Curriculum
St Laurence’s College offers a programme of Studies from Year 5 to 12 where the vision is a holistic education for each student that centers on “liberation for life to the full” (John 10:10).
The curriculum at St Laurence’s College is dynamic and provides experiences from which students can learn.
The College is committed to providing students with the academic and personal skills to equip them for life and to allow flexibility of career path. Students are encouraged to pursue a balanced general education that while it engages them at the level of their learning readiness; also challenges them to pursue excellence through endeavour, while acting with integrity and justice.
The curriculum at St Laurence’s College is dynamic and provides experiences from which students can learn.
The College is committed to providing students with the academic and personal skills to equip them for life and to allow flexibility of career path. Students are encouraged to pursue a balanced general education that while it engages them at the level of their learning readiness; also challenges them to pursue excellence through endeavour, while acting with integrity and justice.Teachers, parents and students work in partnership to promote a love of lifelong learning where the following attributes are pursued:
- Knowledge with deep understanding,
- Complex thinking,
- Creativity,
- Active investigation,
- Effective communication,
- Participation in a interdependent world, and
- Reflection and self-direction.
The curriculum at St Laurence’s College concerns itself with:
- Learning environments,
- Teaching methods,
- The resources provided by learning,
- The system of assessment,
- Relationships between staff and students, and
- Real life contexts.
The vision for Catholic Education is the facilitation of development based on the Christian life, expressed within the Catholic Tradition. Catholic Education is a ministry centered on Christ’s vision for humanity, focused on authentic human growth and given expression through principles of faith tradition, quality service and developmental excellence. It embraces a great tradition, covers the whole of life, is evidenced primarily in schools and is administered authentically. The outcomes of Catholic Education are seen holistically in people, relationships, communities, processes and structures.
It is these same characteristics that are reflected in the whole curriculum of the Catholic school, defined as the totality of the learning experiences embraced by the school. The distinctiveness of Catholic Education rests in this religious dimension, in which learners are supported as they grow within a faith tradition that offers a perspective of what it means to be authentically human.