Our shared vision for Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School is to provide a quality education in a Christ-centred, Catholic community where children are nurtured in a secure and challenging environment.
‘Empowering our children to be critical thinkers who are able to make a difference in their world as witnesses to the Good News of Jesus’.
We have a strong commitment to improvement at OLOR and each year develop a School Improvement Plan (SIP) around the three key areas of:
- Catholic Life and Mission
- Learning and Teaching
- Pastoral Care
Strategic Goals: Catholic Life and Mission
To develop students as disciples of Jesus using the ‘Head, Heart, Hand’ model of transformative learning.
Key Improvement Strategies
- Explore and develop a greater variety of prayer experiences for class prayer
- Organise PL around rich prayer classroom liturgy exteriences, RE assessment and journalling.
- Introduce student journalling to enable students to write about their ‘relationship with Jesus.’
- Introduce a common mediation/prayer time to the weekly timetable
- Develop a ‘cultures of thinking’ rubric for Mission
- Develop deeper awareness of and commitment to Social Justice initiatives and students’ responses
Strategic Goal: Learning and Teaching
To develop students as creative, self-directed learners
Key Improvement Strategies
- Professional Learning on (i) high quality pedagogical practices, (ii) student goal setting, (iii) student feedback/forward and (iv) Naplan writing rubric.
- Deepen understanding of Cultures of Thinking and develop a CoT rubric for learning and teaching. through involvement in staff PLC (Professional Learning Communities)
- Continued focus on analysis of data and differentiation
- Use of a range of mobile devices in classrooms – ipads, laptops, apple TVs and Chromebooks
Strategic Goal: Pastoral Care
To enhance learning across the curriculum, underpinned by wellbeing principles
Key Improvement Strategies
- Continued focus on ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ (SEL) for students
- Involve grades in special programs to foster emotional learning – Rock and Water in Year 4; Girls Power and Boys Power in Year 5 and 6
- Conduct Get Lost Mr Scary and Seasons
- Explore ways to incorporate SEL strategies into the learning/teaching program
- Cybersafety lessons K-6
- UR Strong program
- Wellbeing Week in Week 7 of each term to encourage stillness, silence and simplicity and time with family
