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Community Report 2014

CELEBRATING 50 : 50 GIRLS AND BOYS CO-EDUCATION

Baptist Grammar School

Carey

CAREY’S FUTURE2

Carey’s Charter

HOW DOES CAREY DISTINGUISH ITSELF?

Learning At Carey learning is dynamic, empowering and lifelong. All decisions are taken to improve student learning.

Excellence At Carey we strive for excellence across the three Carey pillars: curricular, co-curricular and wellbeing.

Staff At Carey our staff are expected to be expert in their fi elds, collegiate and passionate. They are supported to be the best they can be.

Co-education At Carey we nurture a balanced co-educational environment to prepare our students to lead, learn and serve with confi dence, capacity and compassion.

Service At Carey we actively pursue social justice which is refl ective of our Christian ethos.

Innovation At Carey we improve through courageous innovation, while respecting our traditions.

Partnerships At Carey we build strong relationships based on respect, trust and collaboration.

CAREY VALUES:

Integrity … care, honesty, morality, respect

Service … altruism, generosity, passion, sustainability

Spirituality … communal, contemporary, holistic, inclusive

Teamwork … collaboration, communication, initiative, leadership

Thinking … creativity, inquisitiveness, intellect, refl ection

Wellbeing … courage, happiness, health, resilience

WHAT IS CAREY?

Carey is a leading Christian, co-educational independent school community committed to learning, wellbeing, service and spirituality.

WHAT DOES CAREY DO?

Carey works in partnership with families to develop wise, independent and motivated young people who will engage with and lead in their local, national and global communities.

Carey Community Report 2014 | 1

Founded in 1923, Carey is a leading Christian co-educational independent school community, committed to student learning, wellbeing, service and spirituality.

Carey is an open-entry school with a philosophy of education that is based around a broad and challenging curriculum, an extensive co-curricular activities program and comprehensive, individualised care for all students through its wellbeing program.

The School is affiliated with the Baptist Union of Victoria and a member of the Associated Public Schools (APS).

Carey enjoys a full enrolment of students from Early Learning to Year 12 and, since 2011, we have proudly maintained a whole school 50:50 gender ratio.

More than 1,700 families contribute to the current enrolment of students. The Old Carey Grammarians Association has over 17,000 members. In addition, parent and alumni groups provide significant support through a number of clubs, associations and activities. Communication within our broad community is facilitated through open contact and regular publications such as the weekly School newsletter, Torch magazine and the annual Carey Chronicle.

Our enrolments and waiting lists remain strong. Annual surveys of staff, parents, current students and former students indicate strong satisfaction with Carey’s offerings and outcomes. The feedback we receive is analysed thoroughly and is an important resource for setting the School’s annual goals.

In 2012, the Carey Board approved and released a new Carey Charter, which is a refreshed version of Carey’s Vision and Mission. Also in 2012, and in support of the Carey Charter, the School’s Strategic Plan, Carey’s Future Strategic Directions: Towards our Centenary 2023, was released. This plan has been developed following comprehensive consultation with Carey students, staff, parents and Old Carey Grammarians. It affirms Carey’s strengths and allows us to make the most of new opportunities, so that Carey will continue to be regarded as a leading independent school. We will be seeking your support with its implementation.

I commend the 2014 Community Report to you. Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.Philip Grutzner PRINCIPAL

Introduction


In 2014, the School Management Team is comprised of:

Philip Grutzner (Principal) James Brown (Head of Senior School) Caroline Creese (Director of Community Relations) Darralyn Cusack (Head of Middle School) David Dannock (Business Director) Leanne Guillon (Deputy Principal) Peter Robson (Director of Activities) Libby Russell (Head of Junior School, Kew) Dorothy Tselios (Director of Human Resources) Steve Wilson (Head of Junior School, Donvale)

Jane Simon (Chair) Alan Wilkins (Vice-Chair) Norman O’Bryan (Secretary) Isabelle Lefevre-Gilford (Treasurer) Nadia Carlin Michael Cooke Jane Favaloro Gary Heard

Carey is a public company limited by guarantee and its Directors form the School Board, which provides overall governance of the School and sets its strategic direction. Operational matters are delegated to the Principal. The Board is supported by the activities of Sub-Committees including Executive, Finance/Audit, Risk, Nominations and Pastoral Care. The School is managed on a daily basis by the School Management Team.

As of 1 January 2014 the School Board comprised the following members:

Robert Iles Ben Jensen Graeme Liebelt Alice Macdougall Trevor Black (Staff Representative) Philip Grutzner (ex-officio, Principal) Leanne Guillon (ex-officio, Deputy Principal) David Dannock (ex-officio, Business Director)

Governance and Corporate Structure


Model for Learning

Carey believes it provides a healthy learning environment for all students, with value added at all year levels. The nature of the value added is best expressed in the School’s Model for Learning:

Carey is a leading Christian, co-educational, independent learning community committed to providing the best possible educational opportunities. We work in partnership with parents to develop young people who will contribute to local, national and global communities. All facets of learning — intellectual, social, emotional, physical, creative and spiritual — are at the heart of the Carey community. A broad range of curricular, co-curricular and wellbeing offerings provide the opportunities and support that allow each student to achieve their best.


STUDENT OUTCOMES

Carey’s 2013 National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results were extremely encouraging. Our students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are performing well against the relevant minimum standard band levels.

All of our Year 12 students in 2013 attained a Year 12 certificate qualification. The combined 2013 VCE and IB result was outstanding, as shown on page 6. Carey’s results are all the more pleasing given our open enrolment policy. From the 2011 Year 10 student cohort, 232 or 91.34% entered Year 12 at Carey in 2013.

In addition, 31 Carey students are enrolled in vocational or trade training through the VET in Schools program in 2014, including 11 Year 12s, or approximately 4% of the cohort.

The School takes its legal responsibility for student welfare very seriously and we make every effort to ensure students’ safety and know their whereabouts at all times throughout the school day. Parents are regularly informed that if their child will be late or absent it is essential that they notify the School through the relevant telephone absentee line or email address by 9.00am. There are dedicated contact lines and email addresses for each of the school sections: Junior School Donvale, Junior School Kew, Middle School and Senior School. This ensures that the School can accurately monitor student attendance electronically. When arriving late to school or leaving early, students must sign-in/sign-out at their school section’s office. This information and additional guidelines are available on CareyLink, the School’s intranet.

STUDENT ATTENDANCE FIGURES: 2013*

Prep 93.4%Year 1 95.3%Year 2 95.6%Year 3 95.5%Year 4 95.5%Year 5 95.4%Year 6 94.7%

Year 7 95.9%Year 8 93.0%Year 9 94.6%Year 10 93.9%Year 11 94.0%Year 12 94.9%Whole School 94.6%

* Figures rounded to one decimal place

Student Attendance and Outcomes


STUDENTS AT OR ABOVE THE NATIONAL NAPLAN BENCHMARKS

YEAR LEVEL

MIN STD

BAND

READING2013

(2012)

WRITING2013

(2012)

SPELLING2013

(2012)

GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

2013 (2012)

NUMERACY2013

(2012)

3 2 100% (99%)

100% (100%)

96.9% (100%)

100% (99%)

100% (97%)

5 4 99% (98%)

99% (98%)

100% (100%)

98% (98%)

99% (97%)

7 5 99% (99%)

96.9% (99%)

99% (99%)

99% (100%)

98% (100%)

9 6 100% (99.5%)

98% (96%)

99% (97%)

99% (99.5%)

98% (100%)


YEAR 12 RESULTS (VCE AND IB COMBINED): 2013

ATAR 95 and above 25.6%

ATAR 99 and above 6.1%

Study Scores 40 and above (or IB equivalent) 30.8%

Mean ATAR 83.95

Median ATAR 87.95


*Double degrees have been included in both fields of study. All figures relate to first round offers and have been rounded to the nearest whole number.

VICTORIAN TERTIARY OFFERS TO CAREY STUDENTS BY INSTITUTION: 2013

VICTORIAN TERTIARY OFFERS TO CAREY STUDENTS BY FIELD OF STUDY*: 2013

Other 2%

RMIT University 20%

Monash University 24%

Deakin University 18%

La Trobe University 4%

The University of Melbourne 25%

TAFE


FINANCE

Carey is a not-for-profit organisation, but adheres to contemporary commercial business practices to ensure that finances are managed in an effective and efficient manner. Any end-of-year surplus is applied to facility development and/or repayment of borrowings. The following charts indicate budgeted sources of income and expenditure for the 2014 calendar year.

EXPENDITURE: 2014

Tuition fees 75.0%

Government funding 10.9%

Other income 13.3%

Fundraising < 1%

Education and general costs 12.9%

Property and maintenance costs 4.0%

Finance and other costs 2.6%

Reinvest in new facilities 14.6%

Employment costs 65.9%

Total: $66.5m

Total: $66.5m

INCOME: 2013Finance

INCOME: 2014


TOTAL GROSS RECURRENT INCOME: 2012

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE BY FUNDING SOURCE: 2012

Federal government recurrent funding 10%

Fees, charges and parent contributions 84%

Other private sources 3%

State government recurrent funding 3%

New school loans 33.0%

Income allocated to current capital projects 53.0%

Federal government capital expenditure 14.0%

Total: $57.6m

Total: $3.3m

In 2009 the Federal Government, through the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), began publishing limited financial data about schools on the My School website. Recently, the financial data for 2012 has been added. It is important to acknowledge that the available My School information relates to the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 financial years. Financial outcomes shown also include one-off capital government grants funding provided via the Building the Education Revolution (BER) and Digital Education Revolution (DER) programs and excludes financial information related to Early Learning Centre operations at Carey. Consequently, the information is not directly comparable with the budget income and expenditure figures tabled on page 8, which relate to 2014.

The School supports increased accountability but notes that financial information on the My School website does not reflect current or full information about the financial operations of schools. Further, the data shown is specific to ACARA’s formats. In the recent update to the My School site, the following information was published about Carey.

ACARA MY SCHOOL FINANCIAL DATA


The School operates at four campuses: Kew, Donvale, Bulleen and Toonallook. Facilities at all campuses are excellent and subject to continual renewal. During 2012, the Board approved a number of facility development priorities and these were outlined in the Strategic Directions document, Carey’s Future: Strategic Directions Towards our Centenary 2023.

The first significant project from the priorities identified is the Centre for Learning and Innovation. This facility encompasses a new Information Resources Centre and additional general and Science learning spaces. This facility will replace K Building and C Building. Construction is anticipated to commence in late 2014.

INCOME: 2013Facilities


Carey is committed to a sustainable future and this is referenced in current action plans pertaining to sustainable operations.

At the beginning of 2008 the School set five sustainability goals: a reduction in the level of general waste (rubbish), an increase in waste recycling, a reduction in the use of paper, a reduction in water use and a reduction in carbon emissions. These benchmarks are based on usage/consumption in the period between 2003 and 2007.

We have now assessed usage/consumption over the five-year period from 2008 to 2012 against these benchmarks. Outcomes were as follows:

• A decrease of 1% in annual paper use• A decrease of 7% in annual electricity use, adjusted for the impact of increased built space• A decrease of 47% in annual water use.

Sustainability

The School is currently reviewing the existing framework for managing its impact on the environment. Additional areas of emphasis will be environmentally sustainable building design, and analysis of both vehicle use and traffic movement related to School programs.


Carey aims to be an employer of choice. We firmly believe that the quality of the School will never exceed the quality of its staff. The School’s teaching and support staff, numbering 395 in 2014, operate under the umbrella of an Enterprise Agreement. In 2014, 69% of the staff were employed on a permanent full-time basis, and 31% on a permanent part-time basis.

All teaching members of staff have a prerequisite Bachelor degree and Diploma of Education (or equivalent), are registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and have undergone a criminal record check. A list of staff and their qualifications is included in the Carey Chronicle each year. Staff attendance was 96.84% in 2013 and the current staff retention rate is 90.80%.

Carey staff, like our students and their families, come from a range of countries, faiths and cultural traditions. No staff members at Carey in 2014 have indicated that they have an Indigenous Australian heritage.

A strong culture of Professional Learning and Development is promoted through the School. $560,000 was spent in this area in 2013. Across the School, our staff invested over 27,000 hours in professional development, on average each staff member spent 69 hours in professional development activities throughout the year. The Human Resources Department maintains records of staff attendance at all Professional Development programs.

Human Resources

Satisfaction Surveys

Each year Carey Baptist Grammar School participates in the Independent Schools Victoria (ISV) satisfaction surveys. In all three surveys — students, parents and staff — satisfaction levels were equal to, or well above, the ISV averages overall.

In 2013, 65 schools participated in the ISV Parent Satisfaction Survey. Carey parents rated the School above or equal to the ISV average in all eight sections of the survey.

In 2013, 61 schools participated in the ISV Student Satisfaction Survey. Carey students rated the School above the ISV average in all 14 sections of the survey.

In 2013, 67 schools participated in the ISV Staff Satisfaction Survey. Carey staff rated the School above the ISV average in 13 of the 15 sections of the survey.


Carey staff, students and families give a great deal of personal and financial support to a range of community organisations, both locally and overseas, most of which occurs through student-led House activities. They also spend a considerable number of hours volunteering in a range of organisations outside Carey. In 2013, Habitat for Humanity and the Indigenous community of Robinson River in the Northern Territory were significant focuses of the community’s volunteer efforts. In 2013, Carey activities raised total of $94,535 that was distributed among 57 organisations, and in 2012 a total of $87,327 was distributed among 48 organisations.

The recipients of Carey’s largest community service donations during the last two years have been:

2012 2013

World Vision Australia $22,654 International Needs Australia (Philippines tsunami relief)

$18,571

JMB Foundation $12,456 World Vision Australia $16,084Possible Dreams International $9,819 JMB Foundation $8,396Birthing Kit Foundation $6,000 National Breast Cancer Foundation $6,556Marma Rom Foundation $4,841 Whittlesea Community Connections $4,372

Community Support Activities

Director of Philanthropy

In January the school appointed Mack Jones as Director of Philanthropy. The primary role of the Director is to raise funds for the School through the implementation of a sound fundraising strategy commissioned by the Carey Board. This is a new role created to support the strategic directions of the School by creating positive and lasting relationships between the school and the Community.

Carey Baptist Grammar School A Leading Christian Co-educational Independent School

CRICOS # 00135G • ABN 83 051 576 062 • www.carey.com.au

1402-33

CAREY DONVALE

Early Learning and Junior School

9 Era Court Donvale Victoria 3111 Australia Telephone: 61 3 9842 2166

CAREY KEW

Early Learning, Junior, Middle and Senior Schools

349 Barkers Road Kew Victoria 3101 Australia Telephone: 61 3 9816 1222

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