Western Cape College

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Western Cape College

• ARE WE BOUND FOR SUCCESS?

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Bound for Success Cape York and Torres Strait
Education Strategy

• Education Queensland has produced the Bound for
  Success Education Strategy to address the poor
  education outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres
  Strait Islander students from Cape York and
  Torres Strait regions
• There are 17 actions in this strategy which
  Western Cape College is responsible for
  proactively addressing

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Where to from Here?

• WCC produced the Where to From Here? Paper which
  outlined a series of questions to determine the
  College position on each of the 17 actions
• A Year of Focus was assigned to each of the 17
  actions
• During a Year of Focus, that action is a WCC
  priority

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Year of Focus 2006

• Action 1 EQ will continue to provide early
  education services for Cape York and the Torres
  Strait communities
• Action 2 EQ will introduce a new diagnostic tool
  to assess the learning needs of every student
  entering school
• Action 4 EQ will provide all students completing
  PREP and/or starting Year 1 with an Individual
  Learning Plan, to be revised each year
• Action 7 EQ will partner with the Australian
  Government to ensure that all Cape and Torres
  Strait Island students leaving their home
  community would be provided with transition
  support and follow up

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Year of Focus 2006

• Action 9 The Queensland Government will work
  with the Australian Government, vocational
  education and training providers and universities
  to investigate opportunities to expand the Remote
  Area Teacher Employment Program to new and
  emerging industries
• Action 17 EQ will investigate more comprehensive
  public reporting of education outcomes to parents
  and communities, including reports on attendance
  and literacy performance

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Action 1 Provide early education services

• Why do we need to be Successful?
• Focus PREP/ implementation of PREP/ transitions
  through Early-Phase of Learning
• Preparatory programs improved social-emotional
  development, communication, numeracy, literacy
  and motor skills
• WCC needs to ensure high levels of transition
  into the PREP Year and smooth transitions through
  the early years of education to give our students
  the best start to their experience with the
  education system and a path to lifelong learning
• The transition to school sets the tone and
  direction of a childs school career

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Action 1 Provide early education services

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC committed to providing early education
  services to Western Cape communities and
  facilitating and supporting the transition
  process through the Early-Phase of Learning
• WCC provides early education services at each of
  the College sites
• WCC has successfully developed working
  relationships with alternative early education
  service providers (CK)

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Action 1 Provide early education services

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC employed Preparatory Year Facilitator to
  provide training and direct smooth implementation
  of PREP
• WCC developing the Junior School Curriculum
  Guidelines incorporating the Early-Phase of
  Learning consistent curriculum across sites and
  levels
• WCC started communicating with parents in Weipa

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Action 1 Provide early education services

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Continue timely implementation of PREP
• Further develop partnership with CK to ensure
  transitions for students from these services are
  successful
• Complete Junior School Curriculum Guidelines with
  focus on consistency across the Early-Phase of
  Learning
• Continue consistent and targeted communication
  with parents and communities with a concentrated
  effort in ALL WCC sites

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Action 1 Provide early education services

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Develop a transition support program directed by
  an Early Years Transition Team
• Program GOAL children, parents and communities
  have a positive perception of the College and
  children are confident in their capacity as
  learners
• Membership on this team will include a variety of
  stakeholders

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Action 2 Introduce new diagnostic tool to assess
learning needs

• Why do we need to be Successful?
• Focus meeting student learning needs/ informing
  teaching practice/ monitor student progress
• WCC performance on benchmark testing,
  particularly for our Indigenous students
  demonstrates significant gaps in learning
  outcomes

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Action 2 Introduce new diagnostic tool to assess
learning needs

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC is dedicated to meeting the learning needs of
  all students to ensure improved outcomes
• WCC determines learning needs of students
  entering Preschool gt teacher based observations
• WCC tracks student progress across Years 1-3 gt
  Reading, Writing and Number Developmental
  Continua, Rich Task Results, School Based
  Assessment and Reporting Overviews

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Action 2 Introduce new diagnostic tool to assess
learning needs

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC tracks Year 1 Indigenous students on
  Indigenous Bandscales Speaking
• Weipa campus Phonological Awareness Screen on
  all students prior to Year 1 entry

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Action 2 Introduce new diagnostic tool to assess
learning needs

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Formalise the assessment of learning needs when
  students enter preschool/PREP part of early
  years transition support program
• Extend Phonological Awareness Screen to all
  College Campuses pre-entry screening process at
  College level

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Action 2 Introduce new diagnostic tool to assess
learning needs

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Extend Reading, Writing and Number Developmental
  Continua to PREP Tracking from PREP Year 3
• Complete development of School Based Assessment
  and Reporting Overviews
• Continue commitment to current monitoring
  procedures for Years 1-3

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Action 4 Provide Individual Learning Plans

• Why do we need to be Successful?
• Focus Transitions through Early-Phase of
  Learning gt Middle Years gt Senior Schooling
  CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
• Students of Cape York need a seamless P-12
  learning experience
• Providing an environment of achieving goals,
  generating positive education experiences and
  engaging parents is essential

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Action 4 Provide Individual Learning Plans

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC is committed to delivering a seamless P-12
  education for all students
• WCC has a focused approach to literacy and
  numeracy
• WCC records and monitors learning needs of
  Preschool/PREP and Year 1 students through
  Reading, Writing and Number Developmental
  Continua, Depth Study Results, School Based
  Assessment and Reporting Overviews, Indigenous
  Bandscales Speaking

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Action 4 Provide Individual Learning Plans

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• College policy all teachers must develop ILPs
  with all students and their guardians upon
  commencement of schooling (PREP or Year 1)
• Current and proposed student need measures
  (action 2) inform ILPs
• Life of ILP Early Years gt Middle Years gt SETPs
  A WORKING DOCUMENT
• Early Years Transition Team to develop a
  framework for constructing ILPs

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Action 7 Provide transition support and follow up

• Why do we need to be Successful?
• Focus support for students transitioning from
  primary to secondary school and through senior
  years of schooling
• Drop out rates for students during these
  transition points is high
• WCC operates in communities where it is often
  necessary for students to leave their communities
  to access senior education

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Action 7 Provide transition support and follow up

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC is focused on providing a choice of
  achievable pathways to deliver employment
  outcomes
• WCC is focused on achieving the attendance
  required to secure positive learning experiences
• WCC provides boarding facility for students who
  cannot access secondary education. New Hostel
  Manager appointed gt supports students during
  transitions.

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Action 7 Provide transition support and follow up

• Our Steps to Success
• Hostel current focus Aurukun and Mapoon
  students and partnerships with these communities
• WCC provides resource and in-kind support to
  Transition Support Unit
• WCC concentrated effort to transition students to
  secondary education e.g.- transition classes,
  student tracking

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Action 7 Provide transition support and follow up

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Continue concentrated effort to support students
  transitioning
• Further develop relationships with families,
  community groups and business
• Develop and formalise mechanisms to catch
  students dropping out of senior education across
  all communities

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Action 9 Expand RATEP to new and emerging
industries

• Focus engaging students in education by
  generating pathways beyond senior schooling
• Post-school pathways need to be available and
  accessible so students can make informed
  decisions
• WCC senior schooling pathways are improving and a
  focused effort on building productive
  partnerships with business and industry to
  generate pathways is a positive move forward

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Action 9 Expand RATEP to new and emerging
industries

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC committed to developing partnerships with
  communities, industry and business to ensure
  successful transitions into pathways
• WCC actively promotes RATEP in all its
  communities
• WCC is beginning to focus on external
  communication processes and messages with
  business and industry

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Action 9 Expand RATEP to new and emerging
industries

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC has a positive partnership with TAFE and is
  currently turning relationships with industry
  into partnerships
• WCC is proactively involved in the creation of
  District Youth Achievement Plans and this has
  significantly enhanced industry and community
  partnerships

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Action 9 Expand RATEP to new and emerging
industries

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Develop a clear plan around generating training
  and employment initiatives.
• Continue college commitment to developing
  partnerships
• Formalise the process for identifying candidates
  for RATEP, this process should be transferable to
  additional initiatives, across industries
• Continue external communication efforts with
  business and industry
• Continue to support DYAP initiative

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Action17 Comprehensive reporting to parents and
communities

• Why do we need to be successful?
• Focus improve school reporting and establish
  accountability for student learning outcomes
• Engages parents and communities to take active
  roles in education
• WCC needs engagement from parents and communities
  highlighted by attendance percentages

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Action17 Comprehensive reporting to parents and
communities

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC is accountable and committed to demonstrating
  this whilst engaging parents and communities in
  student learning
• WCC has developed and is implementing a Quarterly
  Reporting framework consistent, meaningful and
  accessible
• WCC produces individual report cards for students
  and parents

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Action17 Comprehensive reporting to parents and
communities

• Our Steps to Success
• WCC is trialing a service guarantee model for
  senior schooling
• WCC examining integrity of data gathering
  processes
• WCC publishes Benchmark Data Reports to inform
  College staff of strengths and weaknesses and
  drive strategic direction and teaching practice

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Action17 Comprehensive reporting to parents and
communities

• Preventing the Rebound for Success
• Set timelines for Quarterly Report completion and
  delivery
• Determine how report can be meaningfully
  presented to community groups and parents
• Develop reliable processes to encourage parental
  involvement in learning