In planning programs, we take into account the wide and varied needs of children in our school.
We use contemporary curriculum guidelines including the Australian Curriculum. Within the curriculum we focus on how children learn by providing a contemporary pedagogy that incorporates the general capabilities, elements of positive education and other competencies.
The Australian Curriculum describes a learning entitlement for each Australian student that provides a foundation for successful, lifelong learning and participation in the Australian community.
The Australian Curriculum is used to design learning for English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography for Reception to Year 10.
Crossways is the religious education framework for South Australian Catholic Schools. This Framework is designed so that students will engage with their own worlds of meaning and make links with Catholicism as a believing, living, celebrating and praying religious Tradition.
General Capabilities
The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will assist students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century.
Literacy and Numeracy Capability
Literacy enables students to: access, understand, analyse and evaluate information and ideas, express thoughts and emotions; present ideas and opinions; and interact with others. All these skills are needed to engage with learning the Australian Curriculum.
Students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently across other learning areas at school and in their lives more broadly. Numeracy involves students in recognising and understanding the role of mathematics in the world and having the dispositions and capacities to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully.
ICT Capability
Students develop ICT capability as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively in all learning areas at school, and in their lives beyond school.
Critical and Creative Capability
Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.
Personal and Social Capability
Students develop personal and social capability as they learn to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively.
Ethical and Intercultural Understanding Capability
Students develop ethical understanding as they identify and investigate the nature of ethical concepts, values and character traits, and understand how reasoning can assist ethical judgment.
Students develop intercultural understanding as they learn to value their own cultures, languages and beliefs, and those of others. They learn to understand how personal, group and national identities are shaped, and the variable and changing nature of culture.
Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander priority provides opportunities for all learners to deepen their knowledge of Australia by engaging with the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. This knowledge and understanding will enrich their ability to participate positively in the ongoing development of Australia.
Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
This priority will ensure that students learn about and recognise the diversity within and between the countries of the Asia region. They will develop knowledge and understanding of Asian societies, cultures, beliefs and environments, and the connections between the peoples of Asia, Australia, and the rest of the world.
Sustainability
Education for sustainability develops the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary for people to act in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. It enables individuals and communities to reflect on ways of interpreting and engaging with the world. Sustainability education is futures-oriented, focusing on protecting environments and creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action.
Students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society. Literacy involves students in listening to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral, print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying language for different purposes in a range of contexts.
