Goals and strategic improvement strategies 2018-2021
Future Directions
Strategic Intent
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School Ocean Grove School commits to collaboratively grow our Catholic and learning cultures and the wellbeing of all in our school community.
Education in Faith
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Key Improvement Strategies |
| To enhance the Catholic identity of Our Lady Star of the Sea as an engaged, living and flourishing, faith community in the Church and world of today. |
Strengthen teacher capacity both theologically and pedagogically to confidently educate in faith. Continue a dialogical approach to nurturing student’s faith and building community connections as dimensions of all aspects of faith formation, wellbeing and learning. |
Learning and Teaching
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Key Improvement Strategies |
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To provide learning opportunities that challenge, engage and empower all to be confident and successful learners in all environments. |
Build staff capacity to design, implement, embed and reflect on agreed, consistent and effective pedagogy using personalised learning approaches. Develop practices that explicitly build students’ capacity to be fully engaged and have positive learning dispositions. |
Student Wellbeing
Goal |
Key Improvement Strategies |
| To strengthen personal, emotional and social key competencies and capacities of all to enable and support positive relationships and behaviours. | Continue to develop, implement and reflect on whole of school approaches that connect wellbeing, learning, and personal and interpersonal growth within our Catholic context. |
Leadership and Management
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Key Improvement Strategies |
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To grow and sustain a culture that is characterised by clarity of purpose, professional engagement and a focus on high performance and continuous improvement. |
Strengthen a high performance team culture based on CEM Horizons of Hope and Performance and Development frameworks, VIT and AITSL standards.
Further develop leadership dispositions and capabilities and clarity around the nature of Catholic leadership and related roles, supported by consistent practices across the school. |
School Community
Goal |
Key Improvement Strategies |
| To enable our culture of learning partnerships to flourish. | Continue to strengthen all learning opportunities through authentic parent and community engagement and partnerships. |