1. St Joseph’s Catholic School Orakei
Parent information session
4th September 2012

2. Welcome Introductions Purpose: School strategy/Charter review
Recap Board role
Context: 21st century education
Recap school charter
Strategic goals – progress and priorities
The future …
Roll growth, ICT, modern learning environments
Questions and discussion

3. Timeline and process Jan10 Jan11 Jan12 Jan13 Jan14 Jan15
Current Board April 2010 – Mar 2013
New Board
Charter consultation – like/keep/add
Current Charter (3 years but revised annually)
Curriculum/annual planning
New charter planning
Progress check

4. The Board Tarati Blair-Hunt Duncan McKenzie Paul O’Leary
Sharon Sweeney-Lauder
John Williams
The Board
Governance
Board of Trustees, comprising:
5 parent representatives
4 Bishop’s representatives
1 Staff representative
The Principal
Father Tony Dunn
David Homan
Kate O’Connor
Vacancy
Sue Bennett
employs
reports to
The Principal
Kathryn Hira
Kathryn Hira /
Catherine Ryan
Management
Is the leader of the School and staff
Staff, including staff with leadership responsibilities in curriculum areas, and Catholic Special Character (DRS)

5. Governance <-> Management
The “What” – designing the future
The “Ends” – the outcomes we want to achieve
The “Policies” – statements of what we expect
Management:
The “How” – design how we get there
The “Means” – the strategies used to achieve the ends
The “Procedures” – how to meet the expectations
“Strategy”
“Operations”

6. 21st Century Education
The 20th century time of rapid change. Change in the 21st century will be exponential
What does 21st century learning and teaching look like, so that our students are brought to fullness of life and our schools are schools of excellence?
As BOT members what is your vision and your school’s vision for 21st century teaching and learning?

7. YouTube What is 21st Century Education? EF Smithsonian

8. Key thoughts:
Education outcomes – less about “facts” and more about “techniques”
Problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, community, initiative, independent
Technological literacy, learn how to learn - for life!
Teachers – make the classroom as dynamic as the world around us
Facilitators, catalysts, innovative
Pedagogy – data to “right fit” learning which is more individualised or small group
Teach students NOT subjects or the curriculum

9. Changes/implications …
Passion for the right answer  Passion for asking new questions
Teaching  Learning
Memorization  Evaluating content, sorting through it, critically examining it
Routine tasks  Rich Tasks
For Boards – teacher generations, PLD, staffing per class, technology in learning

10. Responsibility to nurture in 21st Century Learners:
As Catholic Schools
Responsibility to nurture in 21st Century Learners:
A sense of the sacred - Respect for the sacredness of each individual and for all creation
The importance of ethics and moral in their thinking and problem solving
The importance of the communal nature of the Catholic Church

11. + Catholic Special Character
The NZ Framework
The Education Act 1989
The National Education Guidelines
National Education Goals
(NEGs)
Foundation curriculum policy statements
National curriculum statements
National Standards
National Admin Guidelines (NAGs)
+ Catholic Special Character
Our School Charter

12. St Joseph’s School Charter
Charter establishes the mission, aims, objectives, directions, and targets of the Board – giving effect to national education guidelines and Board priorities.
Charter is reviewed every year and a major review of the vision and strategic section every years.
The “big picture” foundation strategic document to support / enable effective student learning
High level priorities – NOT exclusive/exhaustive
Accolade: Ministry has used our Charter as an example of good practice

13. St Joseph’s Charter, pg 2
Specific areas and annual plans, including targets (10+ pages) …

14. Strategic goal progress (1, 2)
To maintain, develop and promote the Catholic Special Character by weaving the beliefs, traditions and teachings of the Catholic faith through all dimensions of our school life
CSC review 2012 extremely positive (see website)
Develop + implement St Joseph’s School Curriculum based on the needs of our students and reflects the intentions of the revised New Zealand Curriculum (2007) incorporating the National Standards
ERO 2012 – The StJO curriculum is closely aligned to the principles and key competencies of the NZ curriculum; it effectively promotes and supports student learning

15. Strategic goal progress (3)
To further develop, implement, monitor and review programmes and practices that strengthen literacy and numeracy skills at ALL levels of the school with attention to Maori and Pasifika students
All children assessed against National Stndrds expectations (after “n” years for 1st 3 years, then at ends of years 4-6)
Board receives reports through the year, either tool/ assessment specific or informed teacher judgement
Visibility of 3 areas: Numeracy, Reading, Writing; information broken down by year group, gender, ethnicity
Focus expected to be on lifting “under-achievers” but Board concerned to ensure all children progress/achieve so 1 target group a year aimed at moving “AT” to “ABOVE”

16. NatStd – numeracy – end 2011
2010 data at end of year, not after anniversaries
+15 new entrants not yet at anniversary
Concern about the inconsistency of implementation, lack of moderation and variability in coming to OTJs using the Standards

17. NatStd – reading – end 2011
2010 data at end of year, not after anniversaries
+15 new entrants not yet at anniversary
2010 only “below” not separated
Concern about the inconsistency of implementation, lack of moderation and variability in coming to OTJs using Standards

18. NatStd – writing – end 2011
2010 data at end of year, not after anniversaries
+15 new entrants not yet at anniversary
2010 only “below” not separated
Concern about the inconsistency of implementation, lack of moderation and variability in coming to OTJs using Standards

19. National standards – so far …
Teachers undertaken PLD, identify strategies, implement, evaluate success; then recalibrate in cycle of informed continuous improvement
Reports to the Board are accurate, well researched, analytical and forward-looking
Board is extremely pleased with the focus of all staff on student progress and achievement
Some very beneficial lessons learned
PLD will continue to benefit all children
Pleasing progress and a real credit to the focus of the staff

20. Strategic goal progress (4)
To improve outcomes for Maori students through focusing on the foundations for successful learning (Guided by Ka Hikitia – Managing for success) with a strong emphasis on Te Reo and Tikanga Maori
A National and Catholic education priority
Proven successful approach weaving together elements important to our community (eg Catholic, Maori, charism, other cultures) with the general NZ education framework (curriculum, principles, etc) to advance all students, with attention to aspirations and success of each individual
ERO 2012: The school has some good practices in place to promote educational success and benefit all children, including Maori

21. Strategic goal progress (5)
To develop a culture of learning where ICT is naturally integrated into the teaching and learning process so that all students are confident and effective users of ICT
Building infrastructure to support this
New admin block will allow proper foundations for wider use and reliability of technology
Teacher PLD in how to take advantage of technology in learning
Some progress: i-Pads, Mimios, wireless, wikis etc …
BUT a lot more is possible (and necessary)

22. Where to now … ?? New Board April 2013
Comprehensive Charter review late 2013
Roll growth
ICT – see previous slide, and …
Modern learning environments

23. STJO Growth context - School-age population growth, Auckland

24. Roll growth – 10 year plan:
St Joseph’s has:
Capacity to meet growing demand
Stability and strength to support growth
Significant benefits to gain, with manageable risks
A need for improved infrastructure
Solution – a 10 year plan to:
Invest in school infrastructure – as pre-requisite to our ability to grow
Manage measured and organic roll growth to a maximum of 175
Build on our recent successes

25. Capacity to meet demand:
SUPPLY
Per student, St Joseph’s has the MOST available land and the LEAST building space; we also have the LOWEST building:site coverage ratio 3 4 * * 10 * 8 * 9 10 17 15
PMIS for property data
July 2011 roll returns

26. SCHOOL IN GOOD SHAPE/ HEART
Relatively low numbers in senior school will leave and be replaced by higher numbers in junior school 15 13 17 16 24 20

27. Modern Learning Environments
Enable teachers to
Work co operatively and across disciplines
Work anywhere within a learning space or across a range of spaces
Show learning is transparent
Be accessible to their students when not teaching in their learning space
Still have spaces for specialist activities but these may be different
Enable students to
Learn in a variety of ways, independently, in small groups, in large groups, with their peers
Work outside of the learning space
Learn anywhere anytime
Work in an ICT rich environment

28. Modern Learning Environments
Buildings will have a minimum of load bearing walls to allow for easy reconfiguration
Learning spaces will
Be a variety of sizes
Enable flexible layouts with different furniture
Have access to breakout areas
Have internal glazing and movable walls
Have access to outdoor learning and social areas
Have high quality internal environments for acoustics, lighting, ventilation, heating
ICT access for anytime anywhere learning
Specialist facilities will enable more flexible use of these spaces

32. Conclusions Good progress with current strategic plan
“Continue to work ons” in all areas – especially ICT
Building foundations for an exciting next decade
Big challenges – property, pedagogy, priorities
Questions and discussion