Our Vision : To develop confident life-long learners within the Catholic Faith
OUR PROGRAMMES
Programmes
Learning how to learn establishes essential skills for living and working.
Programmes based on outcomes require a change from traditional teaching approaches to curriculum development, shifting from objectives derived from content to objectives based on desired changes in the learner – Inquiry Learning.
Our goal is to equip the learner (student) with the skills to enable them to be successful now and in their life. This will enable our students to:
- Take responsibility for their own learning
- Work and learn successfully alongside others
- Interact successfully with others
- Find their identity – socially, physically, academically, emotionally and spiritually
Educational Experiences
Our school programmes will reflect current educational thinking and support our Mission Statement, Vision and Special Character. We will provide opportunities for:
- Problem solving
- Co-operative learning
- The development of the Key competencies
- Risk taking
- The support that it is okay to be wrong and that often such experiences provide valuable learning outcomes
- The development of strategies to work through and resolve conflict, stress and failure
- Variety
- Acknowledge and promote the understanding of the many cultures in our school community
- Self evaluation and future goal setting
- Learning through ICT – Information Communication Technology
Learning
We believe education is an active process with children participating in it rather than receiving it. We recognise that successful learning is stimulated by:
- Quality teaching
- Variety in learning programmes
- Students feeling supported in their learning
- Fun
- The physical environment
- Opportunities – camps, EOTC, Life Education, cultural groups, visiting groups, extra-curricular activities
- Community involvement
- The use of outside agencies
- Children being involved in 3-way conferences and goal setting, giving them ownership of their learning
- Providing challenges at individual learning level
Examples of programmes that support learning and teaching:
- Special Character - sponsor a World Vision child, support from NZ - Caritas
- Innovative Learning Environment
- EnviroSchool projects
- PB4L - Positive Behaviour for Learning initiative
- Cultural group - performs regularly
- Digi kids
- Peer mediators
- Library monitor
- Enrichment programmes supported by Wairarapa REAP
- Reading Recovery
- A large range of sporting opportunities
- Music lessons