The Prince Albert Catholic School Division will enter the new school year at the start of a new Strategic Plan.
The board approved their new four-year Strategic Plan in June after over a year of work and feedback.
The previous Strategic Plan ran from 2023 until 2026. Education Director Lorel Trumier said the division is excited to enter a new era while celebrating the division’s 140th anniversary.
She said that the theme ‘Christ is Alive’ really connects and bridges the concept of their anniversary into the future.
“(It’s) the recognition that every person is created in an image of God and that we as people, as staff and students and families, are to be respected and to be supported and to do the best we can. All that we do should be life giving and the work we do in classrooms should be to support our children to move forward in their lives.
“We’re going to be centered on inspiring a God-centered life,'” she added.
“We’re going to work on ensuring that there’s a respect for all. We’re going to work on making sure that our children have a sense of belonging.”
The Strategic Plan covers the years 2026-2030 and will officially come into effect at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year.
Trumier said the Faith priority would be aligned with the five marks of Catholic Education.
“We’re witnessing to our faith in the process (and) doing things for other people, doing things for the greater good, doing things so that it’s meaningful to the relationships and people around us and serving others. Those core values are woven in the entire strategic plan.”
The new plan has five priority areas including Catholic Faith Dimension, Learning priorities in academics, connections, transitions and relationships
Trumier said they’re proud to launch the plan. She said their goal is to build faith and improve student outcomes.
She explained that the Strategic Plan outlines instructional and curriculum milestones to have students achieve to the best of their abilities. Connections, transitions and relationships is based around moving between grades and finishing high school and going forward into work life.
“We’re going to focus on our connections, relationships and our transitions with our students,” she said. “(We’ll) try to build mental health and well-being and our student capacity to support their own self in those domains.”
From a Truth and Reconciliation standpoint, Trumier said will use Inspiring Success, a Ministry of Education policy aimed at supporting Indigenous students.
“We’re going to work to actualize the vision of the calls to action for Truth and Reconciliation and inspire success among our First Nations and Metis students as a special priority action that we will do,” Trumier said.
Trumier said that all of the goals are attainable and come from previous work in the areas in prior strategic plans. She emphasized that the plan was built through feedback from staff, SCCs and aligned to the new provincial plan.
“This was not built in a room with four people. This was structured and reviewed and built with all of our staff, students and parents had the opportunities to provide feedback,” she said. “We’ve had lots of eyes on it from different perspectives and tried to build the best plan.” michael.oleksyn@paherald.sk.ca
