Kindergarten-Year 5

Kindergarten - Year 5

The Primary School (Santa Maria del Monte) provides quality education in a caring and supportive Christian faith community.  The curriculum is student centred, dynamic and diverse in order to respond to student needs.  It aims to develop in students skills of independent learning and critical thinking in a cooperative learning environment.  In educating students, we lead them to personal excellence in all things, to develop a broad range of interests and talents, to develop strong leadership skills and to be proactive in promoting justice in their world.  We provide:

  • Early intervention, evidenced through the Reading Recovery program and specialised Kindergarten programs
  • Differentiation, learning support and gifted education for individual needs
  • Best practice in literacy and numeracy education
  • Diverse and multiple opportunities for students to engage in cocurricular activities to develop their gifts and interests
  • Trained specialist teachers in the Key Learning Areas of Physical Education (K-5), Music (K-5) and Italian (3-5)
  • The curriculum follows the State standard framework of outcomes.

The  programs are exciting, innovative, engaging and meaningful to the students and are delivered to the students in a beautiful and stimulating learning environment. Teaching and learning are well supported by high quality personnel, resources and facilities. Our assessment practices and data gathering show that the students make progress and achieve success.

Key Learning Areas

  • Religious Education
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science and Technology
  • Human Society and its Environment
  • Creative and Practical Arts
  • Personal Development Health and Physical Education
  • LOTE-Italian (Yrs 3-5)