Mulgrave strategic plan 2016

INSPIRING EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AND LIFE

We are fast approaching the 25th anniversary of Mulgrave’s founding. In 2018, we will celebrate the dreams of our founding families and the community that they built. We are a young school but we are well-defined. Our students and our alumni are passionate, lifelong learners and principled stewards of our future. Our teachers are dedicated educators who keep one goal at the heart of all they do: to inspire excellence - the continuous pursuit of personal best in education and life - in each of their students. Our parents are the lifeblood of our multicultural community. Their unwavering support and dedication to our school’s values is a force that keeps our spirits high and our vision alive. This triumvirate - students, teachers, parents

- sits as our foundation and is the key to our success, for we work together always to make Mulgrave everything that we can be.

As we look ahead to the next few years the imperative to improve and develop our education is even greater than before.

We will enhance our focus on preparing our students in and across all divisions of the school, from the earliest age, with the values, skills and personal qualities to thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive international world. We will continue to be a values-based school, maintain our high expectations and standards, avoid complacency, be open to continuous feedback, be ambitious and forward-looking and be innovative and nimble enough to embrace new

ideas from across the world. Our unique education will continue to be based on the International Baccalaureate Programmes, the best academic programmes in the world, and we will remain a three-class-per-grade school.

We will continue to focus on ensuring that our students achieve university placements of their choice and are successful in life both in and beyond their post-secondary experiences.

As we strive to be an outstanding international school, Mulgrave will continue to offer a broad, holistic education with a strong academic emphasis, outstanding co-curricular opportunities and a focus on the values, personal qualities, and skills that will allow our students to follow their

passions and make a positive difference in the world.

Our strategic plan is the result of extensive consultation with students, teachers and parents. We are grateful for your ideas and input, and we look forward to working with you to take a Mulgrave education to the next level.

The following pages provide you with a high-level overview of the strategic plan goals, which we will work on in every division of the school. We look forward to explaining how these goals will impact your child and will benefit the Mulgrave community.

John Wray, Head of School Harry Wierenga, Chair of the Mulgrave Board of Directors

MAKING A MULGRAVE EDUCATION MORE

Personalisation of learning, support, curriculum Making education more personalised so that all students can achieve their potential academically and create a range of university options.

GOAL 1

We will continue to strive to make the learning process more personalised for every student to allow them to achieve their personal best in every area of the academic curriculum.

GOAL 2

We will further improve the range of support services available to students to help them learn and grow into unique, confident and successful young men and women.

GOAL 3

Within our enriched IB framework, we will further increase the range of curriculum and study choices available to students, especially in new and modern subject areas.

SELECTED ACTIONS We will focus teachers’ professional development on proven, high-leverage strategies to improve learning.

We will employ additional counsellors, learning support teachers, and specialist teachers to support key curriculum areas.

We will make inquiry in the PYP programme more student-centred and improve curriculum choices in the MYP elective programme and at DP level.

Enriched with 21st Century skills Making education more enriched with 21st Century skills so that all students can systematically develop these key life skills for the future that will differentiate them from other academic high flyers.

GOAL 1

GOAL 2

We will further develop our focus on ensuring that every student systematically develops a set of effective life skills and personal characteristics alongside their academic success.

We will ensure that our students increasingly develop important and high-level, modern life skills for the future that will give them a competitive edge.

Selected Actions We will strengthen our character education, Pre-K to Grade 12, and ensure all students reach their potential in high-level communication, self-management, and social/emotional skills.

We will focus on ensuring all students further develop their creativity, entrepreneurial, computational and design thinking, and innovation skills.

MAKING A MULGRAVE EDUCATION MORE

MAKING A MULGRAVE EDUCATION MORE

Applied to authentic real world contexts Making education more applied to real-world contexts so that all students are able to apply their skills authentically and further develop an understanding of concepts and ideas in real-world settings.

GOAL 1 We will ensure that our students have increased exposure to places and people outside of the immediate school setting so that they can understand the real-world contexts for their learning.

GOAL 2 We will form more relationships with external organisations to enrich our students’ education in an applied way.

Selected Actions We will build strong relationships with local university departments and businesses to enhance student experience.

We will strongly support and encourage authentic student action as part of the inquiry process.

Extended through enhanced co-curricular opportunities Making education more extended through enhanced co-curricular opportunities so that all students can follow their interests and passions, further develop their skills, and establish lifelong interests and commitments.

GOAL 1

We will further extend the range of co-curricular opportunities in all divisions of the school, ensuring that our provision evolves according to student need and interest.

GOAL 2

We will strive to take provision in Athletics, Performing Arts, Outdoor Education, Service and Debating/Public Speaking to a new level. We will focus on excellence and on ensuring that all co-curricular experiences provide opportunities for deep learning.

Selected Actions We will engage another Outdoor Education specialist to enhance the Junior School experience.

We will employ specialist coaches to support enhanced student and team performance.

MAKING A MULGRAVE EDUCATION MORE

MAKING A MULGRAVE EDUCATION MORE

Making education more international so that all students can live and work happily and successfully in a range of cultures and countries.

GOAL 1 We will ensure all students systematically develop the intercultural skills, attitudes and values to be true global citizens. This will include further developing our students’ understanding of cultures, including our own First Nations, and continuing to improve language learning.

GOAL 2 We will extend the range of international and service learning opportunities for our students.

Selected Actions We will develop an effective platform for all students to record and reflect on their growth as global citizens as a result of their experiences in and outside of school.

We will further develop our students’ understanding and appreciation of a range of global cultures including First Nations peoples.

Inspiring excellence through our COMMUNITY TISH JOLLEY

Our community is vibrant and inspiring because we share a common vision that encourages personalisation, innovation, and life-long learning.

PIEANN LEE

Our community is strong because we celebrate the diversity of our students and our families.

LIBBY SOPER

Our community is supportive because teachers, students and parents work closely together for the good of all.

CLAUDE LEDUC

In the future, a Mulgrave education will become even more accessible to students of different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

MARKTHALER FAMILY

Our community is interesting because we learn from each other all the time.

JACK DECOOMAN Our community is encouraging because they support students’ interests and passions.

AMY YUEN

GOVIER FAMILY

Our community is close because the staff, students and parents are engaged and motivated, resulting in a tight community with common goals.

RICHARD KELEHER

In the next five years at Mulgrave, I am looking forward to seeing students develop their intercultural and language skills.

ZSU ZSU STRAUB

In the future, a Mulgrave education will become more individualised.

Our community is integrated because we collaborate to learn, and are encouraged to empower ourselves through creativity, knowledge and service.

MELISSA MOORE

NATASSJA BY

Our community is our foundation because they have built Mulgrave to be a supportive and open learning environment.

Our community is passionate and creative.

Our teachers, families and students are constantly growing together.

MARK PULFER

MERIDY MEIKLE

In the next five years at Mulgrave, I am looking forward to students taking genuine charge of their own learning.

Our community is unique because we value individuality in an inclusive environment.

THE WORL WAIT

LD IS TING.

WE ARE AMBITIOUS FOR OUR STUDENTS.

MAKING THE STRATEGIC PLAN HAPPEN

We are excited about these ambitious plans to take a Mulgrave education to a new level. As we work to achieve our goals we will be: • Focussed on further developing the already high-level skills of our teachers through increased investment in their training, collaboration and improved feedback processes.

• Further developing the skills of our senior- and middle-level leaders who will provide inspiration and guidance at a detailed level.

• Employing new staff to enhance our current provision and to introduce new courses and support services.

• Continuing to review and learn from worldwide best practice and to evaluate and innovate through the Mulgrave Centre for Innovation.

• Further improving the resources and equipment available to teachers.

• Further improving our specialist facilities in line with our campus plan to support the new and improved education provision in the strategic plan.

• Further engaging our students and our community in supporting our goals and in providing feedback.

• Ensuring that we have the financial basis to make operational and capital investments and support bursaries and scholarships. **For further details, please access our Strategic Plan video via the QR code on the back page.

MULGRAVE SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLAN VIDEO

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