© Brisbane Catholic Education, Sts Peter and Paul's School Bulimba (2022)
Improving educational outcomes for all young Australians is central to the nation's social and economic prosperity and will position young people to live fulfilling, productive and responsible lives. The Alice Springs Education (Mparntwe) Declaration has two distinct but interconnected goals:
Goal 1: The Australian education system promotes excellence and equity
Goal 2: All young Australians become:
- confident and creative individuals
- successful lifelong learners
- active and informed members of the community.
OUR BELIEFS and COMMON PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LEARNING and TEACHING
Our beliefs about teaching and learning socially at school, student behaviour supports, and responding to students to meet their needs, unify us and direct our actions.
At Sts Peter and Paul’s, curriculum design and delivery is grounded in the Alice Springs Declaration and is mindful of the declaration’s goals. The school promotes excellence and engagement by supporting students to achieve very high standards through effective structures and evidence informed teaching strategies.
The general capabilities, a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum, encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions needed to assist our children to live and work successfully. At Sts Peter and Paul’s School our motto is ‘Learning Together for Life’. We believe that everyone can be successful. A great learner is a student who is engaged in their learning and is developing the capacities to be collaborative, reflective, creative, organised, resilient, independent, curious, thoughtful and determined.
Achieving these education goals is the responsibility of Australian Governments and the education community in partnership with young Australians, their families and carers and the broader community. With this declaration in mind, at Sts Peter and Paul's School students engage in the following Key Learning Areas from the Australian Curriculum and Brisbane Catholic Education:
- Religious Education
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
- Health and Physical Education (HPE: Personal, Social and Community Health)
- The Arts
- Technologies