Goals
Strategic Goals
- Catholic Character: To create opportunities for personal encounter with Christ
- Culture: To care for, acknowledge and nurture our diverse community of learners
- Curriculum: To inspire our students to take ownership and responsibility of their learning
- Community: To foster a connected community through open communication and regular interaction
- Care and Well-being: To strengthen spiritual, physical, social and emotional well-being (hauora) of students, staff and community
Special Catholic Character Goals
- To develop in each child a knowledge, understanding and respect for the Catholic faith and a love of Jesus.
- Pastoral care is fostered amongst children and the wider school and Parish community.
- To live our Catholic faith.
- To be other centered, not self-centered.
- To know about the Josephite Charism through St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and how this can positively impact on our daily actions.
Achievement Goals
- To embed and sustain effective teaching practices so that each child will attain and exceed targets across the curriculum.
- To have in place effective data collection, analysis and measurement systems to accurately monitor performance against targets.
- In conjunction with our core curriculum, provide resources and teaching programmes that encompass gifted and talented, sports, special needs, cultural and religious education.
- To recruit, develop and retain the highest quality personnel both teaching and support.
Environmental Goals
- To create, sustain and develop an environment, both physical and emotional, that is conducive to learning.
- To prepare children for their next stage of learning in an environment that encourages high standards of achievement and a love of learning.
- An environment where everyone in our School community feels safe and is aware of their rights and responsibilities.
- To continually move forward, through innovation, creativity and endeavour.



