Lindfield Public School Parents and Citizens Association

Lindfield Public School has released the Annual Report for 2008. This report documents the school's progress in meeting targets set for 2008. It also documents the targets for school development for 2009 - 2011, plus the strategies to achieve these targets and the outcomes that will be used to measure success.

TARGET 1

Students will increase their skills in achieving stage-appropriate reading and writing outcomes.

Strategies to achieve this target include:

• Explicitly teach strategies that will improve student use of descriptive language when writing;
• Participation of Stage 2 and 3 teachers in ‘Reading Like a Writer' regional project;
• Explicitly teach a range of spelling strategies that will improve student's phonological, visual, morphemic and etymological knowledge through implementation of Spelling Mastery program in Years 3-6; and
• All students reading to be benchmarked at least twice a year until they reach Level 30 (PM) with acceptable fluency and comprehension.
• Analysis of school-based benchmarking and NAPLAN data to identify specifi c areas of student strength /weakness and to influence programming and teaching practices.

Our success will be measured by:

• All students progressing at least one level of the Spelling Mastery program;
• NAPLAN writing results demonstrate Year 5 cohort growth above that of state average;
• NAPLAN writing results indicate that highest performing Year 3 students (2007) achieve growth at least equal to state average growth; and
• School-based benchmark data demonstrates improvement in reading levels of individual students.

TARGET 2

Identified gifted and talented students will be provided with an enriched and extended curriculum to enable them to achieve their potential.

Strategies to achieve this target include:

• Development, publication and distribution of the LPS GATS policy;
• Development of grade folders, outlining various teaching strategies to be utilised in units of work;
• Evidence of co-operative stage planning and differentiation strategies in stage and class programs; and
• Establishment of a Stage 3 extension class.

Our success will be measured by:

• The accurate identifi cation of, and catering for, Gifted and Talented students;
• The development of the LPS matrix that contains details of identified GATS students;
• Teaching and learning programs demonstrating evidence of the implementation of a range of strategies; and
• Student work samples reflective of the strategies taught.

TARGET 3

Increased student achievement of information and communication technology (ICT) learning outcomes.

Strategies to achieve this target include:

• Provision of regular planned staff professional learning opportunities in the use of interactive whiteboards, catering for range of teacher ability, confidence and experience;
• Installation of interactive whiteboards in all classrooms;
• Student results in UNSW Computer Studies testing analysed; and
  
• Continuation of existing, and expansion of, Robotics program to include ‘Beebot' and ‘Probot' use across Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 classes.

Our success will be measured by:

• Interactive whiteboards used with increasing confidence and skill by staff and students;
• All classrooms having an interactive whiteboard installed;
• The numbers of new students engaging in the Robotics programs throughout the school; and
• Improved student performance in the UNSW Computer Skills competition.