School Goals

Goals

• Build self-esteem for each student
• Develop mutually supportive personal relationships between staff and students
• Provide a learning environment that will foster good relationships between students, teachers and parents
• Provide a broad general education for all students in each year
• Emphasise active participation, pride in performance and success, rather than content coverage
• Enable students to become independent learners
• Ensure students have high-level skills in Information Communication Technology
• Create an atmosphere whereby staff can find fulfilment in, and recognition for, what they are doing
• Provide opportunities for parents to become involved in decision-making about their children's learning
• Provide the opportunity for students to develop their aesthetic capacity in both the expressive and practical arts
• Promote physical fitness
• Promote personal well being

• Inquiring and reflective thinkers, able to reason, question, make decisions and solve complex problems. As reflective thinkers they will be able to make ethical decisions about issues, events and actions.
• Effective communicators, able to create, communicate and convey ideas clearly and confidently, using the full range of symbolic systems. They will interact critically with communications created by others, interpreting linguistic, numerical and graphic information with judgement.
• Self-directed and ethical people, having a positive vision for themselves and their futures, acting with moral autonomy and contributing to constructive futures for themselves and others.
• Responsible citizens, prepared to participate actively in a democratic community, valuing diversity and acting for a just and equitable society.
• World contributors, willing to consider the consequences of scientific and technological innovations, make thoughtful decisions about their application and act to maintain, protect and enhance local and global environments.

Objectives

• Gain mastery of the skills and competencies associated with learning to converse, read, write and calculate as a basis for the development of further skills and competencies
• Develop these basic competencies to the best of their ability

• Acquire and convey information
• Apply logical processes
• Undertake practical tasks both as an individual and as a member of a group
• Make judgements and decisions
• Work creatively

• The ability to act autonomously and responsibly, and to accept responsibility for their actions and decisions
• An awareness of their rights and their social, civic and political responsibilities
• A sense of what is right and wrong
• Habits and attitudes that will enhance their active participation in work and leisure
• The ability to form productive and satisfying relationships and to show care and concern for other people
• An understanding and appreciation of our culture and of cultures different from our own
• The ability to cope effectively with change
• A positive outlook on life