School Charter

The Woodhill School 2010 Charter is for 1 year only - The BOT and Principal recognise the implications of:

• trustees elections,
• a new Principal,
• important ERO recommendations,
• previous incomplete and unmonitored goals
• and staff overload

as being contributing factors to this decision. With so many pressing maters and recommendations the BOT feel that it is extremely important to compile a concise, meaningful and workable Charter document. To this end they are confident that this document clearly reflects their intentions for 2010 and addresses key areas outlined by ERO in 2009. A new longer term charter will be developed in term 4 of 2010 as per self review schedule.

Kit Murray
Principal

 

 

Our Core Beliefs

Our mission statement is driven by six core beliefs:

1. Staff students and BOT are committed to obtaining high expectations of themselves and each other.
2. Tikanga and Te Reo Maori are fundamental to the bi-cultural foundations of Woodhill School and Aotearoa.
3. We embrace and celebrate all aspects of the individual.
4. Within a supported environment - participation, development and contribution is provided and expected of all staff and students.
5. We believe Key Competencies are fundamental to life long learning.
6. We believe literacy and numeracy are fundamental to the education process.

Mission Statement

To Grow, To Care, To Learn...

Woodhill School will provide a positive and safe learning environment that will stimulate and challenge children to be intrinsically motivated.
To this end students will be proactive in taking charge of their emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well being.

Our Vision

We embrace the vision outlined in the New Zealand Curriculum. We want our pupils to be:

• Confident - positive in their own identity motivated and reliable - resourceful - enterprising and entrepreneurial - resilient
• Connected - able to relate well to others - effective users of communication tools - connected to the land and environment - members of communities - international citizens
• Actively Involved - participants in a range of life contexts - contributors to the wellbeing of New Zealand (Social, cultural, economical, and environmental) 
• Lifelong Learners - literate and numerate - critical and creative thinkers - active seekers, users, and creators of knowledge - informed decision makers.
  

Our Values

Values are deeply held beliefs about what is important or desirable. They are expressed by the ways that people think, feel and act. Our framework has been designed in unison with our ‘Mission Statement' and provides us with an initiative whereby we can model, motivate, monitor and measure.

 

Key Competencies

Our 'Key Competencies' framework
Managing Self	ICT	Participating and Contributing	Thinking	Relating to Others
- Ownership - Proactive - Pride	- Skills - Creativity	- Whanau - School - Local community - Wider community	- Clever questions - Tools - clarity of direction/reflection - Creativity	- Negotiating - Respect - Communication - Sharing - Virtues

 

 

Strategic Goals

 

Educational/Curriculum Goals - SEG's

1. To improve student achievement in literacy
2. To improve student achievement in Numeracy
3. To develop the Key Competencies using a school wide framework
4. To develop the Inquiry learning process within the adopted framework of Plan/Do/Review
5. To develop students confidence and skill set within ‘Performing Arts'
6. To identify and develop students with special abilities

 

Local/Cultural Goals - SLG's

1. Integrate and imbedded the notion of EFS (education for sustainability into our school
2. Develop the awareness, appreciation and understanding of local history, tikanga, and traditions
3. Develop student driven strategies and skills for behaviour management