OUR STRATEGIC PLAN 2025

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VISION STATEMENT

 

Empowering and inspiring our learners to be the very best they can be!

 

OUR CORE PURPOSE

With our Tamariki at the forefront of all we do, we will create a safe, inclusive and vibrant environment for our learning community, enabling people to reach their full potential socially, mentally and academically through collaborative, professional relationships, a curriculum lens and Hauora.

 

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SCHOOL STATEMENT

Ravensbourne School was opened in 1877 and has a proud history. Situated just a few minutes' drive from Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Sports Stadium on the West Harbour on the way to Koputai | Port Chalmers, we have arguably the best view of any school in Ōtepoti ! Our spacious site allows plenty of scope for adventure-based learning, including trees, banks, a large grass field, tennis/netball courts and a playground.  A BMX bike track is in the development stages.

 

The school is a U1, decile 6, state co-educational school with a roll of approximately 17 students with 20% of students identifying as Māori and 5% identifying as Pacifica. 

With the proximity to Port Otago, University of Otago, Otago Polytechnic and close to the city Ravensbourne School is representative of a wide socioeconomic group. Some families currently in attendance having been part of the school whānau for three generations!

 

Ravensbourne School is staffed for 1.4, with the Tumuaki | principal and release teacher working three and a half days per week. Ravensbourne School has two support staff - our Office Administrator and a Learning Assistant.  

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The Board of Trustees is a mixture of local community members, school whānau and staff.

Our classes are multi-level which allows students to make progress at the level that meets their specific learning needs.  We often use our local environment and opportunities to participate in learning outside of the classroom.  Tamariki | children are taught to swim throughout Terms 1 and 4 in our heated indoor swimming pool.  We are also fortunate enough to have an amazing Pump BMX Bike track on our grounds!

 

Our school values together with the whakatauki that was gifted to the school in 1923 and underpin all that we do.

 

School Values: 
 

 - Hauora - Excellence - Aroha - Respect - Teamwork -

 

School Whakatauki
 

Kia kaha, Kia maia, Kia manawanui

Be Brave, Be Strong, Be Willing

 

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STRATEGIC PLAN - PRIORITES FOR 2025

 

 National Education Learning Priority:              

Objective 1 : Learners at the Centre  

Strategic Goal 1: Have high aspirations for every ākonga | learner  
 

Strategic goal 2: To encourage ākonga | learner to participate and engage in their learning, develop student agency so they can better manage their own learning, teach self-management, and develop the skills to use feedback and feed forward to enhance their work.

                     

                                                                             

National Education Learning Priority:
Objective 2:  Barriers free access
Strategic Goal 1:  Ensure every  ākonga | learner gains sound foundation skills including language, literacy and numeracy and support these by partnering with their whānau and communities to design and deliver education that responds to their needs, and sustains their identities, languages and cultures.

​Strategic Goal 2:  To expect our students to show respect, collaboration, cooperation and confidence, while considering their own and others well being. Develop values from the gifted motto.

 

Kia Kaha, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui.

Be brave, be strong ,be willing.

 

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OUR SPECIAL CHARACTER

We run under the Enviroschool umbrella which include the guiding principles of 

Empowered students

Learning for Sustainability

Te Ao Māori perspectives

Respect for the diversity of people and culture

Sustainable communities

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We are  also a STEAM school, this means in our programmes we prioritise

Science 

Technology 

Engineering  

The Arts 

Maths

 

These are all underpinned by a solid foundation of skills in reading, writing, math and oral language.

This is all put together in a problem-based/ project-based approach giving the students a voice in their learning and the ability to problem solve and design solutions.