We have created our vision

After another very focussed staff meeting, we have developed our vision.
We reviewed our key skills that we think are important to our children and then broke most of them down to further detail and recorded the key elements:
Confidence
To be individuals
To make mistakes and learn from them
To express ideas and opinions
To have an acceptance of mistakes
Thinking Tools
Making connections and seeing relationships
Organisation of tools and strategies
Taking ideas and thinking to the next level
Digital Literacies
To be able to gather and communicate in the future
Need to know how to cope with change
Use technology as a tool for and to enhance learning
Creativity
Lead interesting lives – more excitement, colourful experiences
Able to be individuals and different
To promote abilities and experiences
To have active, thinking minds
To brighten own and others lives
To be able to think beyond the square and experiment (risk takers)
Numeracy and Literacy
The foundations of learning
Flexibility
To be able to adapt to and cope with change
Leadership
Build skills and attitudes
Working with and relating to others
Setting goals and having aspirations
Teamwork
Cooperation and compromise
Be responsible for a task within a group
Feeling of belonging and caring – empathy and compassion
Able to manage self to get to a group goal
Global awareness and citizenship
Self Management
Meeting deadlines with effective time management
Challenging oneself
Organisation

It was important for the staff to ‘own’ our vision. We challenged ideas, reinforced belief, understood the foundations of our vision, together we came to a common vision that will underpin our curriculum development and the learning opportunities that we will provide at our school.
“ At Oroua Downs School our students will be responsible, creative and active thinkers that have the skills to confidently succeed in and adapt with an ever changing world.”