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As educators, we know more
now about how young people learn than ever before.
As a result, our
challenge in schools is to best meet the individual learning needs
of our young men and women to help lead and direct the changes
ahead in the 21st Century.
The extensive curriculum
offerings at Scotch Oakburn College are designed to cater for the
whole range of student abilities and are reviewed each year to
meet changing needs.
We focus on developing
strong literacy and numeracy skills, from the earliest years to
Grade 12.
In addition, we seek to
develop students who are inquiring and reflective thinkers and who
are effective and able communicators and problem-solvers. We want
our young people to become self-directed, well-balanced and
ethical in their thinking and values and who seek to become
responsible citizens valuing diversity and justice.
We also want our students
to become world contributors, eager to work responsibly to
maintain, protect and enhance local and global environments. Very
importantly, we seek to develop young people who are informed,
life-long learners.
Our learning community is
built on a Christian heritage and strong school traditions. The
values we espouse in learning are: grace, compassion, humility,
connectedness, resilience, achievement, creativity, integrity,
responsibility and equity.
More specific details of
learning at different stages can be found under Learning on this
website.
There are many different
measures of success in education, particularly at a school such as
Scotch Oakburn College, but we are very proud of our
TCE Results
which indicated that not only did our top student gain the
equal highest score in the State of Tasmania as well as in
Australia, but that students were able to gain tertiary entrance
scores to enable them to enter the University or TAFE course of
their choosing at institutions around Australia and overseas. |
