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2018 – 2020 Business PlanMount Pleasant Primary School

OUR SCHOOL

Mount Pleasant Primary School’s Vision:At Mount Pleasant Primary School (MMPS) our focus is to provide a stimulating learning

environment and accept accountability and responsibility to make sure that all children are achieving to their maximum potential. Academic rigour is valued at all stages and the classroom

focus is on challenge, engagement and achievement. Learning is celebrated in all its forms.

Targets:

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Match or exceed the performance of like schools.

Match or increase the percentage of students in the top 2 bands in

comparison to like schools in all NAPLAN testing areas.

All students to show ongoing improvement in their Brightpath writing

scores.

All students, Y1 to Y6, to show ongoing individual improvement in their tests (between

February and October).

All cohorts, Y1 to Y6, to sustain a median trend above the Reading and Mathematics ACER PAT

median.

All students, Y3 to Y6, to show ongoing individual improvement in their tests (between

February and November).

All cohorts, Y3 to Y6, to sustain a median trend above the Science ACER PAT median.

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Five Focus Areas:

4. Excellence in Leadership

At Mount Pleasant Primary School all staff are supported to be strong and empowered

leaders.

2. Excellence in Teaching

At Mount Pleasant Primary School all teachers are

supported to be high quality Educators.

1. Success For All Students

At Mount Pleasant Primary School, all students are

supported to be successful learners.

3. Strong Partnerships

Partnerships are strengthened and opportunities are fostered so as to create ‘Belonging and Connection’ between our school and the wider

community.

5. Successful Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of teaching and learning, connected

through varied sustainable initiatives that engage and nurture our

students.

School Purpose:

OUR SCHOOL

This business plan sets the direction for Mount Pleasant Primary School from 2018 to 2020. Our key objectives and strategies demonstrate that at Mount Pleasant Primary School we are committed to providing a stimulating,

innovative learning environment that encompasses best teaching practices to ensure high expectations and success for every student. Working together we will drive success!

Five Focus areas are described in our Mount Pleasant Primary School Business Plan. These areas are focussed on the needs and aspirations of our students, our staff, parents and other stakeholders.

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1.1 - Promote and sustain high expectations of success for every student in the school.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Teachers deliver high quality teaching by articulating, modelling and visibly displaying high expectations for all students’ needs.

Success looks like: Visible extension and challenge in classrooms, and MPPS student survey indicate that teachers deliver high quality teaching.

Develop a shared vision and language of visible learning between teachers, students.

Success looks like: Teachers providing lesson intent and feedback to students, enabling insight for students to be self-regulated learners.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Provide diverse student leadership roles of responsibility, at a class, whole school and community level. Staff celebrate student success across all school domains and provide effective feedback appropriate to students’ learning.

Success looks like: Students participating in leadership responsibilities and celebrations.Students indicate, through a student survey, that feedback is provided effectively, supporting their learning.

Provide opportunities for students to focus on their mental health and well-being.

Success looks like: Mindfulness and meditation activities across the school, on a daily basis, as part of ‘readiness for learning’.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Continue to review, revise and communicate the MPPS Behaviour Management Policy and teach a rigorous health program.

Success looks like: MPPS student survey indicates that students feel they can learn, be respected and interact safely at school.

Continue student support services. Success looks like: MPPS survey indicates that parents and other stakeholders feel supportservices are familiar and accessible for students.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

teachers collaborate to implement and review the National Quality Standards.

Success looks like: Meeting the requirements of the National Quality Standards.

1.2 - Ensure the personal success of each student.

1.3 - Create an environment where each child can learn, show respect and interact safely.

1.4 - Practise elements of the National Quality Standards from Kindergarten to Year Two, and beyond.

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2.1 - Make informed decisions to drive high performance in teaching practices and student outcomes.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Teachers provide comprehensive assessment in accordance with the MPPS Assessment Schedule.

Success looks like: Implementation of differentiated instruction through teachers collaboratively targeting students’ needs.

Teachers collaboratively analyse data to inform planning and communicate with parents.

Success looks like: Parents will be informed, formally and informally, with regards to their childrens’ ongoing progress.

2.2 – Integrate ICT across all curriculum areas, with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Teachers and students use information,communication technologies (ICT) to strengthen,complement and extend learning across the curriculum.

Success looks like: Engagement in whole-school high quality learning tasks, programs and initiatives.

2.3 - Support and develop all staff in their professional learning.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Staff are supported to critically reflect on personalised professional practice tied in with MMPS’s improvement targets, the AITSL standards and current research.

Success looks like: Informed staff who embed strategic and operational directions of the schoolin their personal professional learning.

Evidence based feedback is provided through performance management processes to improve teachers’ practice based on the AITSL standards.

Success looks like: High expectations and standards are articulated through class observations, coaching, mentoring, peer review and feedback, supporting and/or inducting all staff.

2.4 - Support positive well-being and health for staff to facilitate their excellence in teaching.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Continue to provide a fair, supportive and equitable environment in which everyone has a voice.

Success looks like: Acknowledgment and appreciation of staff.

Continue to provide workplace measures to support positive staff health and wellbeing.

Success looks like: Acknowledgment of and support of staff, and responses to work load issues.

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STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:All staff promote parent involvement in the schooland engage in proactive communication strategies.

Success looks like: MPPS Survey indicates that parents and other stakeholders feel a sense of belonging and connection to our school.

All staff promote inclusivity and diversity through the curriculum.

Success looks like: MPPS Survey indicates that parents and other stakeholders are communicated with, in a concise, timely and proactive manner.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Liaise with academic experts to establish and provide research based and purposeful learning experiences.

Success looks like: Sharing successful strategies as a result of MPPS surveys.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Meet regularly as a school board, engage in appropriate policy making and participate in shared decision making.

Success looks like: Governance that is positive and proactive for MPPS.

3.2 - Continue strong partnerships with agencies, universities and within the ‘Applecross Network’ to share expertise and work collectively to implement Department of Education strategies and initiatives to achieve high performance – high care.

3.3 - Ensure highly effective school governance through the School Board.

3.1 - Maintain a sense of belonging and connection to our school community, and continue concise, timely and proactive communications.

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4.1 - Foster a Leadership Culture.STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Encourage staff to aspire to leadership positions. Success looks like: The majority of staff engaging

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All staff to be accountable to good resource management.

Success looks like: Curriculum Leaders taking responsibility of their cost centre in alignment with school improvement and all staff being accountable to auditing school resources.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Support all staff to be successful through engagement in ongoing Performance Development, and promoting career opportunities.

Success looks like: The majority of staff engaging in professional advancement opportunities.

All teachers to engage in Performance Development processes, knowing their AITSL standard and setting goals to achieve the next standard.

Success looks like: Teachers being accountable for their improvement within the ‘AITSL Standards For teachers’.

Provide leadership opportunities for staff to collaborate across the Applecross Network.

Success looks like: Staff participation and/or leadership in research and evidence based Network initiatives that inform self-improvement and school improvement.

4.2 - Enhance career opportunities.

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5.1 - Plan for and implement sustainability practices that engage students.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:Connect purposeful sustainability practices through shared/collaborative planning, teaching and assessing.

Success looks like: High classroom engagementin sustainable practices and initiatives are showcased.

Success looks like: Produce from the MandjarGarden is grown, prepared and consumed at school.

STRATEGY: SUCCESS MEASURE:

Embed cross curriculum priorities to address the contemporary issues that students face in a globalised world.

Success looks like: MPPS student survey responses indicate that sustainability is visible, ongoing and engaging in all classrooms.

5.2 – Sustainability education focusses on protecting environments and creating an ecologically and socially just world through informed action.

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