Contents Message from the Principal 3 Message from

Contents Message from the Principal 3 Message from the Chair of the School Board 4 Student Enrolment 6 Engaging Our Community 9 Curriculum and Learning Initiatives 14 School and Student Achievement 22 Financial Reporting at 31 December 2016 29

Message from the Principal Janine Kinninment Welcome to the Burrendah Primary School Annual Report. This report describes the schools achievements, activities and growth as a school community during the 2016 school year. The continued successes of Burrendah Primary School are as a result of the combined hard work and commitment of the students, parents and staff. As the new principal of Burrendah Primary School I look forward to becoming an integral member of the school community focusing on the Burrendah Primary School vision of empowering students to achieve their potential in a safe and supportive learning environment. For more than forty years the Burrendah community has enjoyed a close working relationship between staff, parents and the wider community and I am keen to ensure this close working relationship continues. Burrendah Primary School enjoys a well-deserved reputation of being a high performing school that not only demonstrates academic excellence but also promotes a holistic approach to the development of each child, meeting the full range of educational, social and emotional needs. Our goal is to maintain our successes and build on them as we embed our new school business plan’s Connect, Commit and Collaborate focus.

Message from the Chair of the School Board Jane Barker It is with great pleasure that I present the 2016 Burrendah Primary School Annual Report on behalf of the Board. This was a very special year for Burrendah as we celebrated 40 years of quality public school education. It was a joy to be a part of the celebrations and reflect on Burrendah’s journey from opening in 1976, through a rich history and sharing stories and memories with past students, parents and teaching staff who continue to be a part of our school’s community. A second significant milestone in 2016 was Burrendah’s completion of our first three years as an Independent Public School and the extremely positive feedback from the Department’s evaluation of our school’s performance. This achievement would not have been possible without the commitment of Burrendah’s leadership team, teaching staff, parents, students and the Board to making Burrendah a school of excellence. An exciting move forward in 2016 was the School’s new 2016 -2018 Business Plan around themes of Connect, Commit and Collaborate. Connected practice across all learning areas, commitment to achieving goals and targets and collaboration across the school community underpin how we will deliver on the Business Plan in maintaining our high standards of quality education. Connect, Commit, Collaborate are three new areas interwoven across key outcomes of: • Engagement of Students • Engagement of Staff • Engagement of Parents and the Wider Community

Message from the Chair of the School Board Jane Barker In the first year of our new Business Plan, it was very pleasing to see how our school achieved or made strong progress towards many of the targets set in the Business Plan, with a number of our students achieving outstanding results. This renewed focus will guide our journey over the next three years as we continue to maintain the excellent results that have been achieved in the past. The success the school has achieved would not have been possible without the expertise of the school’s leadership team, our committed teaching and non-teaching staff, our hard working students, and our supportive parents, families and community. I would like to acknowledge outgoing Principal Jayne Ebsworthy for her exceptional leadership of Burrendah in her 8 years at the school. Jayne has been a highly committed Principal and made an outstanding contribution to our school community. Jayne successfully led the transition of Burrendah to an independent public school that under her stewardship achieved excellent reviewer feedback. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jayne most sincerely for her passion, diligence and commitment to Burrendah and wish Jayne all the very best for the future. 2017 will be an exciting year ahead, under the leadership of our new Principal Janine Kinninment with initiatives planned to further build a vibrant and welcoming learning community and establish Burrendah as an exemplar school for the 21 st century. Burrendah continues to be a well-respected and highly sought after school in the community, achieving great results for our students while supporting each child to achieve their unique potential. I hope you enjoy reading the report.

Student Enrolment Student enrolment numbers from Kindergarten to Year 6 continue to increase with 620 students enrolled by Semester Two. When counting full time students, enrolment was 23 less students compared to our highest enrolment numbers of 586 in 2014 (before Year 7 went to the high school). This has meant we usually can only accommodate families in our local intake area due to classrooms being at capacity. Attendance Average whole school attendance remains high and has increased from 95% to 96%. Students attending 90% or more (regular attendance) increased by 0. 9%. Continued focus is required to reduce the increased percentage of students in the indicated category up 0. 8% to 10. 4 % (from 9. 6% in 2015). Student transiency reduced slightly by 1. 5% to 14. 3%. Attendance overall primary 87. 9% BURRENDAH PRIMARY SCHOOL 77% WA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Attendance overall primary

Our Diverse Community NUMBER OF STUDENTS At Burrendah Primary School, we are fortunate to have a very culturally diverse community, with over 28 languages other than English spoken by our students. We have a supportive and welcoming learning environment where this diversity is recognised and celebrated. LANGUAGE BACKGROUND (OTHER THAN ENGLISH. TOTAL 368 STUDENTS)

Engaging our Community At Burrendah Primary School there a range of events, activities and partnerships in place aimed at engaging parents as partners in the education process, as well as engaging the local community, businesses and other education institutions in collaborations that support school improvement. Some key initiatives are described below.

Supportive Parents and Citizens Association At Burrendah Primary School we have a very proactive and supportive Parents and Citizens Association (P&C), who support the education of all our students. The P & C continued to volunteer their time to provide greatly appreciated support to the school, including fundraising to assist with large scale purchases. In 2016 this included provision of substantial funding to the school to upgrade our school hall. The canteen was refurbished and opened one day a week with the support of parent volunteers. The P & C commissioned an artist to paint the canteen. Artist Darren Hutchens worked closely with the school to incorporate images of local flora and fauna whilst also representing the role of our school canteen in promoting healthy food choices for our students. Collaboration with Local Businesses In collaboration with the Southlands Shopping Centre, through Lendlease, Burrendah Primary School was assisted in beautifying the school. Lendlease contractors provided their time to paint wet areas and improved the grounds.

School Board – Providing Excellent Governance The Burrendah School Board continues to work effectively as the peak decision making body of the school and we thank all the members of the Board for their commitment. In reference to parent queries the school board developed a homework policy. This policy will commence in 2017. The School Board worked with the P & C to implement a bucket hat to the school dress uniform. The cap will be phased out. The new bucket style hat is reversible with a faction colour on the reverse side. 40 th Anniversary Fair A real highlight of 2016 was the very successful fair, which was held in Term One to celebrate 40 years of public education by Burrendah Primary School. A history of the school booklet was produced. In Term 4 past principals were invited to a special morning tea.

National Schools Opinion Survey Result Highlights (NSOS) The NSOS is conducted biannually. Students in Year 5 and 6 were surveyed (164 responses) in 2016. There were 125 parent responses and 42 staff responses, which represents a valid result. Students, parents and staff all rated “Teachers at this school expect students to do their best” as the highest area of performance, with a range from 93 -100%. The business plan highlights teacher feedback to students as an important strategy. Students rated teacher feedback at 83%, parents rated teacher feedback to students at 86% and teachers rated their feedback to students at 97%. This area will continue to be a future focus as we develop individual student goals linked to explicit teacher feedback. Collaboration with Willetton Senior High School and Burrendah Primary School continued their close working relationship with selected Year 6 students attending before school Japanese language lessons, with Willetton Senior High School Year 11 and 12 students attending Burrendah Primary School to gain work experience towards their Certificate II Community Services qualifications.

Collaboration with Curtin University We established a partnership with Curtin University School of Psychology and Speech Pathology to support teachers and parents improve knowledge and understanding of the role of speech and language development in the early years of schooling. Our school community worked collaboratively with a clinical educator and Speech Pathology Undergraduate students to improve classroom support and individual skills of our students. The Curtin University first and final year Speech Pathology students provided support to approximately 131 Burrendah students from Kindergarten to Year 3. Support included: • Individual assessment and treatment sessions in the areas of speech, language, literacy and stuttering • Whole class language groups each term (alternating between Kindergarten and Pre-Primary) aimed at supporting and informing our teachers regarding classroom communication strategies • Delivery of communication screening of all Kindergarten students to support: • Early identification of students at risk • Inform our school community in monitoring individual student development • Inform on whole class support strategies • Inform families of concerns and referral sources to appropriate services for specialised supports

Curriculum and Learning Initiatives Mathematics Teachers continued to modify whole school planning documents developed in 2015. Students from Year 1 to 6 were placed into development groups for all areas of maths based on whole school testing. During Numeracy Week classes from Pre-Primary to Year 4 had open classrooms where parents participated in maths activities.

English To complement the whole school planning documents students were tested using PAT Reading (PATR). This whole school test provided a baseline for student reading achievement. In 2017 selected staff will attend training to assist with data analysis of PATS results in order to develop further our whole school reading strategies. Seven Steps to Writing was introduced in the senior grades as a strategy to improve writing skills.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) In order for the school to be ready for NAPLAN online by 2019 the Department of Education together with Burrendah Primary School developed a plan to ensure wireless connectivity across the school. This work will commence during the Christmas break. We continued to increase the number of ipads and laptops across the school. Staff are trialling a number of apps on the ipads to determine which ones best suit our needs. With digital technologies being introduced through the WA curriculum next year, professional development to increase teacher knowledge, was a focus in 2016.

The Arts Burrendah Primary School has a robust music program that includes instrumental music. Students from Pre. Primary to Year 6 participate in the music program as part of The Arts curriculum. Burrendah Primary School Junior and Senior Choirs were successful with their nomination to sing at the prestigious West Australian Primary Principals Conference at the Burswood in Perth. The majority of students attended specialist Visual Arts lessons. There continues to be a strong sustainability focus through the Visual Arts program and also an engagement with our school history. Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) We benefited from having a close connection to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority with one of our teachers being involved in curriculum development. As a result a HASS whole school planning document has been developed ready for implementation in 2017.

Science Our Science specialist teacher focused on developing students skills in the area of Investigations. Scitech visited our school to compliment student work in this area. Baseline testing will be investigated next year to identify the development of students’ scientific skills.

Students at Educational Risk (SAER) Burrendah Primary School is known for our robust SAER program. We have specially trained teachers and education assistants who provided additional support to staff and students. Students are provided additional support either individually, group or whole class. In some cases students attend lessons outside of the classroom such as Alpha 2 Omega, Letters and Sounds, Multi. Lit, Fun Language (Year 1 -3) and Literacy Adventure (Year 4 -6).

Languages Other Than English Students in Year 5 and 6 participated in our Language program (Italian) taught by a specialist teacher. In 2017 Year 4 students will join this program. By 2018 students from Year 3 -6 will be involved in learning a language. Selected students in Year 6 attended the Japanese Academic Extension Program in partnership with Willetton Senior High School. This program was available to students from Burrendah, Rostrata and Willetton Primary Schools. The program was a full year course and took place on campus at Willetton Senior High School where students accessed specialist facilities and the expertise of the Japanese language teachers. Students attended before school lessons one hour each week to learn Japanese in an academic extension environment. LANGUAGES SPOKEN AT HOME BY STUDENTS

English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EALD) Our EALD team consists of specially trained teachers and ethnic education assistants, who use their different bilingual skills to support students, as well as interpret/translate for parents, teachers and the school community. This program is an integral part of Burrendah Primary School. We are a diverse community where for 56% of our students English is not their home language. The dominant language is Chinese with 35% of our LBOTE students having this as their language background. The Indian languages are spoken by 26% of our LBOTE community followed by Bengali at 6%. The EALD Parent Network Group are an important social network for our families. The group met fortnightly. EALD parents assisted in the planning of Culture Club where interested students participated in activities based on a selected country. Our Harmony Day picnic was a huge success with many students and parents who attended wore the traditional dress of their home culture.

School and Student Achievement Social and Emotional Results Nurturing the students’ social and emotional development is imperative to enable our school to cater for the development of the whole child. Baseline testing through ACER’s Social-Emotional Wellbeing Survey from Years 2 -6 was conducted to identify the overall social and emotional well-being of students. Information was further broken down to identify students’ perceptions in areas such as resilience, coping skills, social capability such as friendship making and learning skills such as persistence. While the majority of the school rated high to very high, 31% of students scored low to very low. In 2017 ACER testing will be repeated to assist in identifying successful strategies to embed into school planning to increase the number of students in the high domains.

National Quality Standards (NQS) National Quality Standards provide an assessment framework for Kindergarten to Year 2. In 2016 a Department of Education reviewer assessed our school on the 7 quality areas. We have achieved three of these areas: Quality Area 4 (staffing arrangements), Quality Area 6 (Partnership with families and communities) and Quality Area 7 (Leadership and service management). We are working towards the other four areas with the expectations that these areas will be met no later than 2020.

On Entry Testing On Entry testing conducted in Term One with Pre-Primary students showed we are equal to the state at 70% overall for Literacy for scores 0 -0. 5. The score of 1. 0 is expected by the end of the year. Our goal is for a lower percentage to be 0. 5 or below when compared to the state. Our Reading and Speaking and Listening results have more students scoring higher than the state average in the 0 -0. 5 range. When comparing our results in Reading we have more students (68%) between 0 -0. 5 compared to the state

NAPLAN We use two types of data sets when comparing NAPLAN. These are: - similar schools using an Australian school context such as My Schools Website and similar schools using a Western Australian (WA) context. In our new business plan we have increased our target from being ranked within the top 50% of Australian schools in My Schools Website to within the top 30% (or in the top 20 schools) of similar schools across all areas. We have achieved this for all areas for Year 3. Pleasingly we were ranked in the top 10 schools for Grammar & Punctuation (6 th), Spelling (8 th), Writing (8 th) and Numeracy (9 th). Reading was ranked 13 th. Year 5 students were within the top 30 % of schools for Spelling being ranked 16 th. Reading, Writing and Numeracy results did not reach our target but were less than 5 NAPLANs from schools within the top 30%. Grammar & Punctuation did not reach this target and were 10 NAPLANs from the top 30% of schools. The Literacy committee will be investigating ways to assist our students with the complexity of Standard Australian English particularly in the older grades. BURRENDAH PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR 3 BURRENDAH PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR 5 OF SIMILAR SCHOOLS ACROSS ALL AREAS (My Schools website) OF SIMILAR SCHOOLS FOR SPELLING (My Schools website) TOP 30%

We almost achieved our target of having a higher percentage of students achieving in the top 2 bands for all areas in Year 3 and 5 when compared to similar schools in WA. Year 3 results were higher than all similar schools in WA for all areas. Our Year 5 results were higher than all WA similar schools except for Spelling where we achieved 32% compared to similar WA schools achieving 42%. Pleasingly our ex Year 6 students for 2016 Year 7 NAPLAN were significantly higher than WA schools for all areas. We achieved our target for the percentage of students achieving between moderate to very high progress from Year 3 to Year 5 compared to our 2015 results in Numeracy. Literacy progress will continue as a focus in 2016. BURRENDAH PRIMARY SCHOOL Year 3 BURRENDAH PRIMARY SCHOOL Year 5 NUMERACY READING WRITING 2015 77% 2015 88. 5% 84. 5% 79. 1% 2015 73. 7% 85. 9% 75% 70. 5%

On Entry data was available for the first time to track student progress from Pre-Primary to Year 3 NAPLAN results in WA schools. In Numeracy 84. 5% of our students were in moderate to very high progress and 85. 9% were in moderate to very high progress for Reading. While our students are achieving high results we will be monitoring closely future progress to ensure our students are provided with increased complexity of learning opportunities. One of our strategies is to use the Thinking Skills Framework to move students from foundation thinking to higher order thinking skills of analyse, evaluate and design. Staff will be provided with additional professional learning in 2017.

Trends in NAPLAN over last 5 years Year 3 Over the last five years Year 3 Numeracy remains fairly constant at 1. 0 (excellent). Reading has declined from 1. 0 (excellent) to 0. 5 (expected). While Year 3 results have consistently been high results need to be monitored in future years to ensure there is not a continued downward trend. Writing has increased from 0. 5 (expected) to 0. 8 (just below excellent of 1. 0) Year 5 Over the last five years Year 5 Numeracy has increased slightly from 0. 7 (expected) to 0. 9 (just below excellent of 1. 0). The Year 5 Reading trend has significantly increased from -0. 2 (negative expected) to 0. 7 (positive expected). Year 5 Writing has declined from 0. 8 (expected) to 0. 3 (expected). The trend in Writing will need to be monitored to ensure there is not a continued downward trend of the Year 5 cohorts. Teacher Moderation Accurate reporting of grades continues to be a priority. Teacher moderation with grades and NAPLAN results were more closely aligned than in 2015. Continued professional development will be provided in this area to further increase teachers’ familiarity with the WA Curriculum.

Financial Reporting at 31 December 2016 CURRENT YEAR ACTUAL CASH SOURCES REVENUE - CASH BUDGET ACTUAL 1 Voluntary Contributions $ 31, 763. 00 2 Charges and Fees $ 135, 770. 00 $ 135, 768. 92 3 Fees from Facilities Hire $ 7, 688. 00 $ 7, 687. 72 4 Fundraising/Donations/Sponsorships $ 39, 358. 00 $ 39, 358. 28 5 Commonwealth Govt Revenues $ 6 Other State Govt/Local Govt Revenues $ 7 Revenue from Co, Regional Office and Other Schools $ 1, 091. 00 $ 1, 090. 92 8 Other Revenues $ 20, 292. 00 $ 19, 982. 93 9 Transfer from Reserve or DGR 10 Residential Accommodation $ $ 133, 038. 00 - 11 Farm Revenue (Ag and Farm Schools only) $ - 12 Camp School Fees (Camp Schools only) Student Centred Funding Locally Raised Funds Transfers from Reserves Other Govt Grants $ $ $ - Total Locally Raised Funds $ 369, 000. 00 $ 368, 689. 77 Opening Balance $ 100, 323. 00 $ 100, 322. 80 362, 111. 30 Student Centred Funding $ 362, 111. 30 $ Total Cash Funds Available $ 831, 434. 30 Total Salary Allocation $ 4, 673, 208. 00 $ 831, 123. 87 $ 4, 673, 208. 00 $ 5, 504, 642. 30 $ Total Funds Available 50% 29% 18% 3% 0% 5, 504, 331. 87 CONTINGENCY REVENUE – BUDGET vs ACTUAL

CONTINGENCY REVENUE – BUDGET vs ACTUAL EXPENDITURE BUDGET ACTUAL 1 Administration $ 53, 035. 00 $ 40, 312. 63 2 Lease Payments $ 65, 000. 00 $ 46, 864. 00 3 Utilities, Facilities and Maintenance $ 151, 772. 00 $ 123, 805. 41 4 Buildings, Property and Equipment $ 165, 284. 00 $ 174, 069. 94 5 Curriculum and Student Services $ 197, 457. 00 $ 175, 055. 33 6 Professional Development $ 16, 110. 00 $ 13, 931. 97 7 Transfer to Reserve $ 148, 860. 30 $ 148, 860. 00 8 Other Expenditure $ 13, 866. 00 $ 13, 096. 58 9 Payment to CO, Regional Office and Other Schools $ 1, 890. 00 $ 2, 010. 00 10 Residential Operations $ - 11 Residential Boarding Fees to CO (Ag Colleges only) $ - 12 Farm Operations (Ag and Farm Schools only) $ - 13 Farm Revenue to CO (Ag and Farm Schools only) $ - 14 Camp School Fees to CO (Camp Schools only) $ - Total Goods and Services Expenditure $ 813, 274. 30 $ 738, 005. 86 Total Forecast Salary Expenditure $ 4, 570, 599. 00 Total Expenditure $ 5, 383, 873. 30 $ 5, 308, 604. 86 Cash Budget Variance $ 18, 160. 00

CASH POSITION AS AT: Dec 2016 Bank Balance $ 204, 223. 16 1 General Fund Balance $ 93, 118. 01 2 Deductible Gift Funds $ 3, 854. 80 3 Trust Funds $ 4 Asset Replacement Reserves $ 84, 930. 35 5 Suspense Accounts $ 24, 475. 00 6 Cash Advances $ 7 Tax Position $ 2, 155. 00 $ 204, 223. 16 MADE UP OF: Total Bank Balance

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