Developing our Brand

The last twelve months have been a roller coaster of learning as our school has been coming together to reconfirm what our brand is. 

Staff have been encouraged to dream again and give life to a connected and engaging curriculum. We've worked hard at identifying the principles of our learning vision that is then examined by some key practices. 

We've soaked in this to then better reflect what our brand should be that examples this externally. We were fortunate to have a day with Craig from School Branding Matters who we immersed in our place around our classrooms and then with the leadership team before coming together with him as a whole staff. Let's just say that he left with some passion ringing in his ears!

The Vision revisioned...

Back in November last year we started the process of redefining our vision - articulating why we do what we do and how that is supported by our principles of action and what that then looks like in practice. Since we started this it's been like a multi laned highway of development as we worked to begin the development of our school wide focuses alongside it. These were: 

- Does authentic teacher collaboration look like in practice for our place? 

- What is the relationship between teacher practice and professional practice in a professional team

- Developing a shared understanding of digital tool integration into our learning! 

Wow! All big, and key, parts of a morphing 'why' and have caused us to ask: "What do you believe about how kids learn most powerfully and deeply in their lives? 

And then the question that follows (for both each individual and as a whole school team) is does our practice in our classrooms with kids honour those identified beliefs? 

Challenging, exciting, huge and ongoing...