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Rooty Hill High School - Excellence Assembly 2023 Achievements

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2023 Achievements PRINCIPAL’S EXCELLENCE ASSEMBLY ADDRESS Friday 9 February 2024 Welcome to the Rooty Hill High School Annual Excellence Assembly, celebrating the achievements of the students, the school and the community in 2023. Welcome to students, ex-students, families, community guests and a special welcome to Year 7. Today, just over 150 students, 5 staff and 8 community members will be recognised for outstanding achievements in 2023. I want to acknowledge the support of our community and, particularly thank our Elders for their ongoing support of the school. As principal I want to highlight some of our major achievements and the stories of 2023: • The school received the Public Education Foundation, Secretary’s Award for Outstanding School Achievement for Professional Next Practice, demonstrating that what the adults and students do together matters, and when the adults change their practice, the whole school shifts. We proudly launched the Professional Practice website to share our professional work and practice with educators across the world and our work was recognised in requests to participate in case studies, new programs and to host national and international visits with principals and academics from New Zealand and Japan. • There is evidence of excellence in the school plan where we completed and embedded 17 three-year projects that made a difference (see situational analysis for 2024-2027 plan and 2023 Annual Report) across three strategic directions (SD1, 2 and 3). • Rigorous reading and writing (SD1) • New approaches to numeracy (SD1) • New curriculum implementation – with teaching teams • Assessment, marking and feedback (SD1) • HSC pathways and HSC strategy (SD1) • Capabilities (SD1) • Inclusive Practice (SD1) • Restorative Teacher Practice (SD1) • Improved Attendance (SD2) • Relational pedagogies and the 4Rs (SD1, SD2, executive and wellbeing teams) • Educational Pathways program and learning transfer (SD2) • Academic subject goals and student self-reporting (SD2) • Learner profiles (SD2) • External evidence sets (SD3) • Aboriginal Education and cultural awareness (SD3) • Next practice leadership for improved practice – when the adults change (SD3) • External validation (SD3) • There is evidence through the School Operations Plan that we met milestones in each of the 11 operational and management areas of the school. This included significant asset renewal, including a new Science laboratory and Art Studio, improved practice in wellbeing and personalised learning, new 1


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