A new journey
How do you start a school in the way that you mean to go on? You'd have to argue that creating a learning culture that values a dispositional curriculum as much as an academic one is easier than changing a existing and embedded culture, but where to start? Last week was the first 'official' one of my new job. Over the past few weeks we have been working with the EBOT on the emerging vision of the school. We refined their ideas using a hierarchy chart and post-it notes. We valued the most, ideas such as, a sense of belonging, recognising the uniqueness of all learners, being connected, having motivation and confidence, being part of a community, resilience, creativity and curiosity. From here we started developing our Vision: Connect, Inspire, Soar: Empower our people to be connected, collaborative, community-minded learners inspired to soar to their potential. We have taken inspiration from the kāhu - a bird frequently seen in our area and that our hapu see as c