Leadership and Management

Galilee School Vision

Last week staff joined the school captains, Ethan and Charlotte and three parent representatives, Donna, Brendan and Trevour to review the Galilee School Vision.

Before we started reviweing Galilee's current Vision Statement we explored the recently released Catholic Education Melbourne Vision Statement for Catholic Schools:

Learning brings hope. In a Catholic school that is based on the experience of God’s love and care for all. Catholic educators see learning as a journey of endless possibilities, where students are energised to seek meaning and explore questions about the world around them. In partnership with parents and the broader Church, Catholic schools contribute to a life-foundation for students that is centred in Jesus Christ and grounded in truth, beauty and love. At the very heart of each Catholic school is a desire for the full flourishing of each student, across religious, physical, cognitive, emotional and social domains. Here we support students to grow in virtue and to embrace a view of themselves and the world that leads to peace, justice, and the prospering of the whole of creation. It is a journey that is enlightened by faith, animated by love and leading to hope.

After careful consideration we decided to re-write Galilee's School Vision Statement so that it is inline with current educational priorities and to include the combined voices of staff, students and parents in our community

Maree Holmes from Catholic Education Melbourne facilitated the School Vision Meeting in the hall last Wednesday. During the meeting we worked in groups to develop a draft Vision Statement. We started by developing a Vision Statement for five areas in our school:

• Leadership and Management
• Teaching and Learning
• Education in Faith
• Student Wellbeing
• School Community

These five separate Vision Statements now need to be combined to create one School Vision Statement.

A representative from each group has volunteered to collaboratively work on combining the statements to form a draft Vision Statement for Galilee.

We hope that this process will be completed in early Term 2.  We thank those who have been apart of the process and we look forward to revealing our new School Vision Statement.

Amy Burns 

Deputy Principal