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NSW Treasury Visit To Plumpton High School

 

Plumpton High School hosted NSW Treasury officials yesterday. We would like thank Mark, Matt, Alex and William for taking the time from your busy schedule to visit our school. In addition thank you to Joyce the Director of Corporate Finance from The Department for organising this visit and attending.

The Treasury officials work with The Department of Education to secure the funding within the NSW Treasury to fund NSW Public Schools. Each NSW Public School receives this funding through their School Budget Allocation Report (SBAR) annually to run all components of their school. This budget is a combination of NSW and Commonwealth Government (Gonski) funding. The budget is broken into various components; Base School Allocation (Staffing and Operational Funding), Equity Loadings (Socio-economic Background, Aboriginal Background, English Language Proficiency and Low Level adjustment for Disability) and Targeted Funding (Refugee Student Support, New Arrivals Program and Integration Funding Support)

The Treasury officials gained a deeper understanding on the strategic way in which school principals utilise their budget under the NSW Resource Allocation Model to make evidence based and informed decisions. These decisions all centre on the provision of the best possible education for students that prepares them for the future focused world we live in within the ‘Disruption Revolution’.

To deliver this we have to resource Public Schools appropriately and adequately to enable them to secure the best human resources inclusive of teaching and non-teaching staff as well as professional learning/teaching and learning resourcing that meet contextual needs of the community and the world beyond school.

In addition, infrastructure and capital resourcing is critical to ensure our students are able to compete with the Independent, Catholic and other school systems on an equal footing using the most current technologies and other resources that prepares our students in Public Education for further study or the workforce to meet current and future workforce needs.