Teaching and Learning
St Leo’s is an award-winning school acknowledged for teaching excellence. We provide an engaging and challenging environment to learn, with a focus on promoting student growth. Underpinned by the Catholic Schools Broken Bay vision, St Leo’s Catholic College aims ‘ensure growth for all and embed high expectations to enable success in learning for all.
Developed collaboratively and aligning with our strategic objectives to ‘embed high expectations’ and ‘ensure growth for all’, our St Leo’s Teaching and Learning Framework is designed to encourage learners to strive towards becoming ‘competent, confident, Catholic-valued young people of conscience.’
Through this framework, St Leo’s learners develop skills in the areas of collaboration, resilience, responsibility and independence. As a Catholic learning community, we are dedicated to principles of teaching and learning that are rigorous, informed, relational and empowered: Students are taught to think critically, apply knowledge to new situations, and develop the skills needed to become lifelong learners able to adapt and thrive in our ever-changing world.
Our dedicated staff bring a diverse range of experience and expertise to foster the individual growth of each student. We know that relationships are imperative to a student’s experience with learning and school. We offer a wide-ranging curriculum and extra-curricular program to ensure all students can find talents and be their best at the College.
Teaching and Learning Programs
While our academic results are consistently strong, we embrace a diversity of student capabilities and provide academic challenges and support for different learning styles, rates and abilities including:
- Vocational Education and Training (VET) subjects
- Learning Diversity/Support, and
- Our unique Community Tutoring Program
Our St Leo’s Growth Domains
At St Leo’s, we are passionate about the holistic development of your child. We focus on developing the whole person by ensuring a balanced, diverse experience and development of our students across a range of areas we call our St Leo’s Growth Domains, covering the following aspects of every student –
- Spiritual
- Academic
- Cultural
- Environmental
- Social/Emotional, and
- Physical
All learning opportunities at St Leo’s flow through and are formed within these Growth Domains. You will find the six Growth Domains reflected in all aspects of College life and highlighted all around our campus.
Our Growth Domains ensure that when our students leave the College, we have holistically prepared them to be the very change they wish to be in the world.
