Maitland High School Annual School Report - Millennium

Parent, student, and teachersatisfactionIn 2011 the school sought the opinions ofparents, students and teachers about the school.In addition to staff, parents were randomlysampled via telephone survey, and randomlyselectedstudents completed surveys.Views were sought on: teaching and learning;extra‐curricula; student support; school‐homelinks; leadership & organisation; and resources.Parents expressed strong satisfaction onall areas except resources with 83% theaverage for “excellent” or “good” ratings.Resources attracted a 38% dissatisfactionrating. Most students expressed stronglypositive levels of satisfaction. Resourcesachieved the strongest disapproval rating(34%), with “extra‐curricula" (81%) and“teaching” (74%) receiving the strongestapproval ratings.Staff levels of satisfaction were generallypositive, though resources wereidentified as requiring improvement, witha 51% dissatisfaction rating.School planning 2012—2014The school planning policy provides direction forthe preparation and implementation of schoolplans including the identification of priority areas,intended outcomes and targets that areconsistent with the NSW State Plan and theDepartment’s planning documents.School priority 1Learning for AllOutcome for 2012–2014To improve student outcomes by focussingprofessional learning on strengtheningteaching capacity2012 Targets to achieve this outcome include:Reduce the percentage of students in theminimum standard band, by 50%between Year 7 and Year 9 in NAPLANReadingReduce the percentage of students in theminimum standard band, by 50%between Year 7 and Year 9 in NAPLANNumeracyIncrease the number of students readingat NAPLAN proficiency level in Year 7 to17.9%Increase the number of Year 7 studentsat NAPLAN proficiency level in Numeracyto 14.0%Reduce the number of students at orbelow the minimum standard in NAPLANreading to 30.1%Reduce the number of students at orbelow the minimum standard in NAPLANnumeracy to 30.0%To raise HSC subjects with ten or morestudents to no more than 4 marks belowthe state average for each subject by2014 To reduce the difference between theschool attendance rate (87.0% in 2011)and the state attendance rate (89.2% in2011) to less than 1% in 2012Strategies to achieve these targets include: Re‐align the school to the QualityTeaching Framework through targetedprofessional learning with an emphasison literacy and numeracy.Re‐invigorated Literacy/Numeracy teamto provide direction and focus for wholeschool initiatives.Provide professional learning for teachersto further develop their teachingstrategies of literacy and numeracyspecific to their syllabus. Strengthen Learning Support Teamprocesses and procedures in the earlyand effective intervention whenattendance problems arise.Implement a system of text messagingparents when students are absent.14