Each year at St Michael's we have a focus on specific improvement priority areas. The strategic approach to improvement is a way for the school to focus its professional learning time, resources and management in the right areas in order to have a positive impact on student learning, wellbeing and faith development.

This year our school priority areas are:

• Vision and Mission - after working on our revised Vision and Mission for the past 3 years. This year the focus is on ritualising the vision and mission, where we all as a community become familiar with what it is and what it feels like and looks like in our community.

• Literacy - our focus this year is to consolidate the learning that has occurred over the last few years and build consistent and shared understanding of a balanced literacy approach across the school.

• Assessment - this year we will be working on creating a common understanding of quality assessment practises. What are they? How they should inform practice and how they can be used effectively to share progress on learning and identify next steps in learning.

Throughout our newsletters this year we will be sharing our learning journey with you.