LISA O'MALLEY -  Head of Mapoon Campus Personal After completing 12 years of schooling in Weipa, I attended James Cook University in Townsville where I obtained my Bachelor of Early Childhood Education.   Due to my great love for the Cape region, I returned to Weipa where I have taught for the past four years.  During this time, my main role was as the Year 3 Team Leader.   Within this role, I was responsible for the completion of Rich Tasks as well as supporting colleges to implement the New Basics Curriculum.  I am now proud to be a new member of the Mapoon community and assume the role of Acting Head of Campus.

My Role:   As the Head of Mapoon Campus, my core focus is ensuring that students achieve high quality learning outcomes in a safe, supportive school environment that is sensitive to cultural and community needs.  Through a focus on improving attendance, and the development and implementation of intellectually rigorous curriculum, I will work collaboratively with students, staff, parents and community members to deliver the outcomes for which I am accountable.        As Head of Campus, my goals for this semester are: continuing the high standard of student attendance fostering strong relationships between the school, parents and community. developing high quality curriculum to address reading, writing and spelling outcomes. improving Campus resources and infrastructure.  I will achieve these goals by: working with students, staff, parents and community networks to develop a shared goal for 100% attendance for all students developing partnerships with parents and community groups to establish co-operative approaches to improving educational outcomes for all students implementing an �Intensive Literacy Block� that will run each day P - 6.  This will allow students to develop literacy skills by providing modeled, shard and guided reading and writing opportunities that are specific to each individuals learning needs seeking a variety of funding opportunities and utilsing existing resources to maintain, upgrade and build facilities, to improve the physical environment of the school Head of Campus Report 24/07/06