Strategic priorities and goals
The strategic priorities and their associated goals are inextricably linked and reflect the extensive collaboration across all College functions and members of the College Community.
Our priorities
Our goals
Aim to deliver a truly transformational educational journey for each child, building their confidence and self-worth and preparing them to be engaged and contributing citizens of the world.
- Ensure that our Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years (Years 7-10) is contemporary, dynamic, innovative and effective.
- Be known in the education sector as a leader in delivering a holistic approach to learning and wellbeing.
- Attract and retain the best staff by supporting them to grow and thrive.
- Embed sustainability and respect for our natural world in our teaching, learning and wellbeing.
Be a beacon for diversity and inclusion. Open our doors wide. Reflect the Melbourne community in which we live. Support and enable diversity of our students, families, teachers and leaders – socio-economic, gender, cultural, racial – with respect, kindness and empathy.
- Create greater access to a Wesley College education through a large and growing scholarship program.
- Deepen our connections to First Nations people and culture through enhanced engagement and programs.
- Build stronger connections to regional Australian communities to grow and diversify our Learning in Residence student cohort.
Inspire and activate more people in our communities and strategic partnerships (existing and new) to help us do more and achieve more for our students and the future of the school.
- Encourage and activate broader and deeper connections across our diverse Wesley community – creating more lifelong engagement through greater participation, advocacy and support.
- Extend our networks regionally and globally to enrich our community
Ensure that all our actions lead to sustainable outcomes – for our people, our planet, our place and our future.
- Develop and implement an environmental sustainability action plan for the College that achieves carbon neutrality by 2030.
- Consider the optimal size and financial sustainability of Wesley College now, and into the future.
- Inspire philanthropy in our community to sustain future generations (see 2.1).
Lead the way. Forge new paths. Evolve with imagination and insight. Wisely and courageously break new ground to enhance the Wesley educational journey and contribute to the school’s dynamic future.
- Reimagine the 'Shape of the Week' to enhance student and teacher experience.
- Explore and qualify opportunities to better support alternative pathways for students in Years 10 to 12.
