Strategic Plan


Strategic Plan: 2017-19: Our Strategic Goal for Learning: Every Child Engaged and Empowered in Deep Learning for Success
2017 - Consolidate
Embed St Joseph’s curriculum and pedagogy
Knowing our whakapapa: being a Dominican school
High achievement, future-focused, making a difference, being Catholic
2018 – Platform for growth
Using technology,, design processes, critical thinking and creativity in transformative ways,  to engage with a relevant, active, purposeful curriculum
2019 - growing
Making a difference to our community and world through solving problems that matter
Special Catholic Character
Goal 1 To ensure that our Catholic character leads and enriches all aspects of school life.
Goal 2 Continue to practice and grow high quality religious education
Goal 3 To continue to involve the St Patrick’s Parish community to enrich and support the school
Stewardship – (Board of Trustees) - Empowered for Success
Continue to build Board governance capacity
Support professional growth and innovation.
Review, realign and continue to improve our self-review processes to reflect our emerging understandings and direction derived from our major self review of 2016. and implement Schooldocs system.
Engage with diocese to plan for school property development.
Plan for development of senior playground
Continue to monitor Board performance as a good employer.
Resourcing for transformative practice.
Maintain and develop school buildings and grounds to support diocesan plans for property development.
Continue to build Board governance capacity.
Support professional growth and innovation.
Leadership for equity and excellence – Empowered for Success
Develop senior leadership team capacity
Improve progress and achievement in learning for all children particularly Maori, Pasifika and children with special education needs.
Review and maintain structures at all levels of school to promote high expectations
Student leadership focus.
Te Reo support
Continue to develop senior leadership team capacity to improve progress and achievement in learning for all children particularly Maori, Pasifika and children with special education needs - develop senior leadership team capacity for leading learning.
Maintain and improve structures, procedures, and accountabilities, keeping our school values at the forefront.
Implementing strategic development in innovative practice, whilst maintaining structure and expectations.
Educationally powerful connections and relationships - Empowered and Engaged
Ensure our digital presence meets our communication purposes
Work towards full representation of ethnicities in school decision-making processes.
Investigate literacy learning needs throughout the school and provide parent/student support sessions.
Continue to focus on successful transitions from pre-school, within the school and to high school
Continue to investigate ways of combining forums for dialogue.
Learning which is deeply situated within multicultural Oamaru in the present time as a starting point for developing global perspectives and understanding of our place in time.
Continue to build learning partnerships within the Whitestone Kahui Ako.
Continue to develop transitions between pre-school, school and high school.
Build learning-focused relationships with parents.
Our local parish, cultural and community capital is highly evident within our school curriculum and we engage in learning with a strong sense of purpose.
Responsive curriculum, effective teaching and opportunity to learn – Deep Learning for Success
Revise and update our school curriculum
Promote and track student key competency development.
Develop teacher capacity to support students to evidence their learning.
Develop further understanding of student-based inquiry learning.
Science as a vehicle for the development of literacy and numeracy learning
Rich learning and problem-solving promoted in maths
Investigate and develop assessment, monitoring and reporting practices for formative assessment, student agency and to measure progress
Schoolwide spelling development - consolidating previous pd
Continue to embed St Joseph’s learning progressions and teacher capacity to facilitate students to evidence learning.
Curriculum development led by key competencies.
Investigate transformative practice.
Engagement with real world problem-solving - through inquiry or project-based learning.  Core subjects integrated with student-led inquiry - STEAM (Science Technology, Engineering, Art & Design, Maths) focus in our local environment.
Develop a schoolwide learning progression for science.
Work with the Whitestone Kahui Ako to share best practice for fostering student engagement.
Core subjects strongly connected with learning across the curriculum and continue to build on our understanding of this within the area of social sciences and the arts.
Professional and collective capacity - Every child engaged and empowered in deep learning for success
Embed the pedagogy behind our curriculum – SOLO, student-based inquiry and student “learning to learn” capacity.
Investigate and develop strong pedagogy for transformative digital learning
Update appraisal systems.
Participate in Community of Learning
Provide targeted professional learning for all staff.
Senior and experienced staff encouraged to engage in masters level further education through BOT-funded student grants.
Ongoing internal pd with a focus on transformative innovative practice for high student achievement.
Celebrate the gifts and talents of our staff.
Engage in collaborative practice-development across the Whitestone Kahui Ako with a focus on engagement and smooth transitions.
Senior and experienced staff supported to engage in formal educational study opportunities with a focus on transformative innovative practice for high student achievement particularly in the future-focused STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas.
Less experienced staff strongly supported and developed through purposeful staff development and syndicate structures to promote growth.
Evaluation, inquiry, knowledge-building for improvement and innovation - Every child engaged and empowered in deep learning for success
Engage with up to date research and evidenced-based practice in order to challenge and improve practice.
Through Whitestone Kahui Ako and using external facilitation develop depth in spirals of inquiry to support research and evidence-based practice development.  Appraisal system based on effective teacher inquiry.
Continue to review practice and curriculum against internal evidence-based reflection and research-based indicators of good practice, seeking external guidance as required.



Our Strategic Goal for Learning: Every Child Engaged and Empowered in Deep Learning for Success
2017 - Consolidate
Embed St Joseph’s curriculum and pedagogy
Knowing our whakapapa: being a Dominican school
High achievement, future-focused, making a difference, being Catholic
2018 – Platform for growth
Using technology,, design processes, critical thinking and creativity in transformative ways,  to engage with a relevant, active, purposeful curriculum
2019 - growing
Making a difference to our community and world through solving problems that matter
Special Catholic Character
Goal 1 To ensure that our Catholic character leads and enriches all aspects of school life.
Maintain Catholic Character at  the forefront of policies, plans, curriculum, assessment and professional learning for staff (2017-19) and at the centre of all self-review.
Goal 2 Continue to practice and grow high quality religious education
Address next steps for targeted learners in Religious Education based on assessment information gathered over the past three years (2017)
Use reflection on our completed three-year cycle of using consistent key ideas in RE to plan and develop staff formation, and strategic planning and resources for RE (2017)
Continue to embed the key ideas for RE learning throughout the school and further investigate how we teach and maintain content knowledge from one year to the next and continue to address the needs of learners who only access a portion of our RE curriculum (2017-18)
Significant formation and professional development opportunities offered in Religious Education (all staff are expected and supported to work towards RE diploma) (2017-19)
Goal 3 To continue to involve the St Patrick’s Parish community to enrich and support the school
Action baptism and faith development opportunities for children and their families with parishioners (2017-19)
Continue to focus on growing the parish/school relationship reflecting the Dunedin Diocesan Action Plan (2017-19)
Stewardship – (Board of Trustees) - Empowered for Success
Continue to build Board governance capacity
Support professional growth and innovation.
Review, realign and continue to improve our self-review processes to reflect our emerging understandings and direction derived from our major self review of 2016. and implement Schooldocs system.
Engage with diocese to plan for school property development.
Plan for development of senior playground
Continue to monitor Board performance as a good employer.
Resourcing for transformative practice.
Maintain and develop school buildings and grounds to support diocesan plans for property development.
Leadership for equity and excellence – Empowered for Success
Develop senior leadership team capacity
Improve progress and achievement in learning for all children particularly Maori, Pasifika and children with special education needs.
Review and maintain structures at all levels of school to promote high expectations
Student leadership focus.
Te Reo support
Develop senior leadership team capacity
Develop a strategic plan for transformative practice.
Maintain and improve structures, procedures, and accountabilities, keeping our school values at the forefront.
Implementing strategic development in innovative practice, whilst maintaining structure and expectations.
Educationally powerful connections and relationships - Empowered and Engaged
Ensure our digital presence meets our communication purposes
Work towards full representation of ethnicities in school decision-making processes.
Investigate literacy learning needs throughout the school and provide parent/student support sessions.
Continue to focus on successful transitions from pre-school, within the school and to high school
Investigate ways of combining forums for dialogue.
Learning which is deeply situated within multicultural Oamaru in the present time as a starting point for developing global perspectives and understanding of our place in time
Our local parish, cultural and community capital is highly evident within our school curriculum and we engage in learning with a strong sense of purpose.
Responsive curriculum, effective teaching and opportunity to learn – Deep Learning for Success
Revise and update our school curriculum
Promote and track student key competency development.
Develop teacher capacity to support students to evidence their learning.
Develop further understanding of student-based inquiry learning.
Science as a vehicle for the development of literacy and numeracy learning
Rich learning and problem-solving promoted in maths
Investigate and develop assessment, monitoring and reporting practices for formative assessment, student agency and to measure progress
Schoolwide spelling development - consolidating previous pd
Curriculum development led by key competencies.
Engagement with real world problem-solving
Core subjects integrated with student-led inquiry - science focus
Core subjects strongly connected with learning across the curriculum and continue to build on our understanding of this within the area of social sciences and the arts.
Professional and collective capacity - Every child engaged and empowered in deep learning for success
Embed the pedagogy behind our curriculum – SOLO, student-based inquiry and student “learning to learn” capacity.
Investigate and develop strong pedagogy for transformative digital learning
Update appraisal systems.
Participate in Community of Learning
Provide targeted professional learning for all staff.
Senior and experienced staff supported to engage in formal educational study opportunities with a focus on transformative innovative practice for high student achievement particularly in the future-focused STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas.
Less experienced staff strongly supported and developed through purposeful staff development and syndicate structures to promote growth.
Evaluation, inquiry, knowledge-building for improvement and innovation - Every child engaged and empowered in deep learning for success
Engage with up to date research and evidenced-based practice in order to challenge and improve practice.
Continue to review practice and curriculum against internal evidence-based reflection and research-based indicators of good practice, seeking external guidance as required.








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