The staff at Holy Family Mount Waverley continually refer to research, evidence based approaches to enhance learning for each student in our care.
Our Religious Education Program is taught by classroom teachers who are supported by our Religious Education Leader and Parish Priest. Classes attend Friday morning Mass a couple of times a term.
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We promote a culture of knowledge based and inquiry based learning ensuring that all students gain the knowledge, skills and deep understandings required for future success. Planning is supported by OCHRE resources.
We are dedicated to explicit and quality teaching that integrates Digital Technologies, engaging students in ways not previously possible.
New learning and teaching possibilities are created, enhancing achievement and extending interactions with local and global communities.
The learning spaces are of the highest quality and our learning environment affirms the dignity of each person where learning is lifelong and personal.
In our Holy Family Mount Waverley learning community of staff, students and parents, we aim to meet the needs of all students by providing an inclusive environment which develops students intellectually, physically, socially and spiritually leading them to a love of learning. We strive to create successful learners who are empowered to be creative, confident and responsible citizens who positively engage with and contribute to society.
Our curriculum is designed to engage students in a knowledge based curriculum to develop deep understandings about themselves, others and the world.
We build learning relationships within the local and global community and create authentic opportunities for students to learn from and with others. Students spend time with parishioners, nursing home residents and kindergarten children.
We provide learning experiences which enable students to take responsibility for themselves and to make a commitment to authentic action. Therefore we promote learning and teaching that strengthens engagement, independence, collaboration, innovation and success.
Our knowldge based, engaging and inclusive curriculum focuses on developing students' depth of understanding of core concepts and the interdisciplinary knowledge and the skills needed to be adaptive, to transfer learning to new contexts and to prepare for learning throughout life.
We offer a comprehensive curriculum with a high priority given to literacy and numeracy.
Our Literacy and Numeracy programs are designed to maximise each students’ outcomes, ensuring they achieve personal success. Ongoing assessments are used to inform teachers’ planning and target students’ learning.
Our school has implemented the 'structured literacy' approach based on the Science of Reading and Learning. It is pleasing to see how quickly students pick up the sound/letter relationships and these will be revisited throughout the year to increase memory retention.
The Tier 2 Reading Intervention Program (MultiLit) is offered for students who require assistance with decoding.
Holy Family uses the following programs to support the teaching and learning of Spelling Prep to Year 6. The whole school engages in this explicit teaching at the same time each morning.
Students are invited to undertake ICAS assessments, Maths Olympiad and RoboCup.
We have specialist teachers in the areas of LOTE (Auslan), Performing Arts, Physical Education, STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) and Visual Arts.
Holy Family offers the following opportunities onsite -