Strategic Plan Towards Thirty
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a supportive educational environment that challenges, inspires and empowers each child and young person to achieve their potential, within a Christian framework.
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Our Commitment
Burgmann Anglican School provides a supportive, contemporary education within a Christian framework.
It is a co-educational Independent, Anglican school that offers a tailored learning environment for children from six months through to Year 12, across two campuses.
We believe that each person is a unique individual created by God with their own special gifts, strengths and needs.
We are proud of our past, and our relationship with Gungahlin Anglican Parish and the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. We have a strong aspiration to continually move forward.
We provide a safe and supportive environment that embeds positive wellbeing within its culture. Our learning programs are rich, diverse and seek to develop each students’ intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual, personal and social being.
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Our History
The foundation stone for Burgmann Anglican School was laid at the Valley Campus in November 1998 and the school opened in 1999 with 28 students.
Our School began in the lounge rooms of Gungahlin parish members who envisioned a school for the local community in the Anglican tradition. The School maintains a strong partnership with the Gungahlin Anglican Church and parishioners now meet and worship on both Valley and Forde campuses.
Our School has continued to grow, becoming a diverse and vibrant community of more than 1800 students. The second campus at Forde was opened in 2010 providing another stream for the early years program and specialising in Middle School, providing a unique and comprehensive program for Years 6 to 8.
The Early Learning Centre was opened at Valley Campus in 2020. This extended our care and learning journey for children from six months to Year 12.
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Our Motto
Our motto encapsulates our belief, our practice and our aspirations in three words:
Grace Commitment Wisdom
Each of us has been given the gift of God’s Grace in Christ, given freely and without judgement. Living with Grace allows us to forgive, to serve others and to walk humbly.
We step forward with Commitment; a dedication to be honourable and reliable and to embrace challenges. Learning requires commitment, an action of living and to enable us to flourish.
We seek to act with Wisdom, listening for, and learning to, a deeper understanding. As Bishop Ernest Burgmann said, “Knowledge alone is not enough. We must know what to do with it and in what spirit it is to be used.”
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Our Strategic Focus
To ensure an Enriched Community through strong relationships, active engagement and deep connection.
To further Advance and Develop people and place to ensure our school thrives.
To be leaders in Innovative Learning through our commitment to develop evidence-based and future-focused learning programs, that ensure student growth.
To develop our Culture of Care to enable our staff and students to flourish.
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Innovative Learning
Burgmann Anglican School is a leader in ensuring progressive, contemporary education.
Our approach focuses on developing the whole person, ensuring each child and young person’s potential. We challenge our students in a supportive and safe environment, allowing them to discover who they are, their capabilities and their future pathway. We ensure excellence in learning, providing our staff with the opportunity to continually develop and grow their practice. The School has embraced the use of technology, the staff are leaders in the education of STEM and are recognised for providing excellence in Middle Schooling.
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Our Innovative Learning approach is represented on the School crest by a key. A key needs to be turned to unlock a door and in the same way learning is an action where each person needs to be equipped and engaged to ensure they can unlock their full potential.
We will continue to be leaders in Innovative Learning through our commitment to develop evidencebased and future-focused learning programs that ensure student growth.
1 To offer an extensive program beyond the classroom, including a diverse co-curricular program and strong service and leadership opportunities that ensure the development of the whole child.
2 We will have implemented future-focused, innovative learning programs that meet the needs of Burgmann students.
3 Individual student growth will have been enhanced through the implementation of a school-wide system for the use of data and the promotion of evidence-based teaching and learning programs.
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Culture of Care
Burgmann Anglican School is a nurturing and supportive school with a culture of care across its whole community.
We are a Positive Education school that provides programs which explicitly teach wellbeing to enable our students to flourish. We also care for our staff, our students and our wider community. Our students are at the heart of all we do and we seek to ensure that every child is known, connected and supported.
Our Culture of Care is represented on the School crest by the Crosier or
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Shepherd’s Crook. In the same way that the Shepherd carried the Crook to be able to help and support the sheep in the flock, the Crosier reminds us of the way Jesus cared for his flock and provides a clear message to us all of the expectation to care and nurture others.
We will further develop our Culture of Care to enable our staff and students to flourish.
1 We will have integrated Positive Education from ELC to Year 12, enhanced by our wellbeing supports and care programs for staff, students and parents.
2 Our commitment to reconciliation, the environment and actionservice programs will have developed a genuine sense of servanthood across our community.
3 The Burgmann Anglican School staff culture will be positive, collaborative and pivotal to our attraction, development and retention of high-quality staff.
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Enriched Community
The Burgmann Anglican School community is inclusive, diverse and supportive.
We remain committed to our origin of being a school that has grown from, and with, its local community and seek to remain a central hub for our community, actively engaging, welcoming and participating with our local community, our Alumni, and the Anglican Schools’ community.
Our commitment to an Enriched Community is represented on the
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School crest by the group of four people. Each is slightly different. They stand together and also apart, representing a community of diverse individuals.
We will seek to ensure an Enriched Community through strong relationships, active engagement and deep connection.
1 We will have a strong Anglican identity that is deepened by our active connection to Anglican Schools and our strong relationship with the Gungahlin Anglican Church.
2 Our community will be actively engaged in school life with positive, inclusive and supportive opportunities and culture.
3 We will have developed a vibrant and connected Alumni community including past students, parents and staff.
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Advance and Develop
Burgmann Anglican School continues to be forward thinking and progressive.
We have strong practices of governance and operations with robust systems that ensure our students and staff are safe, with continual improvement a priority. We offer strong professional learning practices for staff that endeavour to build their capacity and meet their professional aspirations.
The Southern Cross on the School crest symbolises Burgmann Anglican School’s place and home. We recognise how lucky we are to live and learn in Canberra. The Southern Cross has also historically played a
key role in navigation, and symbolises our direction ‘Towards Thirty’. We are committed to continually advancing and developing our school, having a responsibility to do our very best with all that we have been entrusted. In the same way that the Southern Cross is recognisable in the night sky, Burgmann Anglican School seeks to be recognised as an outstanding education institution.
We seek to further Advance and Develop people and place to ensure our school thrives.
Our strategic goals:
1 We have strong communication systems that empower voice and agency and effectively report to the community.
2 Provide robust operations that ensure the ongoing development of the School including through compliance, our approach to stewardship and the building of capacity.
3 Have a 10-year Master Plan that articulates agile learning spaces for the future.
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Valley Campus 4 The Valley Avenue, Gungahlin 2912 Forde Campus Corner Francis Forde Boulevard and Hurrell Street, Forde 2914 T 02 6255 7700 Co-ed from Early Learning to Year 12 www.burgmann.act.edu.au