TUESDAY 16th August 2011On Friday ??? Sunday 26th ??? 28th August 2011 the Strategic Planning Coordination Committee meets to finalise the school???s strategic plan for 2012-2020. Within a very short timescale (April ??? August) we have tried to make this...
Mission Statement, Desired Student Objectives.. and then the most critical things we need to do over the next eight years to achieve those outcomes. Here are the seven Strategic Objectives we are working on.(Please note that the wording and conten...
The next part of the plan we are working on involves reviewing the Desired Student Outcomes. We have had a fairly short list for the last few years, and it seemed clear that they were neither comprehensive enough to base our curriculum planning on...
I???ve been reading the comments attached to the recent survey on the mission statement. Generally people liked what we did (as you will see from the analysis in the previous post), but the comments, both positive and negative, were very interesting...
These slides contain the analysis of the responses we received. There were lots of interesting comments, some positive, some negative, but all worth hearing, and all collected into a file for further reference. Overall, most people liked the missi...
Thanks for visiting this post. Apologies to the 25 of you who have already come here and found nothing ??? we???ll catch up as quickly as we can.BackgroundWoodstock has, I???m sure, always been looking to the future. Many who read this blog will b...
Every week Woodstock Principal Dr Jonathan Long shares thoughts with the staff community in the weekly bulletin publication. Recently he focused on the theme of "The Impelling Principle in Education", based on the work of educational visionary and philosopher Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound movement and Round Square, which Woodstock...
Formative, life-changing and transformational – that’s how Woodstock alumni frequently describe the impact of a Woodstock education. C.K. Chesterton was right when he said that the most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject, and it does not...
