• Students achieving at their personal best.
• Staff supported professionally in an excellent and extending learning environment with excellent facilities.
• Our community and global society benefiting from the educational programs and wider contributions of Woodvale Senior High School.

Our Purpose

• Our students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and to interact with others.
• Our students select, integrate and apply numerical and spatial concepts and techniques.
• Our students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.
• Our students select, use and adapt technologies.
• Our students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make decisions.
• Our students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.
• Our students understand and appreciate the physical, biological and technological world and have the knowledge, skills and values to make decisions in relation to it.
• Our students understand their cultural, geographic and historical contexts and have the knowledge, skills and values necessary for active participation in life in Australia.
• Our students interact with people and cultures other than their own and are equipped to contribute to and be very successful in the global community.
• Our students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others.
• Our students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.
• Our students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.
• Our students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly. 

Our Values

Learning

• We have a positive approach to learning and encourage lifelong learning, creating an enjoyable and safe environment that everyone looks forward to each day.
• We support and advance student learning based on our belief that all students have the capacity to learn.
• We support our teachers in their professional development in order to create positive, safe and exciting learning environments.
• We value leadership and define it as taking responsibility for one’s actions and having the care and courage to guide others.
• We value creativity and innovation and value using expression and intuition to find new ways or to develop new things.
• We value learning that includes us all participating and contributing as citizens in the wider community and in the global community.

Excellence

• We set and maintain high standards in dress, behaviour, creative and academic achievement.
• We use data to inform learning and create whole school initiatives to enable every student to achieve personal excellence.
• The standards and expectations set challenge all of us to achieve at our personal best.
• The pursuit of excellence in teaching and an orientation towards continuous improvement is an integral part of everything we do.

Equity

• We recognise the differing circumstances, abilities and needs of our students and are dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for all.
• We strive to create an inclusive, welcoming, safe learning environment where diversity is recognised and celebrated.
• Respect for oneself and for others, compassion and understanding of the diversity around us.

Care

• We treat individuals with care. 
• We value working in partnership with parents, carers and the wider community in providing a quality education for all our students.
• We value the importance of honesty, integrity and accountability in all activities and interactions