Strategic Intent

Reach expresses our understanding of quality Catholic schooling and the system’s strategic intent in the Diocese of Parramatta.

Shaped by our understanding and appreciation of Catholic education as a holistic process, Reach is the result of ongoing and extensive planning, collaboration and professional dialogue with our system leaders. It is underpinned by contemporary educational theory and a rigorous practice of continuous improvement.

‘The school must begin from the principle that its educational program is intentionally directed to the growth of the whole person.’
(The Catholic School n 55)

Every one of our Catholic schools is challenged to offer a sound, contemporary education with the highest educational goals in a Christ-centred environment. In pursuing these educational aims and our beliefs of what it means to be truly human, the Catholic school shares in the evangelising mission of Church finding its expression in John 10:10:

I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

The opportunity for life-giving and life-changing encounters with the risen Christ must be the cornerstone of Catholic schools. The work we engage in as a system invites and challenges each of us to see and respond to the new possibilities for enhancing learning and teaching
and achieving quality outcomes. These are the educational aims of all good schools.

We have articulated the Church’s mission through Reach by our strategic intent. The intent guides the work of the system and is an ongoing commitment by every school.

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