Sydney Road Community School is a small secondary school (less than 100 students) located in Brunswick. The school has 17.6 equivalent fulltime staff; one Principal, 10 teachers and 6.6 Educational Support staff. We offer a comprehensive curriculum including VCE, VET and VCAL. Our students have a wide range of backgrounds, abilities and aspirations. We are committed to providing a broad and challenging education that actively involves all students and that treats each student as an individual with individual strengths and challenges. The school functions as a Neighbourhood School and as part of our local community. Our curriculum and assessment structure provides the opportunity for all students to have a successful school experience if they work hard. We find it much more conducive to student wellbeing, connectedness and attendance if we treat each child individually in terms of progress, so did not rank students publically on the VELS scale. We do collect student performance data using On-Demand Adaptive Testing and measure student progress using a scale that clearly links attendance and effort with success. We have a strong emphasis on The Arts in general and Music Performance and Technology in particular. We are an Apple school and ICT is well embedded in all of our curriculum areas