Transcript St Augustine’s & St Bernard’s Catholic Schools

2011 - 2016
Building a New Vision for
St Michael’s
Vision
St Michael’s will:
 Create the Buckinghamshire Centre for Catholic Education
 Have outstanding relationships with all stakeholders
 Be widely known for raising academic standards and achievement
 Ensure best value and financial stability
 Our ethos will ensure support for the emotional, intellectual and
spiritual growth
in the whole child
 Provide progressive pathways for both learners and teachers
Create the Buckinghamshire Centre for Catholic Education
 We will provide a highly respected and sought after education for Roman Catholic and,
other Christian children. It will be the school of choice for all Christian
families in High Wycombe and surrounding areas.
 We will be the central hub of the Catholic community in High Wycombe
and be capable of developing into a single integrated place of worship.
 We will play a pivotal role in strengthening and sustaining the Bucks
Catholic School Partnership.
 We will look to develop logical partnerships within the BCSP.
 We will support Catholic education and the development of Catholic educators through
links with St Mary’s University College.
Have outstanding relationships with all stakeholders
 Our pupils and staff will engage closely with the local community to further the
development of the school and its pupils and to ensure the contribution we
make is relevant to a changing wider community.
 We will continue to encourage positive relations with parents to enable a constructive
dialogue ensuring we are all working to develop the full potential of all
children.
 Community cohesion will be enhanced by encouraging local groups and
organisations to use the facilities for sports, recreation, drama, as well as a full range of
youth activities and adult education.
 We will receive national recognition for the work we do to promote community
cohesion.
Be known for raising academic standards and achievement
 Through strong and inspirational leadership at all levels our children will be supported
throughout their journey and we will ensure the best possible outcomes for
them by providing a genuinely personalised, progressive and supported educational
experience.
 Through the development of links with our Catholic feeder schools cross phase
education will strengthen the quality and range of our offer and
increase opportunities for all children and teachers.
 The school will remain relatively small, maintaining an important and
unique characteristic of this school community.
Ensure best value and financial stability
 We will look to aggregate resources and remove duplication and
overlapping services giving financial benefit to Catholic schools in Buckinghamshire.
 We will negotiate better terms for contracts from our suppliers and service
providers.
Our ethos will ensure support for the emotional, intellectual and
spiritual growth in the whole child
 We will work to be better able to identify pupils’ strengths and
support their progress and development with greater focus.
 We will develop more stimulating extra curricula and extended
services to increase engagement and inspire our children.
 We will continually look to extend opportunities for all pupils.
Provide progressive pathways for both learners and teachers
 We will provide the opportunity for children’s progression to be more
clearly signposted as they develop.
 We will enable greater levels of progression into higher education
through strong and tangible links with partner institutions.
 We will enable partnerships that support staff in developing their careers
from initial teacher training, to in service training and through to senior leadership.
 We will create opportunities, perhaps through specialist skills, that
will resonate and engage with our students and support the development of creativity,
science & technology and sport.
 We will reduce the barriers to learning across all key stages.
 We will continue to build tangible links with the business community and provide
our pupils with skills for work in the 21st Century.
St Michael’s Catholic School will:
Be at the centre of Catholic Education and
the wider communities we serve in
Buckinghamshire.