2025 Impact Report – Catholic Regional College, St Albans

St Albans is a Y7-10 school in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne that has made a strong start towards providing the best opportunities for students through high quality and consistent teaching and learning.

After a review in 2024, the leadership team set a clear plan to improve literacy and numeracy, as well as provide a more effective model of coaching to enhance teacher capacity. Staff completed the Masterclass Series in 2025, along with leadership completing the Instructional Lead Fellowship. A whole-school workshop aligning to the Masterclass Series also ensured the staff had a shared and consistent understanding to high quality teaching and learning. The Curriculum Survey conducted as part of the Instructional Lead Fellowship, with a focus on Mathematics, provided valuable information from the department on curriculum. This highlighted the need
for a focus on developing fine grained unit outlines to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum.

Implementation of the Full Participation Principles began in the Mathematics faculty, with the Mathematics Leader facilitating professional learning and modelling explicit teaching practices and use of the Ochre slides as a base resources. Their efforts paid off. For Maths, there was a clear upward shift in achievement for Year 7 students, with the proportion of students in the highest band increasing from 24% to 37% and a reduction in the mid and lower bands. In Reading, Year 9 students at the 140 – 149 achievement band went from 6.6% in 2024 to 27% in 2025.

CRC St Albans is on an exciting journey to support all their students to achieve improved outcomes, armed with a clear plan, whole-school collaboration and evidence-based professional learning in hand.