MGSC Values Exploration

Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions. They provide the general guidelines for conduct. They help us to determine what is important to us. Values describe the qualities we choose to embody to guide our actions; the sort of College we want to be; the manner in which we treat ourselves and others, and our interaction with the world around us.

Throughout the year staff, students and parents have been working collaboratively to revisit and refine our College values. Survey data showed clear alignment of values throughout our community, reflecting the type of College we want to be. These qualities are:

• Inclusivity
• Creativity
• Achievement
• Empowerment

The process of embedding the values provides a framework for important conversations and concrete action that will lead to improvements in teaching and learning. The values work will support Strategic Plan goals and will be visible in our school culture through our actions, language, curriculum and wider school programs. 

Students will be involved in a whole school values activity on day one, lesson one of Headstart. The students will explore what the values look, feel and sound like and will devise actions for each. The student leadership team will collate the responses and create a school wide values matrix. The matrix will be shared, commonly understood and displayed in classrooms throughout the school. The values will also form the basis for a new collaborative classroom agreement process and will sit at the heart of our revisited instructional model. By authentically involving students in this process we will continue to strengthen our school culture. 

Our new values statement

 “Through courage and work we include, empower, create and achieve”

 powerfully incorporates our school motto. 

The values statement and motto have been developed into stickers to be shared with the community. 

I look forward to continuing the work on our instructional model in 2023. 

Ms Jenny Connolly

Director of Pedagogy and Professional Learning