We believe a distinct Catholic culture is one that is explicitly celebrated, visible, expressive and lived.

We endeavour to realise the potential of being human by developing the Catholic heart, spirit and intellect of our community of students, staff and families. We celebrate our faith, giving witness to God’s hope of promoting the dignity of every person, by embodying a contemporary Catholic world-view.

Our areas of focus:

• Deepening the spiritual, scriptural and theological capacity of our community of staff, students and families through professional learning opportunities that are engaging and which lead participants to greater understanding of their role in Catholic education.
• Celebrating our Catholic story through dialogue, ritual, prayer and action that is joyful and contextual to the community.
• Developing projects and opportunities which facilitate an interaction and fusion of the Catholic story within our contexts.
• Developing a common language and shared understanding of the term ‘Catholic identity’ and ‘formation’.

We aim to inspire a love of learning to maximise learning growth through leadership and teaching practices that engage each learner in deeper learning.

A continuing focus on leadership and teaching practices at system, school and classroom, provides the foundations for further action to transform learning and teaching that creates excellence, equity and wellbeing for each of our students.

The key initiative to deliver on this priority is the Learning and Teaching Strategy which aims to inspire a love of learning that actively and wholly engages students as they live and learn in the world around them. In a constantly changing world, the strategy creates the opportunity to reimagine education in our time. The areas of focus include:

• Connect: Sustained foundations for learning
• Transform: Engaged deeper learning.

Connect: Sustained foundations for learning

Embedding and sustaining foundational practices in literacy, numeracy and Catholic perspectives through coherence in action.

The central focus of Connect: Sustained foundations for learning is developing leadership and teacher practices that impact positively on the learning progress, achievement and wellbeing of each student.

Essential foundations for each student to access and engage in learning will be developed through an ongoing focus on responsive, differentiated and engaging pedagogies.

Transform: Engaged deeper learning

Transforming practice to wholly engage each student in deeper learning that is rich, rigorous, relevant and responsive.

The central focus of Transfom: Engaged deeper learning is transforming leadership and teaching practices that wholly engage students in learning
Sparking passion and purpose in learning will support the development of capabilities and changed practices needed to create a hope-filled future.

Forging new partnerships beyond the classroom and school will engage students in new and expanded opportunities as connected and contributing global citizens.

At the heart of our Catholic faith is the understanding that every human being is made in the image of God.

We know that people thrive when their holistic growth is supported, and that student wellbeing and learning are inextricably linked and must be embedded in the life of the school. That is why we are committed to creating environments that have a positive effect on the wellbeing of our students, staff, and families.

Our areas of focus:

• Creating safe environments that nurture wellbeing is the cornerstone to supporting students, families and employees to realise their potential. Our approach to wellbeing encompasses spiritual, psychological, physical, social, emotional, financial, and cultural wellbeing. Each component of wellbeing is promoted through our Catholic values and mission, providing a healthy, safe, and productive environment to support every individual’s growth.
• Advocating for the common good through social justice and ecological action. The Church teaches that creation is a gift from God. We care for creation because of the relationship between the environment and our well-being, a relationship known as human ecology. We aspire for all schools and the office to embed the messages of Laudato Si’ into our day to day activities.

Our people are our greatest strength.

We strive for an authentic workplace in a localised and global Catholic context through attracting and retaining committed and talented people who are called to nurture each other to improve young people’s learning experiences. As the nature of work itself rapidly changes, we must invest in opportunities for professional, personal and spiritual development and create career pathways, to ensure our mission is fuelled by an engaged workforce.

Our areas of focus:

• Building a talented, committed and high performance workforce through attracting, supporting, promoting and retaining high achieving employees.
• Developing a thorough understanding of the skills, knowledge, attributes and roles needed amongst our workforce to deliver its strategic and operational goals, now and in the future.
• Investing in the professional and technical development of staff.
• Prioritising ongoing faith formation for staff that is appropriate to their personal formation journey.
• Creating meaningful pathways and opportunities for leadership which are focused on student outcomes.

We have a responsibility to shape the society to which we aspire.

Being inclusive is about building communities that value, celebrate and respond to diversity, and are underpinned by respectful relationships. Diversity within our community ensures that different qualities, skills, perspectives and experiences are brought together to provide an enriched learning and working experience. Education is recognised as the key pathway to improving equitable economic and social, emotional, and wellbeing outcomes.

Our areas of focus:

• Growing communities that value, celebrate and respond to individual identity and cultural diversity.
• We will develop our ability to differentiate, welcome and adapt to students and families with a diverse and complex set of cultural, social and linguistic attributes, giving in-depth consideration of the individual needs of our students, their abilities and challenges.
• Improving access to education and opportunity for all members of our community through inclusive and culturally safe environments.