Strategic Update 23 November 2010

Topics My School website Australian Curriculum Australian Government Review of Funding Green Paper – A Flying Start for All

My School Version 2 will be available to the public on Friday 3 rd December 2010 Changes include – Expanded school profile Student Progress in NAPLAN School finances ICSEA scores Enhanced security features You can view illustrations of the new features on the ACARA website –

NAPLAN The progress made by students in each school will be displayed comparing the 2010 average results with the 2008 average results for the following cohorts Year 5 students who also sat NAPLAN in the same school in Year 3 Year 7 students who also sat NAPLAN in the same school in Year 5 Year 9 students who also sat NAPLAN in the same school in Year 7

School Finances The 2009 recurrent income and capital expenditure will be displayed for each school, broken down by source of funding Recurrent income will be shown in total dollars and in per student terms

School Finances

Concerns remain about the quality of the financial data to be published In particular, the data is not comparable across schools Information pack with Questions and Answers and a sample letter or newsletter article for parents and your community

Index of Socio Educational Advantage (ICSEA) ICSEA is used to determine “like” schools on the My School website Enable comparisons with schools serving students from similar backgrounds There has been a change in the method for calculating each school’s ICSEA score

ICSEA formula Version 1 : ICSEA = SES (CCD) + Percent Indigenous + Remoteness Version 2 : ICSEA = SES (CCD or SLD) + Percent Indigenous + Remoteness + Language background CCD = ABS Census collection district socio-economic and educational information geo-coded to individual student addresses (indirect parent data) SLD = Student-level information on family socio-educational characteristics of students sitting NAPLAN (direct parent data)

ICSEA Concerns about the new method of calculation Significant increases in ICSEA scores for independent schools Quality of parent background data – lack of validation of data The “similar” schools that your school was compared to in Version 1 of My School are likely to be different

Australian Curriculum Ministerial approval of the P-10 Australian Curriculum in english, mathematics, science and history is scheduled to occur at the MCEECDYA meeting on 8 th December 2010 There will be significant changes in the documents from the consultation drafts including Organisation of the content descriptors Revisions to content Reduction in the amount of content Still some unresolved issues – for example, achievement standards The Queensland Studies Authority is working with the school sectors, including Independent Schools Queensland, on implementation materials. Whole school, year level and unit plans for English and mathematics are expected to be available on the QSA website by 17 January 2011 Independent Schools Queensland has made a submission to the Queensland Government for funding to assist schools with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum

Years Prep–7Years 8–10 EnglishMathsScienceHistoryEnglishMathsScienceHistory 2011  2012   2013 Implement i.e. to teach, assess and report on the Australian Curriculum.  Introduce the Australian Curriculum - awareness raising, engagement and understanding. Queensland Implementation Plan – Phase 1

Mr Bill Scales AO has been added to the Review Panel Panel has met with close to 70 key education stakeholders Panel intends to release an emerging issues paper shortly Public submissions will be invited Final Report of the Review is still expected in October/November 2011 Further information available at: Schools Funding Review

Change in rates Movement in State Recurrent Funding Rates for Independent Schools 2009 => => 2011 No of Schools % of Schools No of Schools % of Schools Decrease32%00% Unchanged02%00% Increase up to 1%137%00% Increase 1% to 2%4223%32% Increase 2% to 4%8950%2615% Increase 4% & above 3218%17883%

Green Paper – A Flying Start for All White Paper scheduled for release in 2010 (Government policy) Year 7 to secondary in 2014 Changes in Statutory Authorities (Non State Schools Accreditation Board/Queensland Studies Authority)

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information or clarification of any details