Tag: Fa'avae

  • Fa’avae/Foundation – a journey

    For the past couple of years I have been working with the Fa’avae Team at Bishop Viard College. Fa’avae (which means foundation in Samoan) is the Year 7/8 cohort at the College; the kids who have left primary school and are transitioning from children to young people, and all that entails. Team: Fa’avae started with…

  • Every Good Service Deserves Strategy

    TL:DR:BM* *Bullet Me Schools are service delivery organisations. The services they deliver are education services. Often a strategic direction and the school objective setting is centred on the student, with parents/carers and ‘society’ as the audience. My experience with schools and through research is that, as with any complex organisation who understands what service is,…