Enabling Students to progress and realise their full potential is at the heart of everything we do. Through the distinctive, sincere and continuous practice of Christian love, service and humility, our college provides students with the opportunity to develop and display a high moral standard.
Our students are challenged to strive to achieve excellence in all areas of the curriculum by reaching their full potential, having confidence in who they are as Christian individuals and becoming active participants in both the Church and Australian communities they are a part of.
We encourage our students to develop skills in Coptic Orthodox studies, tapping into their heritage to grow as effective and reflective learners. The deeply integrated curriculum aims to enhance the learning experience of each student by applying global concepts to everyday life experiences.
Our school curriculum is underpinned by the values that are dear to our school. The curriculum is how the school achieves its objective of educating children in the knowledge, skills and understanding that they need to lead fulfilling lives.
We have based our curriculum on the below values:
Each student in the Primary School is individually assessed and catered for according to their individual needs. This is called an ILP (Individual Learning Plan).
An ILP identifies the student’s specific learning expectations and outlines how the school will address these expectations through appropriate accommodations, program modifications and/or alternative programs as well as specific instructional and assessment strategies.
The learning program provided for each student is modified based on the results obtained through continuous assessment and evaluation. Our teachers work closely with parents and liaise with trained professionals, to maximise each child’s potential.
We aim to work in partnership with our parents to provide the highest quality education outcomes for all of our children. We welcome your involvement and will encourage you to take an active role in your child’s education.
You will receive regular communication about your child’s progress. Parents will also be consulted and kept informed of all of the schools' developments. We also provide weekly opportunities for parents to speak to their class teacher at the end of the school day.
Primary School students are encouraged to develop their leadership skills and to aspire to special positions of responsibility. The Primary School Captains, House Leaders and School Representative Council (SRC) provide invaluable leadership and service opportunities to their peers and the community.
The Spalding Method is a total phonetic based language arts approach providing explicit, sequential, multisensory instruction in handwriting, spelling, writing, listening, reading decoding and comprehension, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary. Starting in Infants Stage 1, it develops critical thinking skills applicable across the curriculum, and it enables teachers to plan lessons based on continuous assessment of individual needs.
The Spalding Method consists of four elements
The Mathematics Program is one we at St Mark’s College are duly proud of. Curriculum with content is differentiated across each stage within a spiral curriculum style, whilst also meeting the individual needs of each of our students.
St Mark’s College is affiliated with the following School Sporting bodies at the Primary level, thus providing a diverse range of opportunities at the representation level.
IPSSO is an Independent Primary Schools Sports Organisation that we compete in weekly throughout the year for Years 3-6 students. Sports in this Association include Cricket, Basketball, Soccer, Netball, Newcombe Ball, Softball and Tee ball.
Our Primary School also has annual carnivals including Swimming, Athletics and Cross Country carnivals conducted within and also through IPSSO levels.
Students then selected from those carnivals compete at ASISSA (All Suburbs Independent School Sports Association) level. At ASISSA there are between 15-20 Independent schools that come to compete against one another with their elite athletes.
At St Mark’s we also cater for our K-2 students and our Years 3-6 students who are not involved in an IPSSO team by organising clinics such as Gymnastics, Aussie Hoops, AFL, NRL, and Cricket. We also have a swimming program that is organised for all K-6 students in Term 4.
Every student is given many opportunities to foster their sporting talents and harness growth within their sporting capabilities.
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