Reflections of Havergal: 1994-2019

It took a year to elicit and collate observations and ideas from the whole Havergal community through workshops, focus groups and surveys, and the responses were a source of great inspiration for the committee of governors, administrators, faculty and parents charged with writing the plan. The framework they created reflected a vision of the school based on four core values: integrity, inquiry, compassion and courage. The plan, released early in 2016, builds on and further refines the key concepts of self-efficacy and global capability at the heart of A Culture of Capability 2009–14 . The current plan, Havergal 2020: Our Vision is Limitless , emphasizes lifelong learning and the development of self-knowledge. It also reframes in powerfully positive terms the unique needs of girls at different developmental stages, seeing a deep understanding of these distinct needs as key to the enrichment of the program.

Strategic Plan 2016–20

Havergal’s 11th principal, Helen-Kay Davy, did not have much time to settle into her new role before she took on the formidable task of guiding the school in a new strategic planning process. As has been the school’s custom since its centennial year, the planning process took Havergal’s values as its starting point. However, as Mrs. Davy in noted in her article “Focusing on Our Values” in the Spring 2016 issue of Torch , [w]e had a mission statement, but we needed to make sure it still reflected the true ethos of our school. We had a list of values, but they had not been examined in a long time. So we started a process to get these key messages working together.

Stratetic Plan 2016–20: Havergal 2020: Our Vision is Limitless.

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