Clarence Valley Anglican School | Grafton New South Wales


Principal's Message

Welcome to our web site! We hope it provides you with the information you are seeking and gives you some insight into the exciting educational environment we are building at CVAS.

Clarence Valley Anglican School was established in 1998 to meet the needs of the community for a high quality, low fee, Anglican School. The school has quickly developed a reputation for it's commitment to educational excellence balanced with Christian formation and Pastoral Care.

Grafton city is situated at the heart of the Clarence Valley and is only 40 minutes drive from the growing beach side communities of Yamba and Illuka.

Our enrolment in 2009 is 315 students commencing in PreKinder through to Year 12. CVAS is a vibrant school with a great spirit! We aim at all times to create an environment where every student is known and cared for as an individual. We offer a broad range of educational opportunities, encouraging each student to strive for their personal best.

I am very proud of the tradition we are creating here at CVAS. A tradition of quality in our learning, teaching and pastoral care. I would be delighted to welcome you to the school and I am confident that you will find CVAS as special a place as we do.

It gives me great pleasure to inform you of the very strong results achieved by our students in the recent School Certificate and Higher School Certificate examinations.  All students achieved results they can be proud of and the results clearly reflected the efforts each student put into preparing for their examinations.

In the School Certificate our students preformed well above the state averages:

English: 67% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 39% across the state.

Mathematics: 33% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 25% across the state.

Science: 50% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 32% across the state.

History: 39% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 23% across the state.

Geography: 50% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 28% across the state.

 Our Year 10 cohort have now developed a very good set of skills from which they will be able to build their Year 11 and 12 studies from, I have no doubt that they will find the transition into their final years of schooling a lot easier as a result of what they have achieved.

In the Higher School Certificate our students also performed well above the state averages – some of the highlights are:

Chemistry: 40% of our class achieved a Band 5 compared to 26% across the state.

English Extension 1: 100% of our class achieved a Band E3 compared to 58% across the state.

General Mathematics: 36% of our class achieved a Band 5 or above compared to 25% across the state.

Industrial Technology: 100% of our class achieved a Band 5 compared to 23% across the state.

Modern History: 67% of our class achieved a Band 5 compared to 32% across the state.

Physics: 100% of our class achieved a Band 5 compared to 25% across the state.

These results would not have been possible without a dedicated and professional group of Teachers and so to all of our Year 10 and 12 teachers thank you for all your hard work over the past twelve months, your personal and often individual support of our students is greatly appreciated by us all.  CVAS continues to develop a culture of expectation and success amongst its student body, thus enabling our students to have choices when they leave our school.

 Also Dux for 2008 Lachlan Davies obtained an excellent UAI of 92.


Mr Gareth D Leechman
MA MEd MACE MACEL
Principal


Clarence Valley Anglican School | Grafton New South Wales