Bluestone School Strategic Vision
We want Bluestone students to
- Be confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners
- Know and demonstrate that excellence and success are a shared responsibility, and are expected, valued and celebrated
- Express values in everyday actions and interactions
- Be creative, energetic and enterprising
We want our learners to know
- How to read, write and numerate
- How to find, interpret and use information
- What, why, and how they are learning and to know where and what the target is
- How to develop strategies for learning
- How to treat and respect others and the world around them
- Their place in the world by putting New Zealand, Timaru, Bluestone into context
- When to lead and when to follow, how to make decisions and when to take risks
- To take ideas and develop them and apply them to other contexts
- To be able to communicate effectively in the modern world with a wide range of people, and in a range of situations.
We will expect
(3-5 years)
- Striving to reach or exceed National Standards in numeracy and literacy
- Physical and well being activities and cultural activities that involve all students, and aim for excellence
- Programmes that make a positive shift in the whole school culture, reflecting in actions and interactions both in school, and in the community
- Experiences and resources that allow all students to be creative and effective communicators and users of information on a personal, local and global scale
- Professional development for all staff and action research by staff that encourages creativity and, approaches and practices that best meet student needs
- Responsibility for learning being shared by students, parents, the school and community.
To reach these expectations we will
(Annual targets and action plans)
Considering all the time What difference will this make to kids and learning?
These are added each year and show how all the above will be achieved.
