Director of Teaching and Learning – Mrs Robyn Menkes
St Leo’s Catholic College is a comprehensive high school offering a broad curriculum. The College curriculum covers Stages 4, 5 and 6, Years 7 – 12.
St Leo’s Catholic College provides a high standard of education that promotes the academic, spiritual, personal, social and physical development of each student. Our school is committed to excellence in all areas of education and to the pursuit of learning as a lifelong experience.
St Leo’s Catholic College offers a broad curriculum that seeks to:-
- foster and challenge the individuality, creativity, initiative and ability of all students.
- provide structures that enable students to study in the areas and levels most appropriate to their abilities, needs and interests.
The College emphasises:
- the acquiring of skills and attitudes necessary for the organisation of knowledge in such a way that concepts and phenomena are adequately explained and their usefulness enhanced – through an integration of skills, processes and content;
- that learning is a human endeavour and that the way in which it relates to people is of fundamental importance – through the incorporation of Christian and Catholic values;
- the importance of meeting the needs of the individual – through ability groupings, differentiated curriculum and strategies that cater for individual learning styles;
- the necessity for independent learning strategies – through integrated, sequenced activities designed to build learning skills;
- the responsibility all teachers have as teachers of literacy and numeracy – through specific strategies for the development of literacy and numeracy;
- the responsibility all teachers have in supporting and implementing information, communication and learning technologies – through specified strategies for incorporating appropriate technologies.
Key Learning Areas
All core subjects and a wide range of electives approved by the New South Wales Board of Studies are offered in the following Key Learning Areas: Religion, English, Mathematics, Science, Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE), Technology and Applied Studies (TAS), Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE), Languages and Creative Arts.
Booklist - Year 12, 2010
Click on the link for the Year 12, 2010 booklist
Yr12 Booklist 2010.pdf