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Rocklea State School
2015 Annual Implementation Plan
Priority 1. Implement the Australian Curriculum
Strategy: Principal leads the implementation of the Australian curriculum
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Arrange for familiarisation of the Australian Curriculum learning areas, Health and Physical
Education, The Arts and Technologies
Murray Branch
Strategy: Implement the Australian Curriculum
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Implement the Australian Curriculum learning areas Civics and Citizenship (Year 3)and
Economics and Business (Year 5)
Murray Branch,
Kate West
Strategy: Develop whole school curriculum, assessment and reporting plan
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Continue to develop Onenote workbook
Murray Branch
Consolidate and align the whole school curriculum framework, assessment and reporting,
and whole school data sets
Murray Branch
Priority 2. Implement whole school pedagogical practices
Strategy: Continuously monitor student achievement
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Gather, collate, analyse students’ reading and mathematics data every 8 weeks to
implement data conversations about individual student performance
Murray Branch
Ensure teachers are aware of their obligations regarding internal monitoring
Murray Branch
Strategy: Focus on high quality teaching practices
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Provide PD and coaching to ensure teachers are able to deliver quality instruction and
improve teaching practice and students outcomes in reading
Murray Branch
Continue to embed explicit instruction pedagogy
Murray Branch
Strategy: Develop and manage collaborative teaching practices
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Develop and align the school's reading program, embedding the latest research within
teaching practices
Murray Branch
Sharing of data and best practise at staff meetings
Murray Branch
Strategy: Implement and manage consistent classroom pedagogical practices
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Develop and embed a systemic approach to explicit instruction
Murray Branch
Develop a consistent language and pedagogy around best practise of the teaching of
Murray Branch
reading; making use of Education Queensland's reading resource, "How to Teach Reading".
Strategy: Implement a whole school pedagogical assessment and data collection
programme
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Employ a teacher aide to deliver LLI system to ensure timely and accurate use of reading
data to inform case management of students at risk of not attaining NMS
Murray Branch
Employ a teacher aide to deliver CAMs and STAMs to ensure timely and accurate use of
mathematical data to inform case management of students at risk of not attaining NMS
Murray Branch
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Priority 2. Implement whole school pedagogical practices
Strategy: Develop quality improvement plan
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Strategy: Improve student-learning outcomes through the use of rich digital learning
environments
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Enhance, extend and improve the wireless coverage at school to support the use of mobile Alex West
devices
Employ an ICT technician to ensure the current technology in the school is current and
operational
Alex West
Embed iPad pedagogy across the school
Murray Branch
Strategy: Develop individual PM benchmark targets for reading and Maths
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Continue to implement learning ladders across the school
Murray Branch
Ensure all children are aware of their reading goal
Kate West
Priority 3. Develop instructional leadership with a focus on workforce performance
Strategy: Develop Marzano's "Coaching Classroom Instruction”,with a focus on
student improvement
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Move from Marzano's framework and implement the Queensland state schools annual
teacher performance
review process
Murray Branch
Strategy: Develop instruction leadership skills (Australian curriculum)
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Strategy: Align professional development with teacher's professional practice goals
and schools strategic direction
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Ensure all teachers have a professional practise goal that is aligned with a Rocklea State
School's curriculum priority, reading and Math.
Murray Branch
Complete and review teachers' performance development plan every term
Murray Branch
Strategy: Develop and implement a whole school intervention policy and guidelines
to inform differentiated teaching practice
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Establish an Individual curriculum plan, in Oneschool, for all students who are achieving a
lower or higher year-level curriculum than their age cohort in a Learning Area
Year Coordinator
Priority 4. Develop productive partnerships with students, staff, parents, and the community
Strategy: Plan for the retention, attainment and transition of students
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Maintain pre-prep interviews in term four
Stephen Boshammer
Expand and maintain links with local pre-school providers
Stephen Boshammer
Strategy: Develop productive partnerships with students , staff, parents
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Strategy: Implement "Flying Start" reforms
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
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Priority 4. Develop productive partnerships with students, staff, parents, and the community
Strategy: Build professional relationships with staff and professional colleagues
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Introduce monthly full staff meetings, off campus, to engage colleagues in mandatory
training, WH&S issues and general topics for discussion concerning the school
Murray Branch
Participate in regional Principal conferences
Murray Branch
Strategy: Review responsible behaviour plan
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Engage the services of Behavioural Services to facilitate training and implementation of
SWPBS
Stephen Boshammer
Develop and implement a whole school approach to behaviour through the SWPBS
approach
Stephen Boshammer
Strategy: Revise WHSW plan
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Provide colleagues with regular opportunities to report any WH&S issues concerning the
school and it's surroundings
Murray Branch
Strategy: Review and revise emergency management plan
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Strategy: EATSIPS to improve personal and professional accountability, and
community engagement
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Participate in local community focused activities including Harmony Day and ANZAC
Ceremony for Students
Murray Branch
Establish an indigenous consultative committee to assist with the implementation of
EATSIP
Murray Branch
Strategy: Increase communication between school and parents around curriculum
and school activities
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Develop an email newsletter which communicates the school’s activities to parents and
enables quick links to the school’s webpage
Alex West
Encourage P&C members to be more active in the school decision making and activities
Alison Stafford
Investigate a Rocklea State School Facebook page for up-to-date communication around
school activities
Kate West
Strategy: Continue to promote the school with confidence and pride
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Apply “mailchimp” for the school’s website enabling the school to keep the site current and
produce a regular newsletter at the same time
Alex West
Priority 5. Improve school performance
Strategy: Implement QAR comprehension strategy and Fast Forward reading
program to improve reading
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Arrange for an increase and enhancement of the lower and upper reading resources
available to the teachers; purchasing PM readers (lower) and NLD readers (upper)
Stephen Boshammer
Continue to embed QAR as a comprehension strategy
Murray Branch
Miscue analyses will be completed regularly to ensure reading needs are aligned with
curriculum; PM benchmarks and LLI benchmarks
Murray Branch
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Priority 5. Improve school performance
Strategy: Implement Stepping Stone Mathematical program to improve numeracy
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Trial a paper free Mathematical class with Stepping Stones in the upper classrooms;
students will complete tasks on iPads not a text book
Kate West
Continue to integrate CAMs and STAMs to develop teacher awareness of students' abilities Murray Branch
and gaps in Maths
Strategy: Implement C2C multiage English units and Seven Steps to Writing
Success to improve writing
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Ensure differentiation for students including ESL
Murray Branch
Strategy: Implement Primary Connections to improve science
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Continue to entrench Primary Connection to improve Science pedagogy
Murray Branch
Ensure Science resources are current and audit the units with the Australian Curriculum
Science learning outcomes
Murray Branch
Strategy: Implement and manage actions to ‘Close the Gap’
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Review and update indigenous ICP
Murray Branch
Monitor and track any reduced attendance of indigenous students
Murray Branch
Strategy: Actively lead ‘Closing the Gap’ initiatives
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Strategy: Implement a school-wide approach to the teaching of vocabulary
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Priority 6. Using data to inform teaching practice including whole-of-school assessment and
data collection
Strategy: Embed the use of school based data from PIPs and InCAS assessments in
teaching planning and practice
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Move from PIPs and InCAS assessments for data collection and implement Early Start,
CAMs and STAMs for Mathematical data, and PM benchmarks and Levelled Literacy
Interventions for reading data
Murray Branch
Strategy: Lead and monitor the use of school based data to inform classroom
practice and planning
Actions
Responsible Officer(s)
Establish an eight week data collection cycle to engage teachers in data gathering, collation Murray Branch
and analysis for a more in-depth knowledge of their students
Upskill teachers in the use of OneSchool so that all teachers are using (markbook,
individual curriculum plans, differentiation placemat, dashboard functionality)
Murray Branch
Endorsement
This plan was developed in consultation with the school community and meets school needs and systemic requirements.
Principal
P and C / School Council
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Assistant Regional Director
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