SMART Data
National Minimum Standards
Artefact 1
Artefact 2
Annotation
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Why: Chatswood Public School performs at a very high level academically. This is reflected in external data such as NAPLAN. What: The school is consistently among the higher achievers in the state. We can usually expect around 70% or more of our students being in the top 2 bands across the board and around 5% of students being in the bottom 2 bands or below National Minimum Standards, with around 70% of students achieving equal to or greater than expected growth from Year 3 to Year 5. How: Despite these excellent results, Chatswood Public School is continually looking for ways to improve our teaching and learning programs, target particular students and areas for professional development.
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The Significant Impact
The summary of trends over the last three years was discussed among executive and staff. While these figures highlight that the school is excelling in academic performance there are areas highlighted where we identified a trend occurring in either a positive or negative way. From there data was further analysed in order to come up with clear areas to target – namely punctuation and grammar in writing, inferential comprehension and problem solving in numeracy. The numeracy analysis, which was developed through the numeracy committee demonstrates the school analysing data and finding a need to focus on “back to basics” with a particular focus on measurement and geometry.
Analysis
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In our self-assessment process the leadership team analysed a range of evidence to support our judgement.
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SEF Connections
Learning Element
Assessment and Reporting - Sustaining and Growing
The school has analysed school performance data and a range of other contextual information and is aware of trends in student achievement levels. Assessment data to monitor achievements and gaps in student learning are used extensively to inform planning for particular student groups and individual students.
Student Performance Measures - Sustaining and Growing
The school achieves excellent value-added results, and/or most of its students achieve at high levels of performance on external performance measures. Performance for equity groups within a school is comparable to the performance of all students in the school.
Teaching Element
Data Skills and Use - Sustaining and Growing
The school leadership team engages the school community in reflecting on student performance data.
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Please check the link below re: School Excellence Framework