Teaching and Learning

This goal includes student achievement, teaching and learning programmes, professional development opportunities for staff, pedagogy and Te Kotahitanga, and student behaviour management.

• Inspire all students to aim for personal excellence and to have high expectations of their ability to be successful.
• Implement the New Zealand Curriculum successfully, noting the need to create a school curriculum and being mindful of statements about Vision, Principles, Values, Key Competencies, Effective Pedagogy and Learning Areas contained within the curriculum.
• Achieve NCEA results comparable with schools similar to Rosehill College.
• Align our curriculum and careers guidance for senior students with the principles of Schools Plus.
• Provide explicit student behaviour management processes based on restorative practices following consultation with families/whanau and students.
• Lift Maori and Pasifika students’ achievement so their results are comparable with other students at Rosehill College.
• Ensure that all classes receive quality teaching.
• Enhance the value of parent/student and teacher interviews.
• Improve our communication with parents regarding the performance of their students.

Valuing People in our Community

This goal includes valuing students, staff, school families/whanau, our partner schools, and ensuring we have effective staff recruitment and retention processes and effective induction of new students to Rosehill College. One aim is to ensure that the College is well regarded in our community.

• Recruit and retain quality staff.
• Ensure that students are consulted about and participate effectively in school activities.
• Have effective links with partner schools.
• Embed the College’s values.
• Liaise with stakeholders in our community so we can address community issues affecting the school as effectively as possible.

Physical Environment

This goal includes providing the best possible classrooms and other buildings and amenities around the school, maintaining our grounds in excellent order, and expanding the finances available to the College.

• Locate additional income streams for the school.
• Improve classroom environments by improving their décor and by providing modern teaching technologies
• Improve student amenities around the College including toilets, shade, shelter, seating.
• Improve the quality of our grounds.
• Expand the footprint of the College where that is possible and desirable.