Assistant Principal - Mission and Wellbeing
Tell Them From Me Survey
The continuing interest of schools to reflect on their progress and consider areas of improvement must be formed using rich and relevant data. St Paul’s is fortunate to engage in a nationwide survey tool, Tell Them From Me, which the College community will undertake within the next fortnight. The Tell Them From Me survey provides a comprehensive set of questions within the different contexts of students, staff and parents. The questions are specifically designed to suit the context of the College, and the data presented is very important at St Paul’s as it provides rich commentary on our actions and progress in the areas of Mission, Pastoral Care and Learning & Teaching.
The Tell Them From Me survey presents students with ten measures of areas indicating the level of student engagement alongside five drivers of student outcomes - quality instruction, teacher-student relations, classroom learning climate, expectations for success and student advocacy. The Tell Them From Me survey tracks St Paul’s in comparison to other high schools within the Diocese of Lismore as well as schools throughout Australia and the leadership group of the school reviews the data presented within this comparison and against past years results.
The measures of student engagement at school are subdivided into three key areas:
- Social engagement - a sense of belonging at school, participation in sports and clubs and positive friendships at school.
- Institutional engagement - values schooling outcomes, attendance, positive behaviour and homework/study habits.
- Intellectual - interest and motivation, effort and being appropriately challenged.
The College requires all participants - students, teachers and parents, to take this opportunity to respond thoroughly to the questions asked as the feedback garnered by the survey is very important for St Paul’s to consider our opportunity to continue to provide better outcomes for students, staff and families.
Mr Geoffrey Melville - Assistant Principal - Mission and Wellbeing