Strategic Planning Meeting

1. Governors’
Development Planning
Meeting
St. Mary’s Catholic College
April 2004

2. Mission Statement
St. Mary’s Catholic High School is a caring faith community.
Our mission is to provide an outstanding whole-person
education through which all are challenged to grow in
wisdom, understanding, self-esteem and closeness to God.

3. Session’s Objectives
• To inform governors of some of the main
strategic issues affecting the school
• To identify additional strategic issues affecting
the school
• To identify new objectives that can be
considered for inclusion in the SDP 2004-07

4. Megatrends
• Exponential ICT development
• Globalisation
• Social fragmentation (at a micro and macro level)
• Increasing Accountability
• Informed Professional Judgement (post-informed
central prescription)
• Difficulties in recruiting/retaining high calibre
staff
• Declining Church attendance (a lack of belonging
but no less believing?)

5. Schooling for
Tomorrow
OECD Scenarios

6. OECD Trends
• Extended Adolescence
• Increasing time in front-end loaded education
• Entering labour market later
• Delaying family responsibilities
• The Knowledge Economy
• Know what, know why, know how, know who
• Schooling deals in know what

7. OECD Trends
• Inequality and Exclusion
• Reductions in wealth and income inequalities
in 20th Century now reversed
• Impact on young and unskilled
• Link between education outcomes and poverty
• Changing Family & Community Life
• Individualism and social fragmentation
• Decline of the conventional family

8. Future School Scenarios
•Extending the Market Model
•De-schooling
•Re-schooling

9. Extending the Market Model
• Extended Market Model
• Learning bought and sold by a wide variety of
organisations
• Greater privatisation of education
• Specialist Schools & vouchers

10. De-Schooling
• Learning Networks and Network Society
• Dissatisfaction with institutions
• Virtual Schools
• 14-19 Review
• Meltdown Scenario
• Fuelled by Teacher Exodus
• Impact on student learning
• Varies geographically and by subject

11. Re-schooling
• Schools as Core Social (Spiritual) Centres
• Schools seek to counteract effect of social
fragmentation
• Personal, social and community outcomes
• Extended Schools
• (Belonging before believing)
• (Impact on parishes)

12. Re-Schooling
• Schools as Focused Learning Organisations
• Focus on cognitive outcomes
• Linked to knowledge economy
• Focus on quality and equality of opportunity
• Learning Organisations – focus on CPD, R&D
and extensive networking
• Workforce agreement

13. Current and Future Roles for Schooling
• Custody
• Cognitive Development
• Behavioural rules – rules & routines
• Socialisation – values & dispositions
• Screening and Sorting

14. Current Strategic Influences
• 14-19 Curriculum & Qualification Reforms
• Every Child Matters
• Building Schools for the Future
• Deanery/Diocesan Reviews

15. The Session Ahead
• Identify any strategic influences that have been
missed
• Find the GAPS between our vision and the
College Development Plan
• Identify new objectives
• Prioritise new objectives you have identified