Our guiding principles

  • Be a data rich environment where analysis of, and reflection on, data is paramount
  • Foster a sense of curiosity and fun
  • Embrace current educational research and thinking
  • Treat students as adult learners operating in a workplace of learning
  • Have a continuous improvement of focus that is open to innovative approaches
  • Contain academic rigour
  • Show commitment to learning experiences beyond the traditional school setting
  • Utilise the Individual Learning Plan to identify and provide purpose, direction and goals for each student
  • Provide ongoing academic assessment and mentoring processes that identify student progress and shape teaching and learning approaches
  • Use technology to enhance learning
  • Ensure applied learning is central to the educational processes
  • Recognise and broaden the different learning styles deployed in the school
  • Be steeped in independent and collaborative work processes
  • Contain essential tasks and student selected options
  • Document policies, procedures, assessment and learning using a consistent format
  • Develop working relationships with community partners and expertise from around the globe