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It is with pride that I present the Shenton College Annual Report. Our College’s achievements continue to embody our shared values of Care, Curiosity, and Collaboration, and reflect the tremendous energy and excitement we all bring to our school. Of course, in 2020 our achievements were within the context of a global crisis influencing every level of our society. The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on our whole community, and our wonderful school was certainly not immune.

Shenton College Annual Report 2020

It is with great pleasure that I present to you the Shenton College Annual Report for 2019. Once again, our College’s achievements embody our shared values: those of Care, Curiosity, and Collaboration. Shenton College’s holistic educational focus strives to develop both the academic and non-academic traits of a child. The consistent message that we look to communicate through all our touch points with our community, including this Annual Report, is that whilst academic progress is important, it remains only one part of a child’s development. Our “Much More Than Marks, Learning for Life” motto is borne out of a College that seeks to develop more than just the academic citizen.

Michael Morgan, Principal

Annual Report 2019

Meredith Eddington is the new Alumni Manager at Shenton College.  Meredith has been appointed to help alumni from Hollywood SHS, Swanbourne SHS and Shenton College and one of the key areas she is looking to support is school reunions. If any alumni year group wishes to hold a reunion, Meredith is here to help organise a venue, catering and will help you to source and find memorabilia from your time at school.

For a reunion to work well people from that year need to gather their fellow alums together – find them & encourage them to attend, usually later in the year (October to December). This gives people living interstate & even overseas time to plan a trip home.

Meredith will also play a role in helping the College in the process of setting up a database to further establish a Shenton community and alumni will be an important part of this group.  As we collect information it will be recorded in the graduating year, the Class of 1970 or 1980, etc. and made available to use for school reunions and other events. More information about the database soon.

Meredith will also play a key role in organising our celebrations this year as Shenton College turns 20. A 20^th Year Celebration Cocktail Party is being held later in the year outside on our new landscaped terracing in front of Borneo house. More information on this event soon.

Our thanks go to our College P&C for their support of this valuable initiative.

Please email Meredith at meredith.eddington@education.wa.edu.au if you wish to discuss anything alumni and/or events.

Dear Shenton College Community

The Shenton College Board is very pleased to report that our College has secured an outstanding external review of its performance. A copy of the review report is attached.

Each Western Australian public school is reviewed every 3 years by the Department of Education, and we were extremely pleased to receive the report from Brett Hunt, the Public School Review Director, at our board meeting on Monday evening.

Brett could not have been more complimentary of the standards achieved by Shenton College across all 6 of the measured domains. He was eager to ensure that we clearly understood how our College sets an impressive benchmark for public schooling in our State. Particularly pleasing for the Board were his observations that:

• Having assessed the College on 3 separate occasions, he considers that the standards of excellence have become culturally embedded throughout the staff and student bodies
• High level leadership and alignment to a clear moral purpose is evident throughout all levels of the leadership hierarchy and
• The assessment demonstrated that Shenton’s emphasis on authenticity (delivering on what is said to be important), alignment (between strategy and operational performance) and accountability (regular measurement and transparency) is paying ongoing dividends in terms of student outcomes.

The letter confirming the completion of the review from Stephen Baxter, the Deputy Director General, Schools, confirmed this theme:

The high levels of trust in the college and its leadership, founded on the authentic and consistent commitment to ‘much more than marks – learning for life’ ethos is to be commended. The strategic intent of the college is clear and enhanced by the unified purpose of leaders in a culture of continuous improvement.

The rating of “effective” is the highest rating available and provides comfort to the entire Shenton College community that our College is delivering on its commitments.

On behalf of the Board, I wish to thank Michael Morgan and the entire leadership and staff for their outstanding commitment, energy and collaboration in securing this outcome. The report is a credit to each of you, and validates that you have created a learning environment in which students are “safe to pursue their interests, both academically and creatively, in an orderly and inclusive environment.”

Congratulations all.

Mal Cooke

Shenton College Board Chair

4 December 2019

Recently our school website was nominated as a finalist in the Education Website section of the inaugural Australian Access Awards. Our site has a number of best practice accessibility features built into it to ensure that what is often people’s first point of contact with the school is inclusive for all members of our community.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that last week, not only did we win the Education Website award, but we also went on to take out the national award for Accessible Website of the Year.

Jasmine Pearson is the first Shenton College student to win a Tuckwell Scholarship. This prestigious award, valued at $125,000, will enable her to study for up to five years full time at the Australian National University in Canberra.

There were only three students in WA included in the national selection of 25 Tuckwell Scholarship winners. The Tuckwell Scholarship program, established seven years ago, is renowned for its generosity, allowing students to fully focus on their studies rather than trying to make ends meet. It is regarded as the pinnacle of university scholarships in Australia.

Jasmine said the scholarship would enable her to bring to fruition her dream of moving east to study, and she plans to pursue studies in Health Science and Anthropology with a view to becoming involved in public health, particularly Indigenous health.