ST.

THOMAS DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY

BULACAN INC.

ANNUAL OPERATIONAL PLAN

2018
 ASPIRATION GLOBAL SCHOOL GOALS SCHOOL STRATEGIES
STRATEGIES
 Delivering a planned and  To make explicit links Include understanding of
integrated approach to between elements of Dominican charism in
leadership for mission school life and the church induction of new staf
 To highlight to work of 
Dominicans around the Present charismic
world materials at teachers’
meetings
 Provide broad range of
religious/social
justice/prayerful
Strengthen capacity to experiences in which staf
lead, engage and and students can
teach with a re- participate
contextualised

Grow the holistic and  To develop a consistent

inclusive formation of
students and staf
and strategic approach to
formation and
induction
 To emphasize staf
spiritual formation and
provide opportunities for
same
Encourage staf
involvement in Mass and
prayer
Annual Staf Retreat
Encourage participation in
monthly schoolmass
Embed a contemporary
perspective in
identified learning areas
Sustain and enhance
authentic contemporary
expressions of
identity by:
Supporting the next phase
of the Leuven Project
Profiling and promoting
re-contextualization
Improve classroom teaching
of religion through efecting
teaching practice, including
the monitoring of student
progress and enhancing
teacher knowledge of the
story
 Whole school mass – San
Sisto Day, opening mass,
closing mass

Retreat experiences for
students
To seek ways that the Academic Leaders to
perspective can investigate ways of
be explored in all subject imbedding
areas (including issues to perspective into whole
do with social justice) school curriculum
  Ensure
Implement the perspectives included in
Relationships & Sexuality review of junior school
Education WPs as part of curriculum
documents across the review.
whole school. 
Implementation of
Sexuality documents into
the School.

Ensure
documentation is
reflected in
curriculum planning.

Deliver for whole staf
with regard to
documents.
 Continue to provide
service and justice
To highlight activities for staf and
social justice issues students
 To maintain accreditation Invite guest speakers
to teach religion surrounding social justice
initiatives

Explore additional service

activities – Year 7 and 8

Start planning for East

Timor immersion 2018.

Investigate indigenous
immersion program for
junior students.
 Include Fathers in school
Functions

Actively promoting
community Mass

Make links wherever

possible with the parish
and local school
community
Continue with celebrating Family Day

EXCELLENT LEARNING AND TEACHING

 ASPIRATION GLOBAL SCHOOL GOALS SCHOOL STRATEGIES
STRATEGIES
Grow engagement, Advance student progress  Provide School-wide Development of Academic
and achievement by: processes and structures Leadership position for
progress, achievement
 to enhance and track Learning and Teaching for
and wellbeing for each Improving literacy and student achievement in next triennium.
student numeracy teaching literacy and numeracy. Continue to use goals
practice in every  To be sensitive to the based faculty budget
classroom needs of staf, students creation/allocation to
 and our community. ensure targeted areas are
Resourcing and providing resources appropriately.
professional support for Proactively plan School
efective and expected initiatives to improve
teaching practices literacy
Use to gather
baseline data against
which to measure efect
Use to gather
subsequent data to gauge
efect of School literacy
initiatives
 Co-construct data walls to
reflect student
achievement as indicated
 by Cohesion and
PAT-R data.
 Engage in review and
Response process to
target individual and
cohort need.

Provide support for
teachers in every
classroom to enhance
their literacy teaching and
improve student
performance.

Accelerate literacy learning Use of data strategies to Implementation of

through: identify and respond to test to
 cohort and individual students to provide
Intensive targeted student needs. standardised baseline
support to identified data; continued
 Continue to in-service development of literacy
schools staf in the high yield data wall; development
Identified efective and strategies with regards to of numeracy data wall.
expected teaching literacy data gathering.
practices Implementation
Continued development test to students to
of staf capacity in use of provide standardised
BI Tool to monitor growth data;
incorporation of same
into data walls.
Upskill Academic
Leaders to make use of
BI Tool as an adjunct to

Innovate for excellence by:
 School curriculum and
Building on innovative
learning and teaching
practice
 deferred. This is
Scaling-up innovative
practices in emerging
priorities
the development of
departmental goals and
measurement of impact.
 Continue to expose staf
to the use of BI Tool as a
data mine to support
students and identify tailored teaching
need. programs.
 Conduct review of eview time
recommendations are
timetable structure. reflected in current
 In-depth analysis of Jnr structures.
curriculum Review alignment
between Curriculum
to include the nature of planning documentation
assessment and its
Restructure whole of
School timetable to
remove study line from
2018 Year 12 cohort (in
order to maximize
teaching time for
implementation of New
Senior framework).

Engage to
develop understanding
of plus line of sight
planning with Academic
Leaders and subject

Achieve maximum learning
potential by assisting
schools to work with parents
and the broader community
to support each child.
relationship with convenors as part of
line of sight planning.
 work program review.
Develop staf awareness Develop whole of staf
and proficiency with MoP understanding of through staf meeting
across group and wider and departmental
teaching force. planning.
 
Investigate opportunities Research (to be
to develop STEM completed)
initiatives within the
School
To support parents in 
educating students re: Continue to foster high
quality relationships with
PDE topics stakeholders
To foster positive and Continue to develop our
affirming relationships relationships within the
with parents and system including
members of the within other school
community communities
Increase parent  Conduct parent nights as
involvement in the appropriate
School. information/wellbeing
 and issues
Increase links outside of
the School e.g. primary Prepare information
feeder schools. sheets, update website
 with relevant information
Increase links between and keep website current
SSG and other Schools to – articles in
share practice and forge networks. Verigram/Parent
Portal/social media
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
ASPIRATION
Build Sustainability
through people and
capacity
Ensure Stewardship of
resources with
transparency,
accountability and
compliance
GLOBAL
STRATEGIES
Develop a sustainable
futures strategy reflective of
church teachings and
informed by broader
evidence.
Support continuous
improvement and growth at
individual, team and
organisational levels
through the Performance
and Development Process.
SCHOOL GOALS SCHOOL
STRATEGIES
 Utilise Social  Source fair trade
Teaching esp. products.
sustainability and  Promote sustainability
stewardship of creation to issues with student body
guide decision making. via Greenies Group
 Ensure all school  Staf and resources (time
employees are aware of and PD costs) allocated
and included in the Goal towards staf meeting
Setting and Performance regularly with
and Development process members (refer listing of
 Develop Learning teams and leaders) to
communities for staf to prepare and review goals
encourage keeping and discuss professional
abreast of current development
research and trends. opportunities or needs
 Continue to promote staf for 2017 and beyond.
leadership training.  Promote Leadership
 Focus on ensuring that all programs and ofer
Professional Development opportunities for
is aligned with school leadership development.
goals.  Further encourage the
 To support and foster networking of teachers
well-being of staf with teachers of similar
 Revise the buddy system schools.
for new Staf.
Improve the health and  To continue to monitor  Review WELL structure
safety environment, and the operations and function against
promote a consistent  emergent issues.
approach to the continuous  To clarify/revise the roles Clarify and revise
improvement of health and and expectations current middle leadership
safety culture through the associated with middle role descriptors in
Safety and Wellbeing readiness for review in
leadership positions.
Strategic Action Plan 2017.
 Continue to strengthen
2017-20.  Provide information
use of SBSS within whole
sessions and help sessions
teaching community.
for staf in order to
ensure further
implementation

Optimize the use of  Monitor emerging  Fund and support the

technology to support technologies that add weekly meetings between
teaching, learning, value to teaching, staf, liaison to
collaboration and decision learning, and exchange information
making through the administrative regarding IT technologies
enactment of the Digital requirements or training
Strategy.  Encourage development opportunities/areas of
and adaptive skills which
need amongst the staf
support current and
emerging technologies
Strengthen processes and  To foster a shared  To continue to use the
systems to support approach to budget collaborative budget
evidence-based decision preparation application template for
making, accountability and the creation of the school
governance to achieve our budget and to promote
priorities. the importance of open
and regular