GOAL

Whole School and Community  Māoritanga :

Supported  by Successful Engagement with our whole community.

ACTION

• Develop a culturally responsive pedagogy across all learning opportunities and learning areas

• Celebrate Maori success as Maori

• Celebrate Maori success by Maori

• Develop a sense of Turangawaewae for the school

• Using community experts

TARGET

• Mentoring

• Community involvement in school activity and ownership /  Whanau meetings

• Extending Māori Tikanga and Language skills

• TAM and RRR

• COL support Māori Achievement

• Efficient communications systems in school and the whole community

•  Easily manageable – Specific communication channels  best suited for our school

• Web-site connections / Use of the school app

• Work within the Community of Schools to achieve the common goals of the COL

GOAL

Professional Learning : Supported by

• Growing our pedagogy through inquiry

• IT technology up-skilling

       Reflective Practice

ACTION

• IT – digital tech skills and capability – setting a common standard for all teachers at Trident

• Subject knowledge – on-going development and extension in all areas

• Te Ao Māori – growing our understanding of the culture in which Whakatane exists.

• Sharing knowledge and skill – breaking the silos of learning

TARGET

• Our Teacher Pedagogy

• Content

• Standards

• Moderation

• TAI (Consolidate Teaching as Inquiry) Common platform

• Subject specific extension PD (In school and out)

• COL support data support and application

• Specific / technical skills /

GOAL

Academic Achievement: Supported by a Curriculum that reflects the learning community and maintains and raises  current NCEA achievement levels

ACTION

• Cross curriculum – across departments – shared curriculum, standards, data and expertise

•  Resources – identifying the essentials and planning for further developments

• Develop specific tracking programmes of students by all teachers to ensure detailed planning and support.

TARGET

• Flexible time table to inspire innovation   and sharing of curriculum

• Courses that accommodate the needs of students at risk.

• Courses that meet the overlapping needs all students – Scholarship, Mid band and Support classes.

• Tracking/Monitoring progress across cohorts to ensure improvement in NCEA levels

• Developing an Holistic progress and achievement mechanism

• In-school COL support for extending Literacy and Numeracy across the  curriculum

GOAL

Pastoral Care and Core Values:

Supported by Restorative Practice  

ACTION

• Restorative Practice  

• Relationships that reflect the Core values of the school

• Manaakitanga / Whanaungatanga support our values in the school

• Core values are further embedded through  our current values

TARGET

• House System (Examine and evaluate current structure / explore alternatives / research    different  structures ie vertical forms/ small learning groups/ tutor groupings for mentoring/

• Current systems – Kamar / PB4L / Research other approaches

• Student Leadership / Tuakana Teina