Annual Report 2012
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
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 Page HIGHLIGHTS Governance The Board of Governance Education met eight times in 2012. 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 2009. 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 2013. 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 2013. 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.
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 2013. 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 2014. BELOW: Artist s impression of Special Assistance School, Cooktown
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 2015. 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.
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 Page STATISTICS Catholicity 2012 2011 2010 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 7 195 Babinda St Rita's Mr Gavin Rick P 7 40 Bentley Park St Therese's Mr Kevin Browning P 7 675 Cairns St Augustine's College Br Bill Sullivan 8 12 630 Cairns St Monica's College Ms Kristen Sharpe 8 12 545 Dimbulah St Anthony's Mrs Katrina Miller P 7 77 Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians Mr Nigel Bird P 7 561 Gordonvale St Michael's Mrs Lea Martin P 7 264 Herberton Mount St Bernard College Mr Luke Reed 8 12 162 Innisfail Good Counsel Primary Mr Liam Kenny P 7 331 Innisfail Good Counsel College Mr Paul Keenan 8 12 543 Manunda St Francis Xavier s Mr Brendon Alexander P 7 558 Mareeba St Thomas s Mrs Rita Petersen P 7 458 Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College Mr Gerry Simon 8 12 333 Mossman St Augustine's Mrs Yvonne Devlin P 7 195 North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel Mr Gerard Kearney P 7 320 Parramatta Pk St Joseph's Ms Ursula Elms P 7 387 Ravenshoe St Teresa's Mrs Mary Walz P 7 131 Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College Mr Lee McMaster P 12 866 761 Silkwood St John's Mr Andrew Maley P 7 65 South Johnstone St Rita's Mrs Vicki Conomo P 7 128 Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Ms Helen Kett P 7 110 Trinity Park Holy Cross Mrs Wendy Manners P 7 480 Tully St Clare's Mr Greg Hoare P 7 170 Woree St Gerard Majella Mr Terry Grant P 7 452 Woree St Mary's Catholic College Mrs Pat Jones 8 12 811 TOTAL 6463 3786 TOTAL ENROLMENTS 10249
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 889 899 834 832 783 586 808 832 Secondary Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 TOTAL 865 861 742 687 631 Federal Census 2012
10 Page ENROLMENT TREND 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Primary 5520 5729 5980 5906 5908 6060 6151 6255 6464 Secondary 2707 2854 3051 3188 3398 3543 3483 3658 3786 TOTAL 8227 8582 9031 9094 9306 9603 9634 9913 10250 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
Page 11 STUDENTS OF ABORIGINAL / TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DESCENT Enrolments Number % Primary 441 6.82 Secondary 290 7.66 TOTAL 731 7.13 Federal Census 2012 Suburb/Town School Number % Atherton St Joseph's 9 4.6 Babinda St Rita's 7 17.5 Bentley Park St Therese's 39 5.8 Cairns St Augustine's College 35 5.6 Cairns St Monica's College 27 5.0 Dimbulah St Anthony's 1 1.3 Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians 50 8.9 Gordonvale St Michael's 23 8.7 Herberton Mount St Bernard College 101 62.0 Innisfail Good Counsel Primary 31 9.4 Innisfail Good Counsel College 33 6.1 Manunda St Francis Xavier s 39 7.0 Mareeba St Thomas s 26 5.7 Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College 14 4.2 Mossman St Augustine's 25 12.8 North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel 10 3.1 Parramatta Pk St Joseph's 41 10.6 Ravenshoe St Teresa's 14 10.7 Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College 40 2.5 Silkwood St John's 2 3.1 South Johnstone St Rita's 4 3.1 Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 76 69.1 Trinity Park Holy Cross 4 0.8 Tully St Clare's 20 11.8 Woree St Gerard Majella 20 4.4 Woree St Mary's Catholic College 57 7.0 TOTAL 731 7.1
12 Page STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Enrolments Number % Primary 118 1.83 Secondary 77 2.03 TOTAL 195 1.90 Federal Census 2012
Page 13 YEAR 12 OUTCOMES Overall - % Cairns Cairns Indigenous QLD Catholic 2012 2011 2010 2012 2011 2010 2012 2011 2010 Received a QCE 92 91 86 88 83 69 91 90 89 Op eligible 73.8 80 73 47 48 41 68 69 68 VET 47 45 45 55.8 38 41 57 53 48 No qual 2.1 2.5 3.6 8.8 6.9 16.6 Not available Received a QCE - % 2012 2011 2010 All 92 91 86 Indigenous 90 83 69 St Mary s 93 85 74 St Andrew s 94 92 91 St Augustine s 94 96 94 St Monica s 91 88 88 Good Counsel College 82 94 90 St Stephen s 91 94 81 Mount St Bernard 100 100 92
14 Page OP Eligible - % 2012 2011 2010 All 73.8 80 73 Indigenous 47 48 41 St Mary s 69 82 78 St Andrew s 74 87 82 St Augustine s 85 86 80 St Monica s 88 86 76 Good Counsel College 64 69 61 St Stephen s 53 59 44 Mount St Bernard 31 35 15 Students in OP bands - Number Cohort OP Bands 1 s 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-25 St Mary s 138 0 19 22 34 21 St Andrew s 127 4 24 21 26 23 St Augustine s 113 7 24 29 24 19 St Monica s 105 5 19 23 28 23 Good Counsel College 81 0 11 15 18 8 St Stephen s 45 1 5 14 4 1 Mount St Bernard 13 0 1 2 1 0 TOTAL 622 17 103 126 135 95 As % of OP Eligible (459) 73.8% 3.7% 22.44% 27.45% 29.41% 20.70%
Page 15 VET Cert I - IV - % 2012 2011 All 47 45 Indigenous 53 38 St Mary s 48.5 33 St Andrew s 66 59 St Augustine s 6 11 St Monica s 29 28 Good Counsel College 67 36 St Stephen s 89 50 Mount St Bernard 100 100 Destinations - % 2012 2011 University 46 36 VET Cert IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma 3.5 3 VET Cert III/Studying Certificate III 3 3 VET Cert I-II/Studying Certificate I or II 2 3 Apprentice 8.5 9 Trainee 2.5 5 Working full-time 14.5 17 Working part-time 15 18 Seeking work 4.5 5 Not studying and not in the labour force 1 1
16 Page NAPLAN RESULTS Overall Numeracy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3 Mean 373 381 395 Participation Rate 97 95 95 Year 5 Mean 480 476 488 Participation Rate 97 95 96 Year 7 Mean 534 532 538 Participation Rate 97 95 95 Year 9 Mean 584 575 584 Participation Rate 96 92 92 Overall Literacy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3 Mean 400 405 418 Participation Rate 97 95 95 Year 5 Mean 472 473 488 Participation Rate 97 95 96 Year 7 Mean 517 529 537 Participation Rate 97 95 95 Year 9 Mean 570 561 569 Participation Rate 96 92 92 Mean Growth - Numeracy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3, 2010 to Year 5, 2012 107 105 86 Year 5, 2010 to Year 7, 2012 60 69 56 Year 7, 2010 to Year 9, 2012 25 40 43 Mean Growth - Literacy Cairns Qld Australia Year 3, 2010 to Year 5, 2012 97 93 64 Year 5, 2010 to Year 7, 2012 59 69 49 Year 7, 2010 to Year 9, 2012 25 38 42
Page 17 Our Staff NUMBERS 2012 2011 Total Staff Employed 1923 1800 CES Office & Professional Services 90 81 Schools Teachers 811 820 Relief Teachers 280 162 Non-Teaching 575 567 Boarding Staff 47 51 OSHC 120 119 FTE Teachers 615.47 673.3 Support 348.96 300.6 Total 964.43 973.9 New Staff Total 387 368 LEAVE TAKEN 2012 2011 Sick Days Teaching 4210.31 3512.58 Non-Teaching 2655.08 2530.70 Unpaid Leave (Short Term) Days Teaching 732.32 Non-Teaching 1426 1584.74 Maternity Leave Number of Staff 41 42 Unpaid Leave (Long Term) Number of Staff 74 59 Terminations 336 367 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 328 22.00 Female 1163 78.00 Number of Staff 637 Multiple Roles 34 Permanent 382 59.96 Casual 114 17.90 Fixed Term 141 22.14 Male 119 18.68 Female 518 81.32 Male 30 37.04 Female 51 62.96 Male 179 23.16 Female 594 76.84 Staff in Leadership roles (Principals, DP, APRE, APA) Teaching Staff (includes PARs) PARs Male 60 42.25 Female 82 57.75
18 Page FINANCIALS Income and Expenditure PRIMARY SYSTEM & CATHOLIC EDUCATION SERVICES Income $ % Private 3,794,800 3.77% State Grants 23,876,300 23.70% Federal Grants 73,064,598 72.53% Total Income 100,735,698 100.00% Expenditure $ % Salaries 34,399,994 34.76% Salary On-Costs 4,792,545 4.84% Targeted Grant Expenditure 5,783,135 5.84% Transfer of Recurrent Grants to Colleges 47,927,004 47.58% Other 6,055,072 6.06% Total Expenditure 98,957,750 98.24% Net Surplus 1,777,948 1.76% 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 3,774,540 518,270 - - - 1,975,918 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
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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