AGM June

2014Bethany Christian School

Vision

To excel in Christian education and character, inspiring greatness, while serving communities and impacting nations

Values

Term 1 - Love, Grace Forgiveness, Truth, Learning

Term 2 - Vision, Faith, Leadership, Accountability, Service

Term 3 - Respect, Obedience, Responsibility, Integrity, Excellence, Righteousness

Term 4 - Discipleship, Compassion, Humility, Perseverance, Generosity, Justice

Principal’s Tour

2012 13th August - 30 families

2012 5th November - 35 families

2013 4th March - 35 families

2013 27th May - 38 families

2013 19th August - 34 families

2013 11th November - 42 families

2014 3rd March - 38 families

2014 26th May - 45 families

Student Attendance

91% - 2009

94% - 2010

98% - 2011

94% - 2012

93% - 2013

Nationalities Represented for 2012

Australia

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle East

Other

Australia 292

Africa 14

Asia 173

Europe 44

Middle East 2

Other 9

Nationalities Represented for 2013

Australia

Africa

Aisan

Europe

Middle East

Other

Australia 350

Africa 6

Asia 146

Europe 42

Middle East 3

Other 5

69

76

248

17

29

41

6

5

68

68

232

20

27

37

8

6

2013 2012

Catchment Areas

Staff 2013: Teaching

2014 2013 2012 2011

Full time

teaching

Female20 16 17 17

Full time

teaching

Male5 6 6 8

Part time

Teaching staff

Female11 11 10 8

Part time

teaching

Male3 5 3 2

Staff: non-teaching

2014 2013 2012 2011

Full time

non-teaching

Female1 1 1 1

Full time

non-teaching

Male2 2 2 1

Part time

non-teaching

Female18 18 16 15

Part time

non teaching

Male3 2 1 1

International Mission

January 10th-21st 2013 a team including myself and 4 teachers visited our HOH school for training. In July 6th-19th 2013, We officially opened our School as our building were completed. We held our first Indonesian parent meeting. We started with 4 classes and 84 children.

StudentLearning

Projects for 2013

During 2013 we undertook a number of initiatives that;

• support students at risk to understand that reading is

about thinking, through building teacher capacity in

reading strategies, understanding, practice and

assessment.

• improve and measure student outcomes in writing

using the EALD Scope and Scales Tool to build teacher

capacity in what makes up a good writer. The use of

this tool is to assist an evidence based approach to

assessing and explicitly teaching the strategies for

improved writing.

Projects 2013

• Australian Government Improving Literacy and

Numeracy Partnership (ILNNP)

• Allied Health Initiative

• More Support for Students with Disability (MSSD)

• Nationally Consistent Data Collection of data on school

students with disability (NCCD)

• Improving Literacy/Numeracy Outcomes

• Ipads for Special Needs

• Australian Government Quality Teacher program

(AGQTP)

Projects 2013

• CSA State Council

• AISSA Leadership Program

• The Australian Curriculum: creating capacity for

transformation in schools

• Introduction to Indonesian- University of Adelaide

• Awarded with the Noel Volk Award

Administration

TRT (Temporary Relief Teacher)Events/TimetablesStudent Teacher/Work ExperienceProjectsCalendarNewsletterStaff HandbookStudent Wellbeing

Behaviour

Student Leadership

Communication

Deputy Principal

Student/Parent/Staff/ Community Liaison

Complaints managementParent meetingsMediationLiaise with Salisbury Neighbourhood Policing Team – ParalowieInduction of Parent VolunteersSchool Council member

Deputy Principal

• In 2013 Adaptive Education continued to consolidate and refine many processes regarding student support, teacher support and assessments.

• Some notable additional projects were undertaken. It was a pleasure to be a part of projects that reflected the heart of Bethany Christian School toward it’s students.

• Allied Health Initiative through the More Support For Students with Disabilities Project

• iPad Provision through the More Support For Students with Disabilities Project

• Representation of South Australia in the Examples of Quality Inclusive Teaching arm of ACARA (Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority

• Nationally Consistent Collection Of Data

Adaptive Education

Curriculum and Coaching

• We have been steadily rewriting our Curriculum units to include robust teaching methodology. For example differentiation opportunities, assessment and success criteria, and learning intentions, in line with the National Curriculum.

• Growth Coaching

• Teacher Development- using AITSL proficiency framework

• Targeted In-School Professional Development

• Data analysis to direct future Professional Development

Curriculum and Coaching

• National Partnerships-Numeracy focus

• Australian curriculum presentation

• Using data presentation

• Invitation from ACARA to participate in SWD curriculum trial.

• AGQTP-Science

ICT Developments

Upgrade of infrastructure:• Gigabit switches and Aruba wireless network

• 2 Server hosts and a 10 TB SAN storage and virtualised all for our previous servers to ensure less downtime, more redundancy, reliability and speed.

• Explored and deployed new Backup software (Shadow Protect)

• Added 2 new wimax internet connections taking us from 4mb/s to 24mb/s.

Future plans include

• Exploring Civica education suite to replace School Pro.

iPad development

• We have deployed a trolley of 19 iPads in the library with a range of books and apps to help with resource based learning and for class research projects.

• We have deployed a trolley of 10 iPads in the Adaptive Education area to assist in the support of our students with special needs.

• The BYOD iPad trial for year 5's has been an overwhelming success with 58 out of 60 students bringing a device to school in the first term of the trial.

• We had a parent meeting at the end of 2012 to discuss year 5 iPad

The majority of staff now use and own an iPad through our salary sacrifice program.

Sporting Achievements

Bethany Christian School made up 33% of Salisbury SAPSASA squad.

A number of students have been selected in the District squad for SAPSASA.

Many of our students have participated in the SACSA state teams.

55% of our students participate voluntarily in our Sports Programs.

Extra Curricular Activities

Instrumental music lessons

Choir

Chess club

Dance

Sporting Teams

TESOL Parent workshops

The Church at Bethany

Our partnership has continued to be strengthened as we work together with 'The Church at Bethany' providing opportunities for support for students and families.

Chaplain - Mr Daniel Hill

Tea and Tissues

Playgroup

Sean W Smith Concert

Ateam Youth

Parents & Friends

Fundraising

Autumn Fair

Sausage Sizzle

Fun Run

Mothers Day/ Fathers Day stall

Year 6 Graduation

Christmas Concert