One Step At A Time STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS TOWARD
Gippsland Philosophy
We are committed to providing a holistic education that celebrates not just academic success but also wellbeing and active participation in co-curricular activities. The 5-week Highlands Programme at our Tanglin Gippsland campus in Australia is a tailor-made immersive learning experience for Year 9 students, offering a safe and supportive environment where they can challenge themselves and grow. The focus of this unique opportunity is to foster three essential attributes:
Curiosity: Uncover the joy of learning
Confidence: Thrive and flourish
Community: Belong and connect
Since Year 9 is a formative year for adolescent development, this programme will empower students to apply the skills they’ve acquired and challenge them to cultivate new ones.
Team Tanglin
Tanglin Gippsland is an outward-looking and dynamic centre for educational excellence that is warmly responsive to its community, socially responsible and proud to contribute to the future.
To achieve this aim, we will:
1. Shape and build the Tanglin community by ensuring students at Gippsland will purposefully participate in the rich curricular and co-curricular opportunities at the campus;
2. Promote the diversity and richness of personal interaction that defines Tanglin through the residential programme at Gippsland;
3. Communicate the latest updates, community stories and student achievements to the broader Tanglin community;
4. Provide opportunities for all members of the community to be part of the Tanglin Gippsland experience and understand their role as contributing members of the community.
Flourishing Individuals
Tanglin Gippsland aims to nurture and inspire every individual, ensuring they feel happy, valued, and successful in achieving their intellectual, spiritual, cultural, social, and physical goals.
To achieve this aim, we will:
1. Affirm and embed a campus-wide approach to promoting, protecting, prioritising and safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people;
2. Support our students effectively by monitoring, tracking and analysing pastoral and wellbeing data, providing them with the skills to deal with issues, giving them a voice to share concerns and providing effective interventions when needed;
3. Utilise Service Learning opportunities to educate our students about how to support various community initiatives;
4. Recognise excellence, participation and leadership in a broad range of endeavours through clearly understood awards;
5. Ensure all members of our diverse community feel included, by listening to students and promoting equitable outcomes.
Inspired Learners
Tanglin Gippsland aims to be a distinctive learning community, utilising both British-based and international learning programmes, to nurture and inspire lifelong learners who develop international-mindedness that will allow them to contribute to the world with confidence.
To achieve this aim, we will:
1. Ensure that students are at the centre of teaching and learning, which is informed by research as well as recognising and responding to the individual needs of learners;
2. Continue to develop and review our curriculum and enrichment programmes;
3. Offer a broad range of Clubs and Societies to extend and inspire intellectual curiosity;
4. Ensure the Outdoor Education programme stretches and challenges students at an appropriate level.
Future Ready
Tanglin Gippsland aims to provide students with the skills, and dispositions to leave school ready for the next phase of their learning journey.
To achieve this aim, we will:
1. Establish the Highlands programme at the Tanglin Gippsland campus in Australia as a site for learning, and holistic development of our students;
2. Educate and support our students to understand principles of sustainability and how this can be embodied in their personal mission;
3. Utilise technology effectively and prepare students for their digital life beyond school;
4. Excourage our students to develop an understanding of indigenous people and their importance as custodians of Gippsland and the Australian Alpine regions.
Our People and School Systems
Tanglin Gippsland aims to be recognised locally and internationally as a professionally stimulating and rewarding workplace that is committed to innovation, high-quality professional development, and the constant interchange of ideas as well as investing in staff who always seek to enhance the quality of education within and beyond the School.
To achieve this aim, we will:
1. Support all staff to evaluate and enhance their professional practice;
2. Create a positive and inclusive work environment that fosters employee engagement, satisfaction and wellbeing;
3. Develop an understanding of technologies to promote opportunities within and beyond the School;
4. Continue to recruit high–quality staff who understand and contribute to Tanglin’s values and educational philosophy;
5. Implement regulatory best practices in sustainability, risk and compliance, cybersecurity, and Child Safe Standards across the organisation with specific reference to staff understanding and cognisance;
6. Create a campus focus on workplace safety and health.
TANGLIN GIPPSLAND MISSION
Tanglin Trust School in Gippsland provides British-based learning with an international perspective. At Tanglin we strive to make every individual feel valued, happy and successful. Responsibility, enthusiasm and participation are actively encouraged, and integrity is prized. Working together in a safe, caring yet stimulating residential environment, we set high expectations whilst offering strong support, resulting in a community of lifelong learners who can contribute with confidence to our world.
TANGLIN GIPPSLAND VISION
We aspire to be the best provider of experiential education in the world with a dynamic learning community which nurtures and inspires every individual to be the best they can be.
2 Pinnacle Drive, Rawson, Victoria 3825, Australia w: www.tts.edu.sg/tanglin-highlands