4 May 2009
Strategic Planning Process Letter to the Community
Dear Parents, Caregivers, Staff and Students,
Strategic Plan Consultation
As advised in the Board newsletter at the end of last term, the review of the Churton Park School Charter and the development of a new Strategic Plan is about to begin. We hope the process outlined below will provide an opportunity for everyone who has a stake in Churton Park School to express their opinion on the school and their dreams for its future.
To have your say, all you need to do is follow these 4 steps:
Step 1: The process
Read this letter, which outlines the process and the timeline for review.
Step 2: The questions
A list of questions is attached. This is being provided to all parents, staff, students and other members of the community. Please take the time to reply. Your opinion DOES matter. We would like responses by Monday 18 May. Responses can also be completed by email – the questions are available on the School’s website www.churtonpark.school.nz.
Step 3: Consultation
We realise that survey questions often get a limited response and that some people prefer to share their views in other ways. There will be an opportunity for a meeting for interested members of the school community for informal, friendly discussion. Watch for the date to be announced in parent newsletters and on the website .
Step 4: Final consultation
After all the information has been received, the Board will collate it into a useable format and put together the final document, which will be published in Term 3, 2009.
Why the review?
It is important that the long term future of the school is planned in a logical way. It is also timely to consult with the community following the recent announcement about schooling in Churton Park.
Who prepares the plan?
The Board of Trustees is accountable to the government for the long term future of the School, and as such has the responsibility for putting the plan together. It is very important that we gather input from our community so that the plan reflects your wishes as much as possible. Churton Park School is a community school and we need to be sure that our community supports the directions the Board takes. Please make sure you take the opportunity to have your say.
We have set a reasonably tight timeline as we feel it is important to have the plan well in place before the end of the 2009 school year. The detailed planning will then need to be done and incorporated into the budget.
We look forward to hearing from you and meeting many of you in the next months and feel very excited about the future of Churton Park School.
Yours sincerely
Clare Helm Arthur von Sturmer
Chairperson Principal
Churton Park School
Strategic Plan Survey Questionnaire
For community and stakeholder consultation
Introduction
Thank you for taking the time to complete this brief questionnaire. Your feedback will be used to increase the Board of Trustee’s (the Board’s) understanding of what issues are important to the school’s community and stakeholders, and to provide direction to the Churton Park School’s strategic plan ( a long term plan covering 5 to 10 years). It is important that we get this feedback from as many of you as possible.
A copy of this questionnaire can be found on the school website at www.churtonpark.school.nz
All responses will be aggregated so that individual responses will not be identifiable, and presented to the Board of Trustees in aggregated format.
How to complete this questionnaire
The questionnaire is designed for quick responses and should therefore only take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
You may complete this questionnaire
Either
- electronically by email to the Board of Trustees care of principal@churtonpark.school.nz
Or
- by completing this form and delivering it to the box on the School Office counter marked Questionnaires for Strategic Plan Consultation
Or
- by completing this form and posting it to
The Board of Trustees
Churton Park School
90 Churton Drive
Churton Park
Wellington 6037
Please note that email addresses may identify you, so if you would like your survey input to remain anonymous, you may wish to post or deliver a hard copy to the school.
Q1 What is Churton Park school doing well?
Q1a On a scale of 1 to 5, how well do you think the school performs in the area of student achievement? Tick one box
1 Very Poor |
2 |
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4 |
5 Excellent |
Q1b On a scale of 1 to 5, how well do you think the school performs in developing student social and emotional skills? Tick one box
1 Very Poor |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 Excellent |
Q2 What could Churton Park School do better?
Q3a What do our students need to be successful in the future?
Q3b Of the items you have listed in Q3a above, to what level/standard is the school providing these? Please use the scale below to rate each of the items you have listed in Q3a.
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1 To a Very Poor standard |
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3 |
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5 To an Excellent standard |
Comment
Q4a What, for you, is the most important thing for Churton Park school to concentrate on in the next 5 years?
Q4b What other important things, if any, do you think Churton Park school should concentrate on in the next 5 years? (Please rank your responses in order of priority, with 1 being the highest priority.)
Q5 – What opportunities do you think Churton Park School could take advantage of? Consider community resources, partnerships, information technology, etc.
Q6a What positive outside factors, do you think, affect Churton Park School?
Q6b What negative outside factors, do you think, affect Churton Park School?
Q7 If you were to walk into Churton Park School in five years time what would you hope:
(a) The students would be like? And how, if at all would that be different from now?
(b) The leadership displayed by the school’s management team would be like? And how, if at all would that be different from now?
(c) The student achievement would be like? And how, if at all would that be different from now?
(d) The teaching environment would be like? And how, if at all would that be different from now?
(e) The key attributes would be that your child would have developed during their time at the school. And how, if at all would that be different from now?
(f) The school would be doing differently?
Q8 Which of the following values, if any, would you like to see reflected in the curriculum and school culture? (Tick as many boxes as you wish). A definition of these values can be found at http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz
| TICK | Values | TICK | Values |
Excellence (Aiming high) |
Equity (fairness and social justice) |
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Innovation (thinking critically, creatively and reflectively) |
Integrity (honesty, responsibility, accountability, acting ethically) |
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| Inquiry | Respect | ||
| Curiosity | Community and participation | ||
| Diversity | Ecological sustainability (Includes caring for the environment) |
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| Other (Please list) | |||
Thank you
for completing this questionnaire
Please return your responses by Monday 18 May 2009 to any of the options outlined in “How to complete this questionnaire” on page one.