Annual Report 2015

CONTENTS Board of Governance

Executive Leadership Team

Highlights

Statistics

Financials

BOARD OF GOVERNANCE Members Mr Tim McGrath (Chair) Bishop James Foley (Ex-Officio) Fr Neil Muir (Episcopal Vicar, Ex-Officio) Dr Stephen Torre Mrs Elizabeth Rosenberg Sr Mary Garnier Mr Kevin Garland Mr Vince Musumeci Ms Rose-Marie Dash Mr William (Bill) Dixon (Support Role) Mr Kevin Malone (Support Role) Mr Andrew McKenzie (Executive Officer)

Subcommittees

EDUCATION

Dr Stephen Torre (Chair) Mr Brendon Alexander Mrs Debbie Kearney Mrs Erica Prosser Mr Kevin Garland Mrs Ruth Mallon Mr Vince Musumeci Ms Ursula Elms (Executive Officer)

FINANCE

Fr Neil Muir (Episcopal Vicar, Chair) Ms Rose-Marie Dash Mr William (Bill) Dixon Mr Todd Kelly Mr Tim McGrath Mrs Jasmin Greer Mr Kevin Malone Mr Paul McArthur (Executive Officer)

IDENTITY AND MISSION

Mr Colin Harvey (Chair) Fr Martin Kenny Mrs Cathy Spencer Mrs Elizabeth Rosenberg Ms Thresea Jankowski Mr Warren Dunn Mr Bryan Grech Mrs Priscilla O’Brien (Secretariat)

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM (At Year End)

Executive Director……………………………………………………………………….. Mr William (Bill) Dixon Deputy Executive Director School Improvement (Acting)…………….. Mr Diarmuid O’Riordan Chief Financial & Operating Officer……………………………………………… Mr Paul McArthur Assistant Executive Director Identity & Mission…………………………… Mr Colin Harvey Assistant Executive Director Learning & Teaching……………………….. Ms Ursula Elms Manager Executive Services…………………………………………………………. Mr Andrew McKenzie (Supporting role)

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HIGHLIGHTS Introduction

In hindsight the year was one of significant change in the provision of school-based education in the Diocese of Cairns. The central office for Cairns Catholic Education Services was restructured to provide a more service-oriented model for schools, initial work began on a School Effectiveness Framework to give school Principals a greater capacity to lead the direction of their school communities, the Shared Services project saw the introduction of ‘real time’ data to support evidence-based decision-making, and work began on a new Strategic Plan.

In addition a new secondary college opened to specifically cater for the needs of disengaged and marginalised young people.

Throughout these processes we were guided by a supportive and informed Board of Governance led by Chair Tim McGrath and Diocesan leadership through Bishop James Foley and the Vicar for Education Fr Neil Muir. We thank all those who have served on the Board and its advisory committees for their involvement throughout the year. We also thank our many staff, in CES and in our schools, for their contributions towards this unfolding re-orientation.

In driving these changes to revitalise the direction of our schools into the 21st Century we are mindful that we have a strong, vibrant and supportive system of schools in our Diocese. We thank the many thousands of families across Far North Queensland who have chosen Catholic Education as their school of choice.

CES Restructure

Late in 2014 Bishop James approved a major structural re-organisation of the central education office. The intent was to streamline the office to ensure a structure was in place that could both lead and respond to the changing and pressing needs of Catholic schools and the related wider education and schooling context. Some of the key aspects of the new structure included:

• A smaller Executive Leadership Team (ELT) of five (previously eight).

• Halving the number of senior leadership (ELT, Senior Leadership Group, Strategic Advisory Committee) meetings and sharpening their focus

• A new School Improvement Team led by the Deputy Executive Director. This included the three Directors for School Development (2 x primary, 1 x secondary), a new Director of Leadership and Professional Learning and a new Principal Education Officer Student Wellbeing.

• A new Professional Standards Unit with a diocesan-wide focus, reporting directly to the Executive Director, and located away from the central office.

• Placing all office administrative functions under the leadership of the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.

During 2015 this new structure was implemented across the organisation with actions including re-locating work areas, revising terms of reference for key groups and the recruitment of staff for newly identified roles. In mid-2015 Diarmuid O’Riordan was appointed Deputy Executive Director after acting in this position for several months. Dr Sally Towns was also appointed mid-year as the Director School Development (Secondary) to complete the senior leadership group.

Far Left: Diarmuid O’Riordan

Left: Dr Sally Towns

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School Effectiveness Framework

One of the key outcomes of our organisational restructure last year was the creation of the School Improvement Team within Catholic Education Services. The key purpose of the team is to enhance the capacity of our schools to effectively service the needs of their school communities. This approach strengthens school leadership and re-purposes CES’s role as a key service provider to schools. This process will proceed in partnership with the other significant CES project in enhancing Catholic School Identity.

Strategic Plan 2016-2019

CES engaged consultant Ms Philomena Billington to assist in the development of our new 2016-2019 strategic plan. Ms Billington is the former Director of Catholic Education in the Diocese of Sandhurst, Victoria. Preparatory work was undertaken in 2015 prior to an extensive consultative process in 2016.

The new plan is expected to differ from the existing strategic plan in at least three aspects:

1. It will have a wider Catholic Education focus (the current plan tends to be CES-centric);

2. It will have a shorter time frame (three years instead of five);

3. It will involve a smaller number of key strategic initiatives.

School Leadership The year saw a number of leadership changes across diocesan schools.

Term 1 saw new Principals commence at Mount St Bernard College (David Finch), Atherton (Michael Lindsay) and Dimbulah (Brad Williams). Andrew Maley from St John’s Silkwood was appointed Acting Principal at St Gerard Majella, Woree, replacing Terry Grant who undertook leave in Brisbane before resigning in August.

Early in the year Luke Reed was appointed Principal of the new P-12 college for Mount Peter while Sharon County took up the Principal’s role on Thursday Island in Term 2, replacing Helen Kett who retired.

Midway through the year saw the appointment of David Harris as the Principal of St Mary’s Catholic College, replacing Pat Jones who retired. Paul Rayner was appointed Principal at St Augustine’s, Mossman, replacing Bec Maxwell who moved to Hong Kong for family reasons.

James Roberts was appointed as the Principal of Good Counsel College, replacing Paul Keenan who stood down for health-related reasons.

Late in the year Edna Galvin was appointed Principal of St Monica’s College to replace Kristen Sharpe who took up the Principalship of Stuartholme College in Brisbane. The end of the year also saw the resignations of St Therese’s School Bentley Park Principal Kevin Browning who relocated to Victoria and Holy Cross School Principal Wendy Manners who relocated to Western Australia.

School Boards

Late in 2015 the Board of Governance approved new constitutions for parish and direct-funded schools. The new constitutions reflected a renewed emphasis on the work of school boards as part of the wider function of parent engagement. School boards are operating effectively at a number of our schools and colleges providing timely advice to school leadership and Parish Priests.

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Holy Spirit College

Our new youth assistance college welcomed its first students at its Cairns campus (Moignard Street, Manoora) on 2 February. It was a “soft” but successful opening given construction was still occurring on site. The Cooktown campus enrolled its first boarding students in Term 3. We were pleased to recruit some excellent new staff for both campuses including new Principal Erica Prosser and Director of Student Services Tom O’Donnell.

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Erica Prosser

Tom O’Donnell

New Schools, Weipa and Mount Peter

Following successful bids for more than $10m in state capital funding, construction commenced for the first stages of our new Prep-Year 6 school at Weipa and a Prep-Year 12 college at Mount Peter in the Cairns southern growth corridor.

After extensive consultation and reflection names for the new schools were approved by Bishop James following recommendations from the Board of Governance. St Joseph’s Parish School, Weipa took the name of its Parish while MacKillop Catholic College at Mount Peter reflected a diocesan recognition of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

Foundation Principals were appointed for both schools – Luke Reed at MacKillop and Rosie Harrison at Weipa. Both schools will welcome their first students from Term 1, 2016.

In time it is expected that MacKillop Catholic College will rival St Andrew’s Catholic College, Redlynch, in size with more than 1,500 students while Weipa will be a small single stream school with between 180 and 200 students.

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ABOVE: Weipa sod turning L to R: Bill Dixon, WTA Chairman Ian McNamara, Bishop James Foley, builder Max Bryant.

LEFT: MacKillop Principal Luke Reed with foundation students enrolled for 2016.

BELOW: Luke Reed. QCEC Executive Director Dr Lee-Ann Perry and Bill Dixon inspect the MacKillop construction site.

Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (KU Leuven)

We have been engaged in a project since 2012 in partnership with the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium to help our schools better understand and express their Catholic identity. With this year’s intake, eight of our schools will now have participated in this program. Other diocesan education offices are also involved. The process is of particular immediate use to schools undertaking a renewal process.

The aims of the project go to the core of Catholic school identity:

• Assist school communities to deepen their understanding of the Australian cultural context and its implications for the Catholic identity of their schools

• Assist school communities to deepen their understanding of how Catholic identity is perceived and expressed within the life of their school community

• Assist school communities to develop strategic actions to strengthen the school’s Catholic identity in the future

• Assist each participating diocese to develop a deeper understanding of how Catholic identity is perceived and expressed across participating schools in the Diocese.

In May-June a small group from Cairns comprising Bishop James, Fr Neil Muir, Bill Dixon, Identity and Mission Assistant Executive Director Colin Harvey, and Identity and Mission education officer Toni Foley, undertook a two week intensive program at Leuven in order to strengthen involvement in this project through the strengthening of our local leadership capacity.

World Congress ‘Educating Today and Tomorrow. A renewing passion’ During 2015 the Congregation for Catholic Education celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration Gravissimum Educationis and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae. This Diocese was represented by the Vicar for Education Fr Neil Muir and the Executive Director CES Bill Dixon at the Congress in Rome in November. The aims of the Congress were: • To offer schools and universities a place where

they can dialogue and debate about the challenges that the “educational emergency” unavoidably provokes for our societies, educational systems and the Church;

• In light of ethical and religious principles, to draft a written analysis of the above-mentioned challenges and their repercussions for every field of education. All those involved in this important area will thus have a chance to make their contribution;

• In light of the Magisterium, to examine in greater depth the ideas that education is proposing and developing about humanity and society;

• To formulate useful suggestions and guidelines;

• To draft together, as members of the Church, a message that is meaningful, descriptive and challenging

The Congress provided further valuable context in a number of our strategic projects including enhancing Catholic School Identity, the 2016-2019 strategic plan and the School Improvement Team’s School Effectiveness Framework.

BELOW: Queensland Leuven delegates

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QELI Best Practice visit to America and Canada

In May five representatives of Cairns Catholic Education joined a Queensland Education Leadership Institute intensive program to America and Canada to study school and system leadership.

Those selected for the program were CES Deputy Executive Director Diarmuid O’Riordan, Assistant Executive Director, Learning and Teaching Ursula Elms, Director of Professional Learning Vicki Bell, St Andrew’s Catholic College Principal Lee MacMaster and St Monica’s College Principal Kristen Sharpe.

The program provided an opportunity to see ‘what worked’ at both school and system levels to create an effective school. Knowledge and insights from this program significantly informed the development of the School Effective Framework, Leadership Framework and School Annual Improvement Plans.

Health Care Card for determining school fee rebates

In July the Board of Governance approved the introduction of a scheme which provided automatic school-fee discounts for families holding a means tested Centrelink Health Care Card (HCC). The scheme had proved to be effective in other dioceses.

The goals of the scheme are: • To encourage the enrolment of families with a

low socio-economic status. The HCC discount scheme will assist in making the cost of Catholic education affordable to families.

• Simplify the remission process for families with limited financial capacity to pay tuition fees and levies in full. This process is simplified by an automatic remission applying on tuition fees. This assists both families and the Principal as reduced administration exists due to interviews for remissions being no longer necessary (or greatly reduced).

Schools are still able to provide fee discounts for compassionate reasons for families in difficult circumstances who do not have a health care card.

BELOW: Diarmuid O’Riordan, Ursula Elms, Lee MacMaster, Vicki Bell, Kristen Sharpe.

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Shared Services Project Post Implementation Review – School Information Systems (SIS) In 2013 the Board of Governance approved an agreement with Brisbane Catholic Education for Shared Services involving a suite of BCE products. The SIS component is now largely implemented and we have undertaken an implementation review. Notwithstanding a range of possible risks identified in our early due diligence, the implementation has gone well with high degrees of support evident across our schools. There is a need for ongoing training and professional development for staff in the use of SIS as a means of both managing it effectively and unlocking its many benefits. The use of SIS represents a systemic change in how we use and access information. Janine Conolly, previously Assistant Principal Curriculum at Mount St Bernard College, was appointed to the newly-created position Manager – Data Informed Learning.

As part of the Shared Services project a Business Intelligence package was implemented later in 2016 to give our system and schools unprecedented access, in real time, to a range of system, school, class and individual data that will greatly inform our planning and management of student progress.

ANZAC Reflections The ANZAC centenary was commemorated throughout the diocese, spearheaded by ANZAC Reflections, a commemorative concert and theatrical re-enactment held at St Monica’s Cathedral. Closer schools contributed more than 400 performers, while 13,000 students and staff from all schools shared their ANZAC reflections on plaques displayed on the Bishop’s lawn.

The event received funding through the Australian Government’s Anzac Centenary Local Grants Programme and was spearheaded by St Andrew’s Catholic College Head of Music, Maureen Cameron.

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TOP RIGHT: Students perform the theatrical re-enactment in St Monica’s Cathedral.

RIGHT: Bill Dixon and Maureen Cameron with Member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch MP, responsible for the grant

BELOW: ANZAC Reflections displayed in front of the Bishop’s House.

FRONT COVER: Maureen Cameron takes a moment in the midst of thousands of ANZAC Reflections

Courage to Care In August-September Catholic Education Services Cairns sponsored the Courage to Care Exhibition at the Seville Mercy Conference Centre. The exhibition was based on the true stories of Holocaust survivors, told first-hand in person and through an interactive exhibition. Its aim was to empower its participants to take positive action in relation to bullying and discrimination in all forms, from the schoolyard to the workplace and beyond. The exhibition was attended by hundreds of students, school staff and the wider community.

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Recognition

DOCEMUS AWARDS

The annual Docemus Awards were awarded in August in recognition of outstanding contributions to Catholic education in the Cairns Diocese. Pictured below, from Left to Right:

Secondary Teacher Bryan Hurdley St Andrew’s Catholic College, Redlynch Primary Teacher Robyn Chambers St Joseph’s School, Parramatta Park Volunteer Jan O’Donnell Our Lady Help of Christians School, Earlville School Officer Madonna Snell Our Lady Help of Christians School, Earlville Leadership Janet Zaccour St Joseph’s School, Parramatta Park Lifelong Contribution Fr Frank Gordon St Francis Xavier Parish

SPIRIT OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION AWARD

Cairns Diocese recipient of the state-wide Spirit of Catholic Education Awards during Catholic Education Week (Term 3, Week 3) was Richard Bassano from St Augustine’s College, Cairns. The 2014 CEW theme was Engaging Minds, Igniting Hearts, Serving Others.

Spirit of Catholic Education Award recipient, Richard Bassano is presented the award by Queensland Governor General, Paul de Jersey.

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STATISTICS

Catholicity

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Students 53% 53.3% 53.7% 55% 56%

Teaching Staff

54.4% 67.6% 70% 70% 71%

Our schools

DIOCESAN SCHOOLS

Primary: 19

Secondary: 7

Prep – Year 12: 1

TOTAL: 27

Enrolments (Federal Census, August 2015)

Suburb/Town School Principal (as at Dec 2014) Year Level Primary Secondary

Atherton St Joseph's Mr Michael Lindsay P – 6 230

Babinda St Rita's Mrs Judy Billiau P – 6 30

Bentley Park St Therese's Mr Kevin Browning P – 6 640

Cairns St Augustine's College Br Darren Burge 7 – 12

769

Cairns St Monica's College Ms Edna Galvin 7 – 12 635

Cooktown/Manoora Holy Spirit College Mrs Erica Prosser 7 – 12 90

Dimbulah St Anthony's Mr Brad Williams P – 6 54

Earlville Our Lady Help of Christians Mr Luke Brown P – 6 579

Gordonvale St Michael's Mrs Lea Martin P – 6 304

Herberton Mount St Bernard College Mr David Finch 7 – 12

224

Innisfail Good Counsel Primary Mr Liam Kenny P – 6 295

Innisfail Good Counsel College Mr Paul Keenan 7 – 12

576

Manunda St Francis Xavier’s Mr Brendon Alexander P – 6 534

Mareeba St Thomas’s Mrs Rita Petersen P – 6 406

Mareeba St Stephen's Catholic College Mrs Ida Pinese 7 – 12 532

Mossman St Augustine's Mr Paul Rayner P – 6 184

North Cairns Mother of Good Counsel Mrs Ruth Mallon P – 6 339

Parramatta Pk St Joseph's Mr Gavin Rick P – 6 388

Ravenshoe St Teresa's Mrs Catherine McKechnie P – 6 121

Redlynch St Andrew's Catholic College Mr Lee McMaster P – 12 772 869

Silkwood St John's Mr Scott Whitters (Acting) P – 6 54

South Johnstone St Rita's Mrs Vicki Conomo P – 6 105

Thursday Island/ Hammond Is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Mrs Sharon County P – 6 89

Trinity Park Holy Cross Mrs Wendy Manners P – 6 523

Tully St Clare's Mr Greg Hoare P – 6 159

Woree St Gerard Majella Mr Andrew Maley (Acting) P – 6 390

Woree St Mary's Catholic College Mr David Harris 7 – 12

823

TOTAL 6,215 4,518

TOTAL ENROLMENTS 10,733

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Our students

STUDENTS BY YEAR LEVEL

Primary Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

TOTAL 937 884 961 878 889 856 811

Secondary Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12

TOTAL 809 607 826 825 762 689

Federal Census 2015

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ENROLMENT TREND

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Primary 5729 5980 5906 5908 6060 6151 6255 6464 6655 6771 6215 Secondary 2854 3051 3188 3398 3543 3483 3658 3786 3780 3854 4518 TOTAL 8582 9031 9094 9306 9603 9634 9913 10250 10435 10625 10732 Annual % Movement

4.32% 5.23% 0.70% 2.33% 3.19% 0.32% 2.90% 3.40% 1.8% 1.82% 1.01%

FTE, Federal Census, August 2015

Federal Census 2015

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STUDENTS OF ABORIGINAL / TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DESCENT

Enrolments

* As a % of primary enrolments ** As a % of secondary enrolments

STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Enrolments

Number %

Primary 120 *1.93

Secondary 88 **1.96

TOTAL 208 1.94

Federal Census 2015

* As a % of primary enrolments ** As a % of secondary enrolments

Number %

Primary 487 *7.84

Secondary 499 **4.65

TOTAL 986 9.19

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Federal Census 2015

YEAR 12 OUTCOMES

Overall - %

Cairns Cairns Indigenous QLD Catholic 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Received QCE 94.9 92.7 94 92 91 93.9 82.3 86 88 83 86.4 92.1 92 91 90 OP eligible 69.9 71.6 72 74 80 30.6 29.4 28 47 48 67.8 66.1 68 68 69 VET 55.4 51.5 66 47 45 73.5 64.7 72 55.8 38 32.2 49 57 55 53 No qual 1.2 1.6 2 4.7 2.5 4.1 2.9 11.1 8.8 6.9 7.9 2.4 Not available

Students in OP bands

Year OP Bands OP Eligible Cohort

1’s 1 - 5 6 - 10 11 - 15 16 - 25

2015 20 111 151 141 6 469 671

4.3% 23.7% 32.2% 30.1 14% 70%

2014 6 95 154 145 63 462 645

1.2% 20.2% 33.3% 31.3% 13.6% 72%

2013 8 94 136 133 81 444 617

1.8% 21.2% 30.6% 30% 18.2% 72%

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Destinations

NAPLAN RESULTS

Overall Numeracy Cairns Diocese Queensland Australia 2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013 Year 3 Mean 396.6 397 413 392.8 386 408 397.8 397 419

Participation Rate 95.9 95.6 97 93.0 93.9 94 94.7 94.9 95 Year 5 Mean 492.2 487 490 485.9 487 487 492.3 486 494

Participation Rate 95.9 97.2 97 93.2 94.5 95 95.1 95.4 96 Year 7 Mean 550.4 554 540 539.2 539 531 542.6 542 535

Participation Rate 96.6 96.3 96 93.0 94.5 95 94.7 95.1 96 Year 9 Mean 595.1 594 586 584.9 573 567 591.7 584 573

Participation Rate 94.3 96.1 96 88.4 90 91 91.0 91.4 92

Overall Literacy Cairns Diocese Queensland Australia 2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013 Year 3 Mean 417.1 408.8 387 412.7 407.4 386 421.0 418.4 397

Participation Rate 96.8 96.6 97 93.2 94.4 94 95.0 95.4 95 Year 5 Mean 498.4 488.9 488 488.5 480.1 481 494.6 493.7 486

Participation Rate 96.5 97.3 97 93.7 95 95 95.5 95.9 95 Year 7 Mean 541.4 546 546 502.5 530.5 539 507.2 535.5 542

Participation Rate 97.0 95.8 96 93.0 95 95 94.7 95.1 95 Year 9 Mean 577.8 590 590 584.9 566.8 573 591.7 584 584

Participation Rate 95.1 96.1 95 88.4 91 90 91.0 91.4 91

Destinations* - %

2014 reported in

2015

2013 reported in

2014

2012 reported in

2013

2011 reported in

2012

2010 reported in

2011

University 43.5 45 40.2 46 36 VET Cert IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma 3.9 3.3 3.2 3.5 3 VET Cert III/Studying Certificate III 1.7 1.6 2 3 3 VET Cert I-II/Studying Certificate I or II 1.5 1.8 2.4 2 3 Apprentice 7.3 5.7 5 8.5 9 Trainee 2.7 3.9 2.1 2.5 5 Working full-time 11.6 10.4 8.7 14.5 17 Working part-time 18.3 19.6 7.7 15 18 Seeking work 8.3 5.9 5.4 4.5 5 Not studying and not in the labour force 1.2 1.8 0.4 1 1

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* Collected by QLD Government from May-Sept 2014 from students who completed Year 12 in 2013. These figures represent only those students who responded to the survey and not 100% of the cohort. 2014 response rate: 82.4%

Leave Taken 2015

Sick Days (SL, SLWPA)

Teaching 4686 Non-Teaching 3249 Boarding 673

Unpaid Leave (Short Term-up to 5 days)

Teaching 486 Non-Teaching 658 Boarding 246

Maternity Leave Number of Staff 53 Unpaid Leave (Long Term > 4 wks)

Number of Staff 83

Employment Concluded

Number of Staff 221

Our Staff

Numbers As at 1 Nov 2015

Total Staff Employed 2257 Permanent 915 Fixed Term 921 Casual 421 Male 528 Female 1729 CES Office & Professional Services 120 Schools Teachers 887 Relief Teachers 253 Non-Teaching 637 Boarding Staff 89 Teachers on Leave 72 FTE Total Staff 1366.22 CESO 102.44 Teachers 813.01 Support 390.61 New staff Total 319

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FINANCIALS

Income and Expenditure

PRIMARY SCHOOLS (20), DIOCESAN COLLEGES (9) & CES

Income $ % Fees & Levies and other Private Income 36,683,340 23.23% State & Commonwealth Recurrent Grants 121,236,623 76.77% Total Income 157,919,963 100.00%

Expenditure $ % Salaries & Wages, Salary On-Costs, Grant Expenditure – Targeted, Other 152,898,427 96.82% Total Expenditure 152,898,427 96.82% Surplus 5,021,536 3.18% Add Capital Income (including government capital grants) 7,025,823 Net Surplus after Capital Income 12,047,359

Based on 2015 final audited financial statements

Block Grants Authority funding Cairns Catholic Education had one successful application in the 2015 BGA round, following the two new schools at Mount Peter and Weipa being approved in the 2014 round.

School/College Project Description Project Cost School Contribution

Capital Grant

Saint Rita’s School, South Johnstone

Demolish existing pupil and staff amenities and maintenance store. Construct new staff room, pupil and staff amenities and maintenance store. Conversion and refurbishment of former staff room to IT room and interview room.

$ 638,012 $ 30,000 $ 608,012

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