Annual Implementation Plan (AIP)

9. Advice for new schools

To guide a school’s first year of operation, schools must develop a stand-alone AIP, and will develop their first SSP in their second year of operation, after their school review.

This new schools’ AIP contains an additional tab where schools can write their goals, targets and KIS for the first 12 months of operation (as there is no SSP from which these can be pre-populated).

To support this, the first AIP should establish broad goals and targets relating to student learning and wellbeing outcomes. These goals and targets consider the school vision and establish a clear direction for improving student outcomes.

The AIP should be endorsed within the first term of the school’s operation.

Depending on the timing of their review, some new schools will need to develop a stand-alone AIP for their second year of operation, to be used until the school’s first SSP has been developed following their first school review. For further detail on how the timing of review affects AIP planning, see Advice for schools in review.

Data available to new schools

As it is their first year of operation, new schools will not have access to the same data sources as established schools to inform their planning. However, there are a variety of data sources available that can inform initial annual planning.

Census data from profile.id.com.au can provide local government area demographic information about student cohorts. A comprehensive community profile can be downloaded from the site.

Useful data sets include:

• population summary
• culturally diverse population statistics
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
• proficiency in English
• disability statistics
• household type
• Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) index of disadvantage.

Schools will collect data on their incoming students via the School Entrant Health Questionnaire (Primary only) and Student Family Occupation Education (SFOE) information during enrolment.

New secondary schools can collect transition data from feeder schools to gain information about incoming student cohorts. This data is available in CASES21.

Further student, teacher and parent data will become available as it is collected throughout the year.