Teaching and Learning

In 2022 our focus in teaching and learning was on updating curriculum, ensuring greater clarity on connections to intercultural awareness, inquiry pedagogies, and approaches to learning.

This complex process was a collaborative exercise encompassing our IB, SACE, and Learning Area Leaders, which has resulted in some redesigned units driving student exploration of global context, and an assessment process that incorporates checkpoints of learning rather than relying on a final summative grade.

Investment in a Director of Learning Enrichment who, together with their team, has successfully refined our inclusive education arrangements, has led to positive outcomes for students with diverse backgrounds and learning profiles, including students with a disability, gifted students, and EALD learners. Intentional, responsive and targeted support, along with collaborative monitoring and review of individual progress, has fostered student success.

The IB Programme

At all 3 levels of the IB programme - Primary, Middle and Diploma - students develop strong academic, social and emotional characteristics as they:

• are encouraged to think independently and drive their learning,

• build a sense of identity and cultural awareness,

• develop their curiosity and spirit of discovery and enjoyment of learning,

• become equipped with the skills to learn, individually or collaboratively, and apply these qualities across a broad range of areas,

• participate in programmes of education that can lead them to some of the highest ranking universities around the world,

• become culturally aware through the development of a second language, and

• engage with people in an increasingly globalised, rapidly changing world.

In addition to our excellent Year 12 results in 2022, students from Year 1 to Year 11 regularly achieved excellent IB scores of 6 or 7 (equivalent to an ‘A’), and 4 or 5 (equivalent to a ‘B’).