STRATEGY ON A PAGE (Updated March 2018): Our 3 year strategy 2018-2020 Vision: We prepare our students for their present and our school for its future Our values: PERSIST Our Belief: We have a moral contract with families to give every student the opportunity to do his or her best. We are disposed to be creative and innovative in providing the right opportunities for each student. Our Overall Purpose (Mission): To increase learning expectations, capacity & achievement for students, staff, the school and the community through new ways of knowing, doing and being. Ambition (Key Performance Measures): Over the next 3 years we will achieve: 1. A significant shift in learning trajectories and evidence of progress for all students, targeted groups of students and individuals as measured by: a. b. c. d.
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A deep understanding and demonstration of new student centred ways of knowing, doing and being with: a. b. c.
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Average growth in academic performance (to within one mark) of state average Growth and progress data (learning trajectories) to within 1 standard deviation of state average 40% of all students achieving Band 4+ in external tests and 50% of all students achieving above the average GPA of 3.25 (grade average) on internal academic reports and ROSA.
100% of students have a My Learning Hub portfolio in which they have articulated their strengths, their skills and capabilities, their goals and their own personalised learning journey. 60% students demonstrating each of the ACARA/NESA capability benchmarks by the end of Year 9 60% of students demonstrating each of the RHHS signature disposition benchmarks by the time they transition from the school to work or further study in Years 10, 11 and 12.
Positive changes in benchmark evidence of school culture, adaptability, innovation and creativity a. b.
Our purposes, people, products, practices, programs and projects will be more imaginative, inquisitive, disciplined, persistent and collaborative measured against the 2017 benchmarks.. We will continue to be rated as “excelling� in 13 of the 14 School Excellence Framework (Version 2) domains.
SD1 Signature platforms and pedagogies: Building on the successful implementation of a capability driven curriculum we will initiate and deliver new ways of knowing, doing and being that create innovative subject based universal, targeted and intensive teaching and learning platforms and programs and increase student learning trajectories. 1.1 Literacy – reading 1.2 Rigorous HSC 1.3 Subject based pedagogies 1.4 Capability Driven Assessment SD2 Expansive learning: Building on the successful personalised learning strategy we will create opportunities for all students to become educated adults, prepared for life at and beyond school with the capacity to demonstrate and articulate their strengths, their own learning and their dispositions using new ways of knowing, doing and being. 2.1 Student Pathways 2.2 Student Agency 2.3 Entrepreneurial learning 2.4 Connecting to Country, Culture and Curriculum SD3 Adaptability and Creativity: Building on our values and our recognised disposition to innovation and creativity we will respond to emerging challenge and change by committing to sustaining an innovative and successful school culture that has the capacity to identify, design and provide evidence for new and adaptive ways of knowing, doing and being. 3.1 Evidence informed culture and practice (OBA, feedback and evaluative thinking) 3.2 Strategic Partnering 3.3 Adaptive Leadership and Expertise 3.4 Community Engagement