Goals+(Sacred+Heart+2010)

** | ****National Goals**

 * 1: Supports integration of ICT to give effect to the New Zealand Curriculum / Te Marautanga o Aotearoa;
 * 2: Increases capability of teachers and principals to improve students' learning and achievement through e-learning;
 * 3: Strengthens professional learning communities and increased collaboration within and across schools;
 * 4: Increases e-learning leadership and ICT strategic planning capability of principals and teachers;
 * 5: Increases the school community’s understanding of the educational contribution of e learning.

Cluster Goals
//Integration of ICT to give effect to the New Zealand Curriculum / Te Marautanga o Aotearoa//


 * Implement 2007 National Curriculum for years 9-10 focusing on cross competency skills Foster confident, capable, connected and effective learners who use ICT appropriately by incorporating a cross competency approach to core learning and life skills.
 * Raise achievement of all students in relation to selected thinking skills.
 * Develop and implement assessment and tracking procedures that targets a set of specific thinking skills across the participating schools.
 * Build teachers’ confidence and capability to extract, analyse and identify patterns in achievement data that will aid in the evidence-based decision-making cycle to improve teaching and learning (thinking skills).


 * Improve the engagement of students in learning (link to/utilise/incorporate other projects where appropriate eg. Te Kotahitanga, Early Starts to Qualifications, Atol).
 * All teachers participate in a ‘teaching as inquiry’ exercise utilising current educational research and an aspect of ICT.
 * Increase the technical competency of all staff with a range of computer hardware and software and to effectively utilise these within teaching practice (e.g. data projectors, clickview, interactive whiteboards, video technology, communication technology, assessment tools, LMS and SMS).
 * Explore the practicality of developing and implementing on-line units of work that students could complete extramurally.

//Strengthen professional learning communities and increased collaboration within and across schools;//
 * Each school produces and implements a succession plan that grows ICT leadership across the school.
 * Enhance collaborative cluster relationships and e-learning partnerships with contributing schools.

//Increase e-learning leadership and ICT strategic planning capability of principals and teachers//
 * Each school produces and implements a succession plan that grows ICT leadership across the school
 * Enhance collaborative cluster relationships and e-learning partnerships with contributing schools

// Increase the school community’s understanding of the educational contribution of e-learning. //
 * Increase community participation in school through a range of ICT-based forums especially for Maori and Pasifika.