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Our Report Card 2018-2019 OUR 2018-19 2018-19 REPORT Our Report Card CARD Our Vision Our Mission To learn, to lead, to serve; Our school seeks the excellence in all of discovering the promise us, with passion and compassion. We are a in our selves and the world. community shaped by the pursuit of truth and goodness, providing outstanding preparation for higher learning and for life. Recognition of Indigenous Peoples One of the four pillars of St. Michaels University School is respect. With this in mind, we acknowledge that our school rests in the heart of Straits Salish territory, a living culture with its own rites, ceremonies, and unfolding history. We honour the Esquimalt, Songhees, and WSÁNEĆ peoples – whose homelands we share and whom we recognize as our neighbours. Other headlines: A new policy of continuous enrolment has been researched and planned, ready for implementation in 2019-20. Our Senior Leadership Team has seen the most significant reorganization for over a decade. Andy Rodford has been appointed as Deputy Head of School. Rita Lord replaced Michael Murgatroyd who retired in December 2018 as our CFO. Richard Brambley has taken over from Kate Knight, who as Interim Director of Middle School provided an outstanding transition between long-standing Director Xavier Abrioux and Richard’s arrival. Adrienne Davidson has been appointed as Director of Advancement & Campaigns, with Shara Campsall as Assistant Director of Advancement. We have now geared up for the launch of a once-in-a 50-year capital campaign. Alexis Lang Lunn has taken over from Paul Leslie as Director of Admissions. Full enrolment. It is a wonderful legacy to Paul Leslie’s years as Director of Admissions that he and his team leave the school packed to the rafters. The school opened having welcomed the thousandth student for the first time in September 2018. We look set to start this school year with 1,013 students representing 49 nationalities. Healthy wait pools have been established at most key points of entry. We have 247 boarding students from 32 countries. Our policy of ‘diversification’ has recruited a rich talent pool. The Sun Centre which opened in August 2018 has now seen one full year of service. This outstanding facility has been a wonderful Message from point of congregation for both boarders and day students. The Howard Café has kept us all well-watered and sustained. New offices for University Counselling, Personal Counselling, Boarding the Head of School Services and meetings, have already proved to be a great success. We look forward to installing a further stained-glass window to I am thrilled to have this opportunity to report on my first year at the complete the ambitious project over the course of the fall. Our helm of the good ship SMUS. Over a year of ‘Looking, Listening and community rallied around our first major, new capital project in Learning’, I have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet thousands 15 years to raising just shy of $10 million in donations towards the of students, parents and associated members of our community. It Sun Centre. Under the dedicated leadership of Shara Campsall, has been a privilege to be welcomed by this vibrant and invigorating our Advancement operation was again successful. More than $2.1 family. I would like to begin by thanking the students who have been million was raised in 2018-19 for student programs, financial aid, unfailingly gracious in the warmth of their welcome, and for the advice facility upgrades and endowments. they have generously offered. I have been presented with many views Once again, we are deeply indebted to the support of the Parents’ and opinions ranging from weighty issues such as environmental Auxiliary. Having attended my first Parents’ Auxiliary Faculty and Staff sustainability, through to the transfer policy of the Toronto Raptors, Luncheon, I was blown away by the commitment of our parents to to why I should support the Seattle Seahawks in preference to the support our staff, in support of our students. In addition, this tireless Cleveland Browns. group of volunteers continues to raise considerable funds to benefit students in all schools and all grades; this past year the Parents’ This has been a year of foundation laying. No shortcuts. No quick fixes. Auxiliary raised and contributed more than $140,000 to the school. This has been a year of ground work, preparing the platform for our new strategic vision 2020-2030. There is no doubt that 2018-2019 will be remembered as an exceptionally successful year for SMUS’s students. Our graduates, as As part of ‘Looking, Listening and Learning’, I was delighted to meet you will see in this report, were offered $3 million in scholarships to individually, almost 200 faculty, staff and governors, to listen first- attend prestigious universities around the world. SMUS has built up an hand to their ideas as to how the school should move forward. impressive academic reputation over the decades. It is great to see that the Class of 2019 has done that reputation proud. We conducted the largest-ever consultation undertaken by a Canadian school, through independent, international consultant In conclusion, 2018 was a successful year of consultation, preparation RSAcademics. We reached out to almost 5,000 individuals, and significant achievement. The graduating Class of 2019 have certainly giving students, faculty, parents, alumni and Board Members, the ‘learned’, they have ‘served’ the school well and they move to broader opportunity to contribute their opinions. Although there was a horizons well equipped to ‘lead’, as life’s path beyond school takes them myriad of different views expressed, I am optimistic that we will forward. be able to identify key themes around which our whole school community can unite. We aim to launch our 2020-2030 Strategic Vivat! Plan on schedule from January 1, 2020. I look forward to reporting back on how this has gone this time next year. Mark Turner Head of School 2 OUR REPORT CARD 2018-19 St. Michaels University School Message from the Chair Designate of the Board of Governors I feel that it is a great privilege to have been elected as your Board Chair Auxiliary who have had another successful year of engagement and from October 24, 2019. Firstly, I must pay tribute to my predecessor Blair fundraising. We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who contributes to Hagkull who did such an excellent job of steering our Board and our our Advancement operation in a material way. With Adrienne Davidson school community, through a period of significant transition, linking the as our new Director of Advancement & Campaigns, we will be hoping Snowden years with the arrival of our new Head of School, Mark Turner, to boost participation rates to provide the funds to support the best in August 2018. possible education for our students. Traditionally, the main purpose of this report has been to review the year I should also like to thank retiring board member Mike Throne ’72 (2013- that has just passed. In this regard, I am delighted to record that by all 2019), as both an alumnus and past parent who has given so much of the key measures, the school has enjoyed great success. The graduating his time, and the benefit of his wisdom, in supporting our boarding Class of 2019 distinguished themselves exceptionally well, gaining community. As a boarder himself, Mike has been a strong advocate of some of our best AP scores since 2010, and winning a record number of the benefits of living within a boarding community. places and scholarships at leading universities around the world. With record enrolment and a strong financial foundation, the school can look One of the phrases that has been used in describing one of the broad forward with optimism. objectives of the strategic plan is ‘confident not complacent.’ SMUS is a special community that can be proud of its graduates and achievements The Head of School took for his theme ‘Looking, Listening and Learning’. over more than a century. That notwithstanding, it is important that In addition, our entire extended community went through the broadest we are well prepared for the challenges and opportunities presented reaching consultation ever undertaken by St. Michaels University by a fast changing and uncertain world. As we approach the launch of School. The aim was to identify a wide-range of opinions, inspiring what we hope will be an ambitious but achievable strategic plan, I look ideas, key issues and areas of consensus that can be built into our new forward to playing my part ensuring our school remains at the forefront strategic plan. We aim to launch the plan in January 2020. I am aware of education in Victoria, across British Columbia, and around the world. that this represents a great opportunity for our school to build on the momentum of the last few decades, and onwards into the future. I Vivat! would like to pay tribute to my fellow Board Members, who give so generously of their time as volunteers, to help to make our school an Timothy E. McGee, QC ever better learning environment for the benefit of our students. In Chair Designate, SMUS Society Board of Governors the same spirit of volunteering, we are most grateful to the Parents’ Community Surveys During the 2018-19 school year, SMUS undertook to survey our community with the aim of informing the creation of the 2020-30 Strategic Plan. A key component from Mark Turner’s mission of ‘Looking, Listening and Learning’ in his first year as Head of School, the surveys were designed to support the Board and Senior Leadership Team’s understanding of our areas of strength, and to put a microscope on where there could be opportunities for improvement.
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