LOXTON Primary School has welcomed its first school motto after months of deliberation.
Principal Sally Wright said it had been 12 months in the making, but Loxton Primary had finally landed on ‘dream, believe, learn and achieve’ as its vision.
“It’s been quite a process,” she said.
“Governing council and our staff worked through putting together key words, and then we started putting them into phrases and building them up.
“We then looked through what the most popular choices were around what was going to work for our school community at Loxton, and got the top four (after) lots of consultation, communication, discussion and collaboration.”
Ms Wright said the top four choices were then put to a vote to the students to ensure they had a say in the final outcome.
“I put together a PowerPoint that I worked on with all of the students from year four up through to year seven, so they could all have some input.
“I gave them the opportunity to give feedback and to have a vote from the top four.
“It then went back to our governing council and staff again, and we’re now finally at a point where we’ve got a finished vision, which is very exciting for us.”
Previously the primary school had put its focus into the school’s values of belonging, caring, learning, persisting and respecting.
Ms Wright, who has been principal of the school for two years, said while the school values were important, they did not have a vision to underpin them, which was how the process came about.
“We had strong values as a school, but we didn’t a vision to kind of underpin it,” she said.
“We know how we do it through our school values, but it is the what – what do we want our students to achieve, what do we want the students at Loxton Primary School to do and aim for when they finish?
“I see the vision as telling us what we want students at the end of the time at Loxton Primary School to be aiming for, and what we want them to be able to do and work towards.
“It’s come out as a nice, short, sharp and easy to remember vision.”
Ms Wright said now the school had its vision, it would be keen to implement it with students.