school text box. Where it says Search by school name, type in the name of the school whose NAPLAN results you wish to view, and select <GO>. Read and follow the instructions on the next screen; you will be asked to accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before being able to access NAPLAN data. If you are unable to access the internet, please contact the school for a paper copy of our school s NAPLAN results. Page 11 of 14
Performance of our students Achievement Closing the Gap Kelvin Grove State College continues to utilise internal and external support structures to assist with ensuring that every day, every classroom and every student is achieving in a whole-school approach to improving learning. Literacy and numeracy support plans are data driven with students case managed to proactively manage attendance, retention, achievement and workforce capacity. Attainment and Achievement 12 Apparent retention rates 10 to 12. 12 student enrolment as a percentage of the 10 student cohort. 110% Outcomes for our 12 cohort of 2010 Number of students receiving a Senior Statement. 215 Number of students awarded a Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement (QCIA). 0 Number of students receiving an Overall Position (OP). 128 Number of students who are completing/continuing a School-based Apprenticeship or Traineeship (SAT). Number of students awarded one or more Vocational Educational Training (VET) qualifications. Number of students awarded an Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) Certificate II or above. Number of students awarded a Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) at the end of 12. 37 84 64 171 Number of students awarded an International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD). 0 Percentage of OP/ IBD eligible students with OP 1-15 or an IBD. 73% Percentage of 12 students who are completing or completed a SAT or were awarded one or more of the following: QCE, IBD, VET qualification. Percentage of Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) applicants receiving an offer. 85% 85% Page 12 of 14
Performance of our students Overall Position Bands (OP) Number of students in each Band for OP 1 to 25. OP 1-5 OP 6-10 OP 11-15 OP 16-20 OP 21-25 21 32 40 30 5 Vocational Educational Training qualification (VET) Number of students awarded certificates under the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF). Certificate I Certificate II Certificate III or above 20 20 53 Those qualifications listed above as a Certificate I were attained in Information Technologies. Attainment in Certificates II,III and above were drawn from a variety of vocational areas. Post-school destination information At the time of publishing this School Annual Report, the results of the 2010 12 post-school destinations survey, Next Step Student Destination Report for the school were not available. Information about these post-school destinations of our students will be incorporated into this Report in September. Early leavers information Early leavers from Kelvin Grove State College are predominantly made up of International students and those students whose parents are visiting academics at nearby QUT. Other members of the student population who leave prior to completing post compulsory schooling are engaged in employment based training. Page 13 of 14
NEXT STEP 2011 STUDENT DESTINATIONS Kelvin Grove State College Introduction This report is based on the findings of the Queensland Government Next Step survey, which targeted all students who completed 12 and gained a Senior Statement in 2010, whether they attended a Government, Catholic or independent school, or a TAFE secondary college. The Office of the Government Statistician conducted the survey between 4 April and 16 May 2011, approximately six months after the young people left school. Responses were predominantly collected via computer-assisted telephone interviewing with an online and paper-based survey collected from a small number of students for whom telephone details were not available. The statewide and regional reports of the Next Step survey can be located at the Next Step website at www.education.qld.gov.au/nextstep Response rate for Kelvin Grove State College Table 1 below reports the response rate for Kelvin Grove State College. It expresses the number of respondents from this school, as a percentage of all 12 completers attending Kelvin Grove State College in 2010. It has not been possible to ascertain how representative these responses are of all students at this school. Table 1 Survey response rate Number of respondents Number of students who completed 12 Response rate (%) 197 245 80.4 Definitions of main destinations The pathways of 12 completers were categorised into ten main destinations. Respondents who were both studying and working were reported as studying for their main destination. A table defining these categories can be found in the statewide report at www.education.qld.gov.au/nextstep Summary of findings In 2011, 65.5 per cent of young people who completed their 12 at Kelvin Grove State College in 2010 continued in some recognised form of education and training in the year after they left school. The most common study destination was university (40.6 per cent). The combined VET study destinations accounted for 24.9 per cent of respondents, including 19.8 per cent in campus-based VET programs, with 12.2 per cent of 12 completers entering programs at Certificate IV level or higher. 5.1 per cent commenced employment-based training, either as an apprentice (2.5 per cent) or trainee (2.5 per cent). In addition to the above study destinations, a further 12.7 per cent of respondents from this school deferred a tertiary offer in 2011 (deferrers are shown in Figure 1 in their current destination). 34.5 per cent did not enter post-school education or training, and were either employed (23.4 per cent), seeking work (10.2 per cent) or neither studying nor in the labour force (1.0 per cent). Figure 1 Main destinations of 12 completers 11.7% 11.7% 10.2% 2.5% 2.5% 6.6% 1.0% 1.0% 12.2% 40.6% University (degree) (40.6%) VET Cert IV+ (12.2%) * VET Cert III (1.0%) * VET Cert I-II/other (6.6%) * Apprentice (2.5%) * Trainee (2.5%) * Working FT (11.7%) Working PT (11.7%) Seeking work (10.2%) Not studying/nilf (1.0%) * included in VET total VET total = 24.9%