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Every child. Every day.<br />
“It is not the strongest of<br />
the species that survives,<br />
nor the most intelligent<br />
that survives. It is the<br />
one most adaptable to<br />
change,” Charles Darwin.<br />
The Cathedral Grammar School, an<br />
integral part of the Christchurch<br />
educational landscape since 1881,<br />
has throughout its proud history<br />
accepted and grown with change<br />
all the while being attentive to its<br />
roots. This has been the exciting<br />
clear theme for our school over<br />
the past four years as we have<br />
refreshed and modernised our<br />
philosophy and approach to ensure<br />
we provide a leading education<br />
experience that prepares our<br />
students to thrive in a rapidly<br />
evolving world.<br />
Our goal is to nurture, to know<br />
and to grow every child, every<br />
day. In a country with ongoing<br />
unenviable teenage mental<br />
health statistics, our relationship<br />
focussed school has adopted a<br />
very clear and deliberate approach<br />
that provides an environment<br />
and culture that focuses on our<br />
students’ hearts as well as their<br />
heads. We are passionate about<br />
being a part of the drive for<br />
change and a shift in focus away<br />
from the stresses and strains we,<br />
as a nation, place on our young<br />
people. A focus that unfortunately<br />
results in New Zealand winning<br />
a race in which it is best to be<br />
last. As educationalists and as a<br />
school community, at Cathedral<br />
Grammar we believe in order for<br />
our students to be successful<br />
it is critical, and possible, to<br />
maintain and provide traditional<br />
expectations and high academic<br />
standards through a heart<br />
focussed, strengths based, holistic<br />
and wellbeing approach.<br />
What is success in <strong>2020</strong> and<br />
beyond? The World Economic<br />
Forum and the OECD provide a<br />
clear picture of the skills, qualities<br />
and dispositions that your children<br />
will require to thrive in the future<br />
and this has challenged the current<br />
education system. The traditional<br />
system has had a focus on the<br />
easily measurable areas of literacy,<br />
numeracy and science - skills and<br />
knowledge. The shift in recent<br />
times has seen these measures of<br />
success expanded to include the<br />
inclusion of capabilities and social<br />
action. Recognising the social,<br />
Nurture. Know. Grow.
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