Excellence in 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.

High Expectations, Meaningful Growth

Underpinned by the Catholic Schools Broken Bay vision, St Leo’s Catholic College is committed to ensuring growth for all and embedding high expectations to enable success in learning for every student.

A Framework for Success

Developed collaboratively and aligned with our strategic priorities, the St Leo’s Teaching and Learning Framework encourages students to become competent, confident, Catholic-valued young people of conscience.

St Leo’s Teaching and Learning Framework

Skills for a Changing World

Through our framework, students build essential skills in:

• Collaboration
• Resilience
• Responsibility
• Independence

These skills prepare students to thrive both within and beyond the classroom.

Learning that Empowers

As a Catholic learning community, we are committed to teaching that is:

• Rigorous
• Informed
• Relational
• Empowering

Students are encouraged to think critically, apply knowledge in new contexts, and develop the capabilities needed to become lifelong learners.

Knowing Every Student

Our dedicated staff bring a wide range of experience and expertise, fostering the individual growth of each student. We recognise that strong relationships are central to a positive and successful learning experience.

Opportunities to Thrive

St Leo’s offers a broad curriculum and extensive co-curricular program, allowing every student to discover their talents and achieve their personal 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.