Australia's 10 Most Influential Education Leaders-2019

School Excellence Framework
through the External Validation
Process. Narelle works to ensure that
all stakeholders are accountable for
the role they play in properly
educating the students. She constantly
strives to regularly improve the
school’s performance and prepare for
a bright future.
She is a dynamic and sensitive
leader, who aims at achieving
meaningful outcomes through her
dedicated endeavors. Her honesty,
expertise, and commitment speak
for her excellent leadership skills.
Narelle is often called upon by leaders of the local
community, media, and other educational groups, which
portrays her abilities as an excellent leader. She is a
passionate, transparent and professional leader whose
service to staff, students, community, and the NSW
Department of Education is exemplary. The school culture
at Revesby Public School can be directly attributed to
outstanding leadership and a common belief that its values
enable all opportunities for the community to connect in
meaningful ways.
An Accomplished Educator
Throughout her illustrious journey of imparting education
to the youth, Narelle has achieved much recognition. Some
of her accolades have been mentioned below:
• Narelle was nominated for Principal of the Year, 2019
and named as a finalist in the Australian Education
Awards.
• She was identified to present at the NSW Principals
Conference 2018, regarding the school initiatives to
over 600 principals to share programs, future focused
learning, innovation, and project based learning.
• As principal, Narelle was named Innovative School
Leader of the Year, 2017. During her first year as
principal, Revesby Public School, presented an
innovative project to the Inclusive Communities Youth
Summit, involving students presenting their own
initiative at NSW Parliament House to politicians and
religious and cultural leaders, as well as the media. As
part of this innovation, students worked with
community members, religious leaders in the
community and Aboriginal elders
to develop a plan to ensure cultural
inclusivity within Revesby Public
School. The project was recognized
by way of a Secretary’s
commendation.
• She has also received a Secretary’s
Award for the Growth Mindset as a
part of The Faces of Education.
This was produced as a video to
represent the Department of
Education related to the Growth
Mindset and shared widely through
social media.
Collaborating for Excellence
Under the astute leadership of Narelle, Revesby Public
School demonstrates strong links between the learning and
curriculum enhanced by partnerships between other
schools and inter agencies, where it works collaboratively
to focus on improving student outcomes. The school
prides itself on highly valued relationships between
students, staff, and the broader community seeing a greater
input from all areas in the school’s directions.
Narelle is proud of the productive relationships that the
school has developed with a range of external agencies
such as Beechwood Nursing Home, local high schools,
Filmpond, Film By the Banks, Learning Links, and
Together for Humanity. This provides the opportunity to
enrich the learning experiences and add great value in
education. She leads the school to take the learning
beyond the classroom where it has developed many close
partnerships with the local community.
A prominent collaboration is with that of Beechwood
Aged care facility. Students of the school have visited the
facility on a number of occasions to share music and
stories. This provides students the opportunity to interact
with the local residents. Additionally, the students get to
know firsthand the importance of human connection
across the generations. The residents share stories related
to their life experience and important parts of their local
history. Such interactions bring out various qualities such
as kindness, compassion, and empathy among the
students. The school lays emphasis on these qualities,
which will help the students to develop into responsible
global citizens. It considers all the residents as a part of
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