Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Welcome back, I hope you had an opportunity to change the routine a little and managed some time to relax and spend time with your children. I would like to thank those of you who have taken the time to complete the survey in the newsletters last term. Your feedback is important to us and will help provide valuable information in the External School Review Process which will occur on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th August.
The purpose of the external Review is to provide information that will contribute to the department’s strategic plan to have ‘the best education system in Australia through achieving growth for every child in every class in every school’
The External Review is an evidence-informed external evaluation of our school’s capacity to improve student learning. The review will strengthen our focus on learning by providing an expert external perspective to verify or challenge our internal self-review processes and findings, investigate the rigour of our improvement practices and our school’s capacity to achieve or sustain learning improvement over time.
The External School Review is a transparent process which usually occurs every three years, however, our last review was completed in 2015. The External School Review seeks information through an on-site visit to our school over two days by a Review Officer and a Review Principal. During this time, I will provide a presentation for the Review Officer and Review Principal, take them on a tour of our school and Campus, attend our Staff Meeting and Governing Council Meeting, interview our teachers, SSO’s, groups of students and parents. They will have the opportunity to visit classrooms and once they have gathered enough evidence and information they will provide us with a written report which will provide us with formal directions in which our school will need to implement over a three-year period. The implementation of the directions in the report are the responsibility of all members of the school community and the report that I provided is a public document which will be posted on our school website once it has been approved.
If you would like to participate in this exciting process, you can do so by completing the attached surveys and attending the Governing Council Meeting which has been scheduled for Monday 5th August at 7.00 pm in the Thiele staffroom. If your child is selected to meet with the Review Officer or Review Principal, you will be provided with a permission form which will need to be returned no later than Friday 2nd August.
Your children are the centre of everything we do and we aspire to improve student learning outcomes for every student. I look forward to receiving your feedback from the surveys.
External School Review Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DWTSL6
Parent Opinion Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GR5W5DF
Kind Regards,
Sharon Willoughby
Acting Principal
