Ingleburn High School

Ingleburn High School is a government-funded comprehensive co-educational secondary day school, located in Ingleburn, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Ingleburn High School
Location
Ingleburn, South Western Sydney,
New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates34°00′19″S 150°52′16″E
Information
TypeGovernment-funded co-educational secondary day school
MottoTolerance, Integrity and Excellence
Established1960 (1960)
Educational authorityNSW Department of Education
Years7-12
Enrolment880 (2008)
Websitewww.ingleburn-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Overview

The school follows the NSW Board of Studies' curriculum, which is provided to all schools in NSW. The School's motto is "Tolerance, Integrity and Excellence".[1] In 2008, the school consisted of 63.6[2] teaching staff and approximately 880 students.[3]

Of the year 7 cohort, 2007, 50% met national numeracy benchmarks.[4]

The 2009 year 9 cohort ranked below or substantially below both similar schools and all Australian schools in all performance areas (reading, writing, grammar & punctuation and numeracy) except for spelling in which the cohort performed close to similar and all Australian schools.

For 2009, Ingleburn High School was ranked 455 out of 555 NSW secondary schools by The Sydney Morning Herald, placing it in the bottom 20% of schools for which data was available.[5]

In 2004, the student attendance rate for years 7 to 10 was below the district and state averages.[6] In the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the student attendance rate for years 7 to 10 and for years 11 to 12 were below the state averages.[7] In 2008, the staff attendance rate was 93.9%.[8]

There are programmes to support students of specific non-European origins.[9][10] One programme in particular involves a "federally funded" "Aboriginal Education Worker" whose role will be to work with only Aboriginal students. The reason for this staff member is that the State has made it compulsory that only students of Aboriginal origin must have an "Individual Education Plan".[11] Other programmes available to all students include the school newsletter voucher programme in which students who "collect 3 vouchers from different newsletters"[12][13] may redeem their vouchers for a bronze award from a deputy principal.

The school's latest programme is PBIS or "Positive Behavior In School"; a programme developed by the "U.S. Office of Special Education Programs".[14] The programme occupies students' time every fortnight requiring students to "focus on the positive behavioural expectations...of all students". Workshops includes topics such as "discussing with students our expectations regarding...moving around and through corridors and walkways". This programme also occupies staff time in "development sessions".[15]

Alumni

See also

References
  1. http://www.ingleburn-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/# | go to ‘Parents’ then ‘About us’
  2. Ingleburn High School: "Annual School Report 2008", page 9, 2009
  3. Ingleburn High School: "Annual School Report 2008", page 2, 2009
  4. Ingleburn High School: "Annual School Report 2007", page 4, 2008
  5. "Secondary NSW Ranked". The Sydney Morning Herald. January 2010.
  6. Ingleburn High School: "Annual Report 2004", page 7
  7. Ingleburn High School: "Annual School Report 2008", page 2
  8. Ingleburn High School: "Annual School Report 2008", page 9
  9. "Youth Partnership with Pacific Communities". NSW Department of Community Services. Archived from the original on 19 October 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
  10. ""The School TIE", TWUGIA, page 4, December 2007" (PDF). Ingleburn High School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
  11. ""The School TIE", A Huge Welcome to our new Aboriginal Education Worker, page 4, September 2008" (PDF). Ingleburn High School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  12. Ingleburn High School: "the School TIE", page 12. November, 2007
  13. ""The School TIE", page 10, December 2007" (PDF). Ingleburn High School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
  14. "PBIS Website". OSEP. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  15. Ingleburn High School: "The School TIE", page 3, May 2008
  16. "Tests show NSW students are behind other states in everything except spelling". The Daily Telegraph.
  17. "Meg Lees: The unauthorised story". The Sydney Morning Herald.
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