GOALS

1. LEARNING - Provide learner-centred programmes that address the needs and aspirations of all students and expand the learning capacity of individuals.

Objectives:

· Implement the new curriculum

· Embed key competencies into learning outcomes across all the learning areas

· Develop appropriate pathways for all students

· Establish cross-curricular links

· Provide real-life contexts for learning

· Identify different learning needs of individuals and groups, and design programmes that address them

· Provide more opportunities for girls to take responsibility for their own learning

· Teach students to understand how they learn and to know themselves as learners

· Use achievement data to track progress and inform planning

· Foster home/school learning partnerships

2. FACILITATING - Attract, develop and retain inspiring teachers who are mentors and facilitate powerful student learning and living.

Objectives:

· Provide professional development to achieve the school’s vision for learning

· Build on the school culture of professional sharing and reflective practice (subject specific and school-wide)

· Develop internal leadership capacity and engage in deliberate succession planning

· Encourage and support staff involvement in co-curricular activities in order to foster relationships beyond the classroom and extend opportunities for mentoring

· Encourage and support teachers to model lifelong learning

3. CONTRIBUTING - Foster the personal, physical, cultural, spiritual and social development of each individual.

Objectives:

· Promote development of the Arts

· Identify and nurture talent

· Mentor and support elite athletes and artists/performers

GOALS

3. CONTRIBUTING - Foster the personal, physical, cultural, spiritual and social development of each individual continued.

Objectives continued:

· Consolidate the sustainability of the sports and arts infrastructure

· Develop programmes for students in sports leadership and training of officials

· Review and enhance leadership training and personal development opportunities for all students

· Engage more students in altruistic service opportunities

· Utilise and celebrate a more diverse range of student talents, strengths and achievement

4. CONNECTING - Engage meaningfully with the wider school community and other local, national and global communities.

Objectives:

· Develop systems that enable effective reciprocal communication with the school community

· Foster closer liaison with all associated groups in the school community to promote a common vision and purpose

· Value input and feedback from the school community

· Rationalise service to our community

· Develop international and cultural connections, promoting tolerance and understanding to encourage global citizenship

· Foster mutually beneficial relationships with local businesses, community and educational groups

· Organise professional events that reflect the ethos of the school

5. ADAPTING - Explore, evaluate and embrace new and existing technologies which allow students and teachers to utilize knowledge, and promote effective learning.

Objectives:

· Develop vision for the role of IT in teaching and learning

· Develop economical solutions to the school’s growing IT needs

· Establish pathways to achieve the desired IT services and outcomes

· Provide technology and staffing to give students and staff the appropriate access and expertise

· Explore the potential of new technologies to provide effective learning opportunities

· Develop use of Dionet as an educational tool

· Provide subject specific training to assist teachers to incorporate IT most effectively into their teaching programmes

GOALS

6. RESOURCING - Effectively develop, maintain and efficiently utilize human, physical and financial resources to support the school’s strategic goals, ensuring long term sustainability and development.

Objectives:

Physical Resources:

· Establish clear policies and procedures related to campus development

· Update and prioritise campus development plan

· Manage building projects effectively and prudently

· Enhance presentation of the school site in order to maximise its unique advantages

· Promote environmental sustainability

Human Resources:

· Evaluate administrative systems and eliminate unnecessary practices

· Provide an efficient and effective infrastructure to ensure maximum support for teaching and learning programmes

· Review Human Resources systems, procedures and documentation

Financial Resources:

· Enhance existing income streams and develop alternative income streams to maximize use of the school’s assets

· Undertake long term financial forecasting and planning

7. NURTURING - Provide a safe, caring and supportive Anglican environment where all members of the community are valued and respected and shaped by the values of the Christian faith.

Objectives:

· Ensure the school’s culture and behaviour management procedures are consistent with the principles of Restorative Practice

· Encourage girls to like and value themselves

· Track and monitor electronic record keeping systems for pastoral care

· Establish Pastoral Care Centre to centralize and enhance pastoral services

· Encourage healthy eating and a more physically active lifestyle

· Develop strategies to raise wellbeing, ambition and achievement of Maori and Pasifika students

· Facilitate closer integration of day and boarding school

· Incorporate spiritual values into classroom content and practice

· Encourage healthy relationships and mutual respect

· Ensure Maori/Pasifika cultures are reflected in the daily life of the school