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2015 Excellence Assembly Edition
RECOGNISING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FROM 2014
PRINCIPAL’S EXCELLENCE ASSEMBLY ADDRESS Good morning. Over the course of this assembly you will see the continuing achievements of the school as just over 200 awards are presented. The continued success of our students in the academic, performance, citizenship and sporting life of the school underpins much of the ongoing success and reputation of this school in the wider community. Please thank our staff and acknowledge their outstanding achievements as a group in 2014? In 2014, we returned to the core PERSIST value of Excellence – which we define as doing a personal best. I believe we achieved some outstanding cultural and learning benchmarks. We successfully implemented many of the innovative learning platforms and projects that we designed in 2013 and our overarching mantra (shared with our Learning Neighbourhood school partners) to lift the expectations,
capacity and achievement of the school was delivered. Working from identifying our strengths and then building on them we continued to transform the school, not by narrowing our focus but by applying best practice research about learning in secondary schools. The result was a positive change in the learning trajectory for over 90% of our students. The fact that many students arrive at Rooty Hill High School 2 - 3 years behind the state average in academic performance did not, and will not stop us from achieving our promise of working together to make a difference. Together, we deliver our moral contract with students and their families – to give every student the opportunity to do his or her best. Student highlights • Achieving above state average results for the first time in the Year 10 Essential Science skills test;