Strategic Goals 2009-2011
Achievement Principles – All students will experience
EXPECTATIONS
High academic achievement, challenging and extending students across the curriculum to seek personal excellence
LEARNING
High application of the essential learning skills, enabling students to become active, confident, creative, innovative learners and thinkers
COHERENCE / CULTURAL DIVERSITY / ENGAGEMENT / TREATY
Equitable opportunities through effective organisational use of personnel and up to date resources to address different learning needs, respect cultural heritages, family/community connections and diversity and to develop skills to cope with life in New Zealand’s multi-cultural communities.
Special Characteristics
LEARNING / TREATY / INCLUSIVENESS / FUTURE
Appropriate class organisational groupings to meet each student’s academic needs
- Broad-banded classes for majority
- Accelerated-learner classes to challenge and extend the Gifted and Talented
- Inquiry based learning classes for those who choose to learn this way
- Extension group teaching for those with particular strengths
- Learning support, focused group/individual teaching for those with greatest needs in numeracy and literacy
- English as a Second Language programmes for students in need of that
- Half classes for practical curriculum areas, Technology, Science, Information Technology, Art, Music.
- Cultural/Sports opportunities
INCLUSIVENESS
High emphasis on pastoral care, including transition time, class placement and counselling support for those in need.
A rich, real, relevant, rigorous curriculum developed by staff with and for students.