Homepage Learning & Teaching Junior School Curriculum Reception to Year 6 We want our students to develop their God-given potential to its fullest capacity. We achieve this by providing a challenging, stimulating, child-centred curriculum. Students are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning within a caring Christian environment, where they know they are valued, feel safe to extend themselves and take risks. Our curriculum reflects process as well as content. The curriculum strives to develop within students a love of learning, a desire to achieve personal excellence, deep understanding, and the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to take their place as responsible global citizens who have been called by God to be all they can for the well-being of human kind. Given this, our curriculum is underpinned by the following beliefs: all children are curious and capable of learningall children make meaning and express themselves in a myriad of waysmaking mistakes and reflecting on one’s learning are central to developing understanding, knowledge, skills and right attitudeslearning experiences and the curriculum should engage and develop the heart, mind, body and willa high quality curriculum that documents clearly what we want the children to know, do, understand and valueDigital Technologies is incorporated across all Key Learning Areas so that students are taught how to use those technologies as learning toolsall Key Learning Areas are linked rather than viewed and taught as isolated disciplines, andthe curriculum seeks to prepare students not only for what they need to know and do today, but in the future.Being able to think critically, logically and creatively is central to a Jesuit education and thus, the teaching of thinking skills in context, is mandatory; it permeates our entire curriculum. Key Learning Areas The Junior School curriculum is centred on nine Key Areas of Learning which are supported and nurtured by Special Programs and co-curricular activities. The Key Learning Areas: Religious EducationDesign and Digital TechnologiesEnglishHealth and Physical EducationHumanities and Social Sciences (History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship)Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)MathematicsScienceThe Arts: Visual Art, Music, Drama and Dance Specialist Areas The Junior School provides specialist teaching in a number of subject areas, each in a specialist facility. Among these are featured: Art Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)LibraryMusicPhysical EducationDesign and Digital TechnologiesScience The Science of Reading At Saint Ignatius' College, we are committed to implementing evidence-based teacher practices and programs. In our Reception to Year 3 classrooms, we use the Science of Reading approach as part of our Literacy program. This is to ensure that students develop the literacy skills they need to become lifelong learners. We have created a video to illustrate what we do. Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. Albert Einstein