school context at St Patrick's School

·   school size and student distribution across year levels:
250 udents, 10 composite classes plus a Special Education Unit.
community background:
85% Asian (mainly of Vietnamese origin)

·   the proportion of specific groups of students, eg those with school card, NESB, Aboriginal students, special needs students,
74% school card, 85% NESB, no Aboriginal students,7 Special Education students (all with mild to moderate intellectual disability, 2 with Autism, 2 with Asbergers)
specific programs within the school to support students:
Rainbow Reading, 0.45 Reading Recovery, ESL support (120 mins per week each class), ESL intensive support with targeted students, 0.2 Adaptive Education, Languages (Vietnamese Mother-Tongue), 0.4 IT Specialist, 0.4 REC, 0.5 PE Specialist, 0.4 Literacy Coordinator, Behaviour Management Key Teacher.

·   specific curriculum, cross curriculum and / or community initiatives:
Regional Enrichment Programme, Inter-school Sport, Parish Sacramental
Programmes.

·   class size, year level(s) that this unit was implemented upon:
Year 6 ­ 14 students        Year 7 ­ 12 students

·   specific school issues, eg newly amalgamated, newly established, rapidly growing, closing:
Low Socio-ecomic status.

·   the proportion of specific groups of students, eg those with school card, NESB, Aboriginal students, gender, special needs students within the class:
Marginally more girl students than boys, 1 Special Education student, no Aboriginal students, 21 NESB students (mainly Vietnamese), 5 non-Asian students, 7 Special Needs students, 1 NCP student.

·   classroom / teaching setting, eg single classroom, double unit, vertical group, composite class, team teaching , tandem teaching.
This 6/7 class is a single classroom, composite class, cross age tutoring, year level cooperative planning.