journeys. This, combined with continuous assessment and reporting, will be the future of measuring student performance and outcomes. We have multiple sources of student data at our disposal to use and cultivate individual student program plans. We have never been as data rich and knowledgeable as we are at the end of 2024. We also challenged our families to become more involved as partners in their children's learning, and their increased engagement has been invaluable in supporting our students ’ success. This is a mindset change for families, but we are committed to maintaining these partnerships and will keep challenging our parents/carers to join us in bettering the learning of both their children and developing a strong community hub for learning. This will continue to set a positive tone around the community, address gaps in learning away from school, encourage participation in learner agency meetings, fundraising, other important events and ultimately build relationships that bind us all together as one. We are definitely buoyed by the one hundred plus parents/carers who completed the Parent Opinion Survey this year and we will work with School Council to analyse their feedback and reboot for 2025. Our student performance/results have been relayed to you through multiple forums throughout the year. There are so many wins and so much that we are proud of. Our Primary NAPLAN data is now the best in our network for Literacy and Numeracy and exceeds local private schools. Our Prep results demonstrate that the majority of students have achieved our target of 12 - months growth. Our Year 5 - 6 students have had their exposure to Secondary programs expanded in 2024 and the transition will become simpler and more seamless as we continue to integrate. On Secondary, we are already ahead of our local Secondary schools in NAPLAN Year 7
and 9 Literacy. Our Numeracy data is slowly increasing, but with a clear and articulated plan, which includes additional intervention for next year, we are very confident of significant growth. On this, we are buoyed with our VCE Mathematics results. Two Year 11 students achieved a 40 Study Score for Units 3 - 4 General Mathematics and our Median for the class was 31. There is significant growth and a process to harness and grow in 2025. Whilst we broke records with the number of tours and an increased focus on transition, we still need to improve the retention between the Primary and Secondary Campuses. As a College community, we must find a way to retain all students so that our work and investment that we apply in the early years pays dividends at the top end of the College. We understand that families will move children for a variety of legitimate reasons, which is okay, however the virtues of staying at The Lakes for Secondary schooling are looming large. What may help in families ’ decision - making is our wonderful VCE Year 12 results. In only our third instalment of VCE, we can now say that we have serious credibility with remarkable results achieved by this year ’ s cohort. Our Median VCE Study Score went from 24 to 30 making us the highest - performing Government school in our network and scoring higher than the majority of our local Catholic and Independent schools. If we could manage 32, that would take us into the highest 20 performing Government school ’ s statewide. The other important factor is that 54% of students had an ATAR of above 70 and 15% above 80%. Our median Study Score of 30 in English was outstanding. The through line and pleasing message is consistency across all subjects. In addition, many students embarked on VETs and our VM program is extremely popular amongst senior students. Learning approaches may vary but the challenge to improve and achieve your best remain strong.
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