School Review & Improvement

“The School Review and Improvement Framework (SRI) is a central component in the ongoing process of each school’s self- evaluation of their performance and growth. Using a commonly agreed set of criteria the SRI informs action planning at the school level to identify areas of strength and areas for improvement.” Peter Turner, Director of Schools Diocese of Wollongong.

The SRI is a continuous process with System and BOS check points along each 5 year cycle to ensure validity and transparency within the implementation of the framework. All systemic schools, Primary and Secondary, engage in this process annually.

The underlying principles of SRI include: improved learning outcomes for all students, a student centred approach; a flexibility for addressing school goals annually; an evidence based self-reflection reporting methodology; rigorous consultation, collaboration and strategic planning.

Components are addressed specifically over the course of the 5 year cycle. However, all areas of school life continue each year to be of importance and none is left unattended each year. Rather, a special focus or scrutiny is given to a particular set of components to determine improvements necessary and to develop strategies, collect evidence of effectiveness and evaluate each of these particular components at their allocated time.

There are 5 processes comprising the SRI Framework:

• The school Improvement Plan (incorporating): recommendations from the previous Cyclic Review; Strategic Intent Statement; Targets; SIR Schedule for 2013 -2017.
• Annual Self-Evaluation of Selected SRI Components
• Action Plans for each Component selected
• Annual report to the community
• Cyclic Review
  


All member of the school community contribute to this SRI process. Teacher, support staff, students and parents are involved in strategy development, evidence collection and evaluation. Reporting to all members of the school community and the wider community is provided as part of the Annual School Report. Annual School Reports are available on this school website.


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