1. 47 School Pilot

2. Background
 Initially 30 schools - 47
 “Deliver more for students by
understanding best practice in a flexible
environment”
 the bias is strongly towards “yes”
 resources better used
 children benefit from innovation and focus
because one size does NOT fit all
 Three facets to the pilot – maintenance,
cleaning, staffing

3. Pilot schools receive regular reports
Support:
 Senior Project Officer
 HR
 Finance
 Assett Management
 ………………

4.  Regularly updated electronic financial planning tools
 Fortnightly finance reports
 Focus on building management capacity is a critical
component of success -principals, executive,
SAMs/Business Managers (but also region and state
office personnel)
 Increasing focus upon business information accuracy,
 Transparency, presentation and alignment with “real
school” management needs;
 Making effective use of our developing business
systems. Accuracy allows small schools to act!
 Give schools the money and business information to
manage all staff leave; long term leave and current short
term (global) funding
 Expenditure plan based on notional budget

5. Report 1 will give you a snap shot summary and show
your how you are tracking against your budget.
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6. Under temporary engagements and casual
employment the pilot has allowed the
employment of the following:
 Operational and Educational Paraprofessionals
 Physiotherapists
 Speech Pathologists
 Business Managers
 Additional Head Teachers
 Additional Classroom Teachers
 Additional SASS staff - SAO’s, SAM’s, SLOS, GA’s
 Additional Assistant Principals
 Additional Deputy Principals
 Aboriginal Education Officers
 Additional Year Advisors

7. Thurgoona Public School - 2011
 additional full-time classroom teacher
 additional full-time teacher – Semester 1
 casual teachers for professional development release (30 days)
 additional SAO - 0.2
 additional class teacher - 0.2
 additional class teacher - 0.2 – Terms 2 and 3

8. Why?
 Collating information to debate the
broader issues of distributed authority
 How is school management going to look
in the future?
 What will Principal authority, as opposed
to autonomy, evolve into?