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.
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 P-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 Pre-school 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 LGHS, workshops at 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, 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
- Combined events
- Sharing calendar
- Combined Community Liaison Officers (CLO) - forums, information days, Parent Cafe, community hub development
