The Liverpool Community of Schools (LC2) community engagement project connects the public schools in the Liverpool Health, Education, Research and Innovation Precinct.
This project will also operate within a community engagement framework, which is in the process of being developed.
At present Liverpool Community of Schools LC2 meets once a term. Members are principals of the LC2 schools.
The Liverpool community of schools consists of:
Directional focus
The LC2 project comes off the back of the August 2017 PWC report Reimagining the Liverpool Health, Education, Research and Innovation Precinct (PDF 10MB). It has 3 directional focus areas:
- Providing a linkage between schools to create a Kindergarten to Year 12 approach to public education in the Liverpool area that aligns with the plans to make Liverpool a health, education, research and innovation precinct.
- Create an education pathway for our students that is seamless from preschool to Year 12 and beyond.
- Capitalise on the partnerships between the Liverpool Community of Schools LC2 and the other areas of health, education, research and innovation having a major position within the precinct partnership.
What we do now as a NSW Public School Entity
- strong network that is established
- links established
- common ideas
What we can achieve
We're working towards a systematic shared approach to:
- smoother transition from primary to high school
- professsional learning
- student engagement
- parent engagement
- common language
- sharing of community resources.
Additionally, we are working towards the following:
Curriculum continuity
- P-12 perspective linking a seamless curriculum use of literacy and numeracy continuum for model
- understand content - knowledge and understanding, skills, curriculum links
- mapping of curriculum - content, units and expectations
- focus on student learning across all systems - building a continuous progression of outcomes
Shared pedagogy and strategy
- awareness and understanding of pedagogy P-12 - building teaching and learning practice
- mapping continuous ways of learning
- map P-12 pedagogy
- build a flow of pedagogy between stages
Shared resources and resource development
- sharing of expertise - coding, dance, sport, robotics, reading, writing, literacy, numeracy, mathematics
- share resources across schools - gym and dance studio at Liverpool Girls High School (LGHS), workshops at Liverpool Boys High School (LBHS), Hospital auditorium, learning spaces at Wollongong University and Western Sydney University
- integrated curriculum and teaching and learning resources such as a programming strategy
- digital literacy workshops to build understanding such as coding and robotics
Shared human resource
- sharing of expertise throughout the community
- industry experts to mentor students and teachers
- use of subject experts and specialists such as positive behaviour learning
Shared professional learning approaches
- leadership development - COS lead /coaching
- compliance training and development such as CPR, First Aid Training, WHS
- providing Professional Learning suites for accreditation: Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEM/STEAM) based, Technology focus area training
- inter-school professional learning registered/non-registered (accreditation)
- inter-school staff experiences
Access to special projects
- STEM/STEAM - common threads P-12 (LGHS)
- STEAMPUNK Girls (LGHS)
- bring your parents to school day (LGHS)
- sydney Story Factory (ALL)
- muralisto (ALL)
- project-based Learning
- alternative curriculum (LBHS)
- football Project (LBHS)
Shared community integration
- combined events
- sharing calendar
- combined Community Liaison Officers (CLO) - forums, information days, Parent Cafe, community hub development