Defining the future By Joe Wright Principal
A school’s Mission and Values statement is the foundation from which you build a community upon. It is there to guide your decisions. It says to the world who you are and why you exist. Changing an institution’s Mission and Values statement is a once in a generation opportunity so you feel the weight of the responsibility to craft a message that speaks to all of our stakeholders – present and future. Our new Mission and Values statement has been a collaborative effort involving staff, students, parents, the Anglican Schools Commission and the Diocese. We have spent a great deal of time consulting, reflecting and refining our statement to make sure we capture the core message that we want to present to the community. There have been multiple drafts and even some partial rewrites but we are confident our final product is a message that will carry us through this next era of the College’s history. We decided on four values, one that can be represented in each House story and a theme for each of the four terms of the school year. Each value describes key practices which are the actions we want to see from our students. You will hear us using this language in assemblies, class and tutor groups. Our programs will be designed to encourage these behaviours in students. Our final aim is that they will become people who are committed to personal growth, courageous in life, community minded, and in control of their destiny. And this ties into the Mission and Vision statements – education is a gift, and it is a gift we want our students to use not just to better themselves, but to better their community. We want our students to ultimately have a positive influence in the world.
Below: Thinking about the future - students from the class of 2034 Right: The FCAC Mission, Vision and Values
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