Junior School

In the Junior School, our broad and balanced curriculum focuses equally on academic, spiritual, emotional, social, and physical growth to develop well-rounded young people.

We continue to motivate young minds to be inquisitive and imaginative at every opportunity, cultivate a love for learning, and foster children’s emerging awareness of compassion for those around them.

The Junior School strives to develop in our students, practices and principles that will guide them for years to come. This includes teaching children how to learn, as well as focusing on learning itself. With an emphasis on building learning assets, our students are taught to question, communicate, research and collaborate in order to unlock their learning potential.

The curriculum has a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy, a focus on Religious Education and exploration of faith, and a focus on prosocial education. The curriculum is challenging, contemporary, and child-centred, drawing on the characteristics of Jesuit education.

Students experience the support of specialist teachers in the areas of Science, Digital & Design Technologies (robotics), Art, Music, Physical Education, Modern Language (Mandarin), and Library. There is also a strong Inclusive Education Team that monitors students’ learning and conducts a large number of programs that cater for a range of needs. The team also provides enriching educational provision to extend students of high intellectual potential.

Our school is an active community in which children thrive on their sense of belonging. Our nurturing environment fosters individual care for each child through strong teacher student relationships, cross-age buddy system and supportive wellbeing framework. In the students’ final year in the Junior School, a transition program helps prepare them for the move into the middle years at the Senior School in Athelstone.

The Junior School environment encourages students to discover a love of learning, a desire to achieve personal excellence, the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that support them to navigate and contribute to a changing and complex world.