Building Our School's Future

FUTURE READY: THE 2024-2026 STRATEGIC PLAN

"What do we want the Kinross Wolaroi experience to be in the future?"

For most of 2023, the school worked on developing a plan to catalyse both strategic and imaginative thinking about a common vision for the next chapter of Kinross Wolaroi's strategic direction. Our full range of stakeholders played an active role in evolving a strategy, employing a process of deep listening and Appreciative Inquiry.

The question we asked ourselves was: "What will Kinross Wolaroi look like if its best qualities are amplified and developed? What do we want the Kinross Wolaroi experience to be in the future?"

Deeply Researched

Our discovery period included ten workshops involving every level of the organisation and twenty-one interviews conducted with staff, parents, students, and alumni. This consultation process was an opportunity for our stakeholders to candidly share their views through an exploration of their lived experience.

Ultimately, we outlined a strategy to meet the needs of our students that is responsive to both their current and future needs, while enhancing the sustainability of a great school in which our community has deep roots and investment.

Four Drivers for Action

The Strategic Plan 2024-2026 identifies four drivers for action – Focus Areas – over the coming three years: The Student Experience, The Staff Experience, Community Engagement, and Sustainability. It is designed to propel focused and deliverable strategic change over a compact timeframe. The four Focus Areas provide insight into how Kinross Wolaroi intends to move towards the future with courage, commitment, resilience, inclusivity, and respect. They will provide a framework for the development of plans that will be reported on annually to our community.

The need for courageous, collaborative, and evidence-informed leadership underpins the plan, with a focus on the development of a values-driven and thriving school climate.

Student Experience Focus

Our Student Experience Focus provides a rich, rigorous, and diverse educational experience that readies students to thrive in the face of life's challenges. Our students will be independent, motivated, resilient, and creative learners, respectful of their own and others' wellbeing.

Staff Experience Focus

Our Staff Experience Focus commits us to developing a school climate that connects, energises, and empowers our staff. Developing culture and leadership will be a focus of our efforts, to ensure our staff are encouraged, valued, and supported.

Community Engagement Focus

The Community Engagement Focus commits us to engage, inform, and celebrate our community, whose support underpins success in every aspect of our school's endeavours. We will foster connections among our families; we will have a renewed approach to supporting our alumni; and we will instigate a new, incorporated Foundation to foster a philanthropic culture for those who wish to give back and be a part of our future success.

Sustainability Focus

Finally, the Sustainability Focus recognises that we are stewards of this great school, with a responsibility to ensure its future. Our goal is to achieve a sustainable business model, capable of providing infrastructure that will inspire the great teaching required for our students to achieve their best individual outcomes. In making the 2024-2026 Strategic Plan, we have updated our Vision, developed a powerful Diversity Statement, and – for the first time – created a Graduate Profile. The Graduate Profile is an aspirational description of the attributes we believe will equip our students to approach life with courage, pursue their dreams, and contribute to their communities.

We believe the young people our school produces should be authentic, adaptable, empathetic, collaborative, creative, and independent – and we'll be designing learning experiences to foster these attributes.

This is a special time to be part of Kinross Wolaroi – it is a place where something special is happening. We have the best teachers, committed leaders, an open and kind culture, and the best boarding school in Australia.

What makes Kinross Wolaroi School so remarkable and such a transformational personal journey for our students is that we offer the most comprehensive school experience.

Our students have amazing opportunities to stretch, grow, and try new things – to do things they have never done before and to learn a lot about themselves on the way.

By building on this strength, Kinross Wolaroi School firms its place as the most outstanding regional school in Australia. We invite you to be a part of this transformation.