The following values shape our deeds: - Striving for Excellence in our achievements, standards, and ambitions for ourselves and each other.
- Maintaining Integrity in our relationships, procedures, professionalism and citizenship.
- Giving Meaning and Purpose through ideals, goals and reflection to develop confidence and resilience and instil hope and a passion for life.
- Respecting Diversity in our curriculum, each other and the community.
- Encouraging Innovation which fosters: hope and sustainability; challenge and considered risk-taking; achieving success and learning from failure; creativity and ideas; and self-belief and active engagement.
Educational Principles These values will become evident through our daily actions when we: - Ensure excellence in teaching and learning so that all students feel valued, are challenged and experience success.
- Provide a safe, compassionate, supportive working environment where individuals have personal safety; are respected and nurtured; and are challenged and accountable.
- Provide a quality curriculum, which celebrates both gender differences and commonalities, and provides learning opportunities for girls and boys, which are ambitious in their content and organization.
- Collaboratively make informed decisions, which produce the best possible outcomes for all the partners in our school community.
- Match and improve available resources to support excellence in learning and teaching and the integrity of our dual site school.
- Use appropriate information technology to enhance communication, the delivery of the curriculum, access to information, and management and administration.
- Foster the development of integrated leadership so that all members of the school community understand and embrace their personal and collective rights and responsibilities.
- Respect both the natural and built environment from which we draw inspiration for our learning and development.
- Sustain dialogue with our community drawing richness from it as a source of wisdom, identity and support.
Lisa Sperling College Principal - Williamstown High SchoolÂ
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