Senior Leadership Day July 2019

Our fabulous leadership team met today to work on our three-year strategic roadmap. We are focussing on achieving our school vision of ‘enabling confident & capable learners.’

We also did some professional reading on well-being for staff & students. We plan to do some self-review on well-being using the NZCER Well-Being at School tool. Our professional reading included ‘Assessing & building wellbeing’ by Sally Boyd.

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