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

• 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).

Increase capability of teachers and principals to improve students' learning and achievement through e-learningotearoa;

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 community participation in school through a range of ICT-based forums especially for Maori and Pasifika.