Last weekend the SPCC met for two days to review the material we have developed and to write the plan. For your encouragement, we went in detail through two of the ???Countdown??? question responses, where we were looking at objectives from scratch, a...
1. How can the school benefit from its 4000 alumni all around the world? What can they do to help the next generations of students?2. How important are our Christian roots, and how should they affect our school life?...
How do we build a sense of community at Woodstock? What kind of things undermine the community, and how should we deal with them?...
1. What are the three or four extra-curricular or cross-curricular activities we should be promoting at Woodstock?2. In particular, how can we enhance students??? experience of the Himalayan environment?...
1. What level and range of academic learning should students have when they graduate from Woodstock?2. Should we continue to focus on the AP programme, or should we consider alternatives?3. How can the Junior School programme better prepare studen...
What can Woodstock School do to improve in the following two areas: 1. Vision: recognizing, affirming and communicating what is special about Woodstock and its goals 2. Leadership: ensuring that the Board and Administration move the school in the ...
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...
