Strategic Plan 2021-24

YEAR ONE UPDATE

Mulgrave’s 2021-24 strategic plan, Weaving Our Future - Common Threads, provides a set of goals and actions that set the vision to continue our trajectory as a student-centric leader in international education. The plan emerged after deep research and community consultation and focuses on three key areas to further strengthen our provision:

Engaging student agency (voice) and technology to continue to support increased personalisation of learning, curriculum and support within and beyond the IB programme frameworks.

Increased focus on student health and wellbeing with more emphasis on social and emotional learning and the increased use of experiential outdoor education.

Continued focus on students’ skills development with special emphasis on creativity, global citizenship, and social entrepreneurship.

While the global pandemic inevitably slowed some initiatives, many things have been achieved during this first year of implementation. While not everything can be listed in this report, here are some highlights:

Personalisation

• Further enhancement of the Enriched

Pathway to graduation for students in G11 & 12

• Further enhancement and extension of the G6-9 LEAP elective programme

• Reestablishment of an extended G3-12 co-curricular programme post-COVID

• Reestablishment of a diverse GEx programme for students in G6-10 with a focus on local social and environmental issues

• Creation of blended learning (online/ in-person) options to give G10-12 students choice about how, when, and where they learn

• Creation of online learning modules in creative thinking skills

• Enhancement of student agency and creativity in G1-5 through the increased use of the new Makerspace and the new embedded JS library

• Further development of personalised support through peer mentoring in G10 & 11

Health and Wellbeing

• Appointment of a Student

Wellbeing Director and collection of wellbeing baseline data

• A strategic and focussed approach to wellbeing through

Mulgrave’s IPERMAH model based on positive psychology with an initial concentration on positive relationships and support post-COVID

• Further enhancement of the

Lifeskills/Character Education programme in G6-12 with a focus on developing character strengths

• Opening of Mulgrave’s Squamish

Outdoor Leadership and

Education (SOLE) Centre in May 2021 with many grades already onsite for enhanced outdoor learning experiences

Skill Development

Global citizenship

• Creation of a compulsory global citizenship course for G10 students

• Integration of our approach to global citizenship with a DEIJ focus in all grades on our students’... understanding their own identity and the privilege and challenges they have understanding the identity of others and the privileges and struggles they face having the intercultural skills to connect with others

• Appointment of a DEIJ Director

Creativity

• Creation of online learning modules on creative thinking skills in the

Middle School

Entrepreneurship

• Further expansion of our entrepreneurial programming through the after school YELL course, elective courses in the

Middle School, and a programme of visiting speakers

Other key learning developments

• A major review of the teaching of literacy skills across the JS

Other major developments with an impact on learning and teaching

• Opening of the Athletics and

Performing Arts Centre • The creation of the PYP Makerspace • The radical redesign of the library and library services