Holy Child School

1. Holy Child School Review of Year 2013 / 2014

2. Review of Whole School Activity • Teaching and Learning • Academic Results • Support for all students • Literacy and numeracy policy • School Self Evaluation • Library • Social • Spiritual • Artistic & Scientific • Physical • Board of Management

3. Teaching and Learning Pursuit of Academic Challenge & Excellence Review of Results • Leaving Certificate • CAO Points • College Destinations • Areas of Discipline • Junior Certificate

4. Leaving Certificate Analysis 2011/12/13/14

5. Leaving Certificate Analysis 2011/12/13/14

7. Junior Certificate Analysis

8. Junior Certificate Analysis

9. SSE and SIP School Improvement Plan Teaching & Learning Student Well Being

10. School Self Evaluation • Tracking programme - continued from previous year • Gathering Data • Student / Parent / Teachers • Focus on First Years (iPad project) • Focus on 2nd Years • Results fed into our SSE Report • What we learned

11. SSE Summary Strengths • Student performance in standardised tests indicate that both literacy and numeracy levels are generally above national norms • Students perform well above the national averages in State Examinations • Students are positively disposed to reading and are open to new ideas and initiatives • Teachers are positively disposed to the SSE process • Teachers have completed significant CPD in areas such as AFL, Differentiated Learning techniques and report positive feedback when trialling these techniques in the classroom

12. SSE Summary Areas for Improvement Areas for Improvement • Increase participation in Literacy initiatives such as Drop Everything and Read, Book in the Bag, Book Club, Library lending. • Increase participation in maths for Fun initiatives Learner Outcome • Establish academic tracking model for Literacy and Numeracy. This will enable meaningful target setting for individual students and will enable timely intervention to address/explain underperformance by each student.

13. Teacher Practice • Improve awareness and understanding of standardised test scores among teachers. • Improve communication of the import of these results to teachers and parents • Establish whole school responsibility for target setting, progress monitoring and implementation of intervention strategies • Improve monitoring of progress using tracking system above [or refined version, after consultation with staff, esp. Literacy Core team and English department] • Ensure whole school approach to Literacy Programme using relevant aspects of Literacy Policy by each subject department • Embed new teaching approaches such as AFL – with clearly explained objectives and success criteria so that all staff have clarity of purpose

14. SSE Summary Parental awareness: • Communicate more effectively with parents – they are unaware of efforts being made to improve literacy Data Gathering: • While a significant number of surveys have been conducted, some were unfocused and too broad. In future, it will be necessary to design more targeted questionnaires which yield specific data on the issue at hand. This should enable more meaningful analysis and assist in devising future plans.

15. Social Awareness • Lourdes Pilgrimage • Nyumbani immersion Programme • Sponsored Walk • Outreach / Carmona / Logon Learn • St. Vincent de Paul Conference • Justice and Peace Group • Young Social Innovators

16. Lourdes

17. Nyumbani Immersion

18. Sponsored Walk

19. Spiritual Development • Le Chéile • Celebration of Liturgical Year • Welcoming Blessing for 1st Years • Retreats • Opening School Year Mass/Mass of Remembrance • Ministers of the Eucharist/Peer Ministries • SHCJ Education Conference • Assemblies • Celebrating Founders Day • International Women's Day

20. Le Chéile Ethos

21. Le Chéile

22. Le Chéile Spiritual Dimension of Le Chéile Schools • A community that witnesses to the Kingdom of God and to Gospel values • Centres of learning and excellence in all aspects of growth • Focus on Christ as a teacher and a model of human living • Develop links with the wider Church community and encourage concern about local, national and global issues Le Chéile Charter p.4

23. Le Chéile Le Chéile Spirituality • Education in Le Chéile schools is about transformation, a process enabling our students to become fully alive human beings. • One way of helping us to reflect on that process is to focus on three key words that draw together the core elements of we might call a Le Chéile spirituality • Welcome • Wisdom • Witness

24. Le Chéile Le Chéile: Activities of the Trust • Property • Ethos • Finance

25. 1st Year Welcome Ceremony

26. Retreats

27. International Women’s Day

28. Physical Development Sporting Success • Hockey • Basketball • Tennis • Athletics • Aerobics

29. Hockey

30. Hockey

31. Tennis

32. Basketball

33. Athletics

34. Artistic & Scientific Development • Music • Public Speaking • School trips • School Competitions

35. Public Speaking and Debating

36. China

37. Berlin

38. Review of Board of Management • New BOM • Development Plan • Appointment of Development Manager • Policy Development • Bursary Programme • Links with KPA

39. Development The Development Plan has three phases • The Sports Hall • The Science Labs, Art room, HE room • Communal areas that enhance the daily lives of our students; canteen, library, communal areas, disabled access

40. Development Phase One – The Sports Hall

41. Development We are currently fundraising for Phase One • No state funding for capital development for fee paying schools • The cost of the Sports Hall is €1.9m • We have borrowed €1.3m • We are fundraising to repay this loan • Then we can plan for Phases Two and Three

42. Development Year One of Fundraising - Results • We asked all parents 3 – 6 Year to consider their support • 30% response rate • Parents pledged €408,000 over 3 – 5 years • Most parents pay by SO or DD • Monthly gifts start at 21 euro per month upwards • A pledge of €5,000 over 5 years costs €80 per month (value to the school is €7,245) • Including tax reclaim total monies raised from the parents is €590,000

43. Development Year Two of Fundraising • Our target is €550,000 in pledges over 3 – 5 years. • Increase in numbers of families in the school • Now 23% are giving (3 – 6 years) • We shall be inviting the entire parent body to get involved on a phased basis • Starting in October.

44. Development Year Two of Fundraising • We shall also be reaching out to the past pupils • Starting by developing better relationships with them • And asking them to support the future of Holy Child Killiney • Years 3 and beyond will see us spreading the net wider, to corporate, trusts and foundations, legacy programmes etc.

45. Policies • Review of Anti Bullying Policy • Literacy Policy • Eating Distress Policy • Self Harm Policy

46. Bursary Programme • Questionnaire

47. Fee Paying Schools Issue • fairfunding.ie

48. Mission Statement Our mission is to nurture the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, social and physical development of each student in an atmosphere of openness and trust. We encourage our students to emerge as mature young women who are strong in faith and who are confident and caring and capable of making decisions that enrich their own lives and contribute to the lives of others. “Be yourself but let that self be all that God wants it to be”