How will your school score?

Sydney
26 January

School was out for summer

Bishops visit Canberra evacuation centres

Cash only, please

Vatican guide to politicians

Live Christ's message of love

World Meeting of Families

$960,000 grant aids inner city homeless

Pope's words by SMS

Youth camp call for volunteers

Relief, anxiety go hand in hand as kidsgo hand in hand to their new schools

How will your school score?

First day tears, but not just because of school

Editorial: A time to cherish

Letters: Religion of man

Conversation: Simon Katich, NSW cricket captain and test hopeful - Cricket's like faith: You have to believe

Reality of Christmas and the passion

Reaching out to a 'hidden population'

Ashbury, a quiet spot where retired nuns generate 'pastoral dynamism'

On the right wavelength

Clock-watching and the sports bra inspire students in HSC projects

Bowling club will go into retreat

How will your school score?

Parents of Sydney's Catholic schoolchildren will receive an extra report at the end of the year - on the school's performance.

Each school develops its own strategic management plan outlining its priorities, strategies and desired outcomes over a five-year period.

At the end of last year, most principals also prepared an annual report for their school communities that addressed how they fared in meeting their annual targets.

This year all schools will produce one to show how they measured up with their annual development plan, which they will prepare early in the year.

The formal reports are a progression on the more informal reports by schools in the past - through newsletters and meetings with parents.

Their contents will vary from school to school, but will include information on the fees received from parents 7and how they were used.

They will also provide information on the areas of student learning and welfare, curriculum, parent involvement, the religious dimension and school administration.

Student performance results will also be included.

Br Kelvin Canavan, executive director of schools for the Archdiocese of Sydney, said: "We are very aware of the huge investment parents make in their children's education … and want to ensure they are professionally informed on how these schools perform."