Providing quality education
cannot be over-stated. Education is nation forming and must be responsive to
the changing demands of our global and national context and condition.
Young people, more than ever,
need to acquire not only knowledge, but skills of creativity and resilience.
What our young people learn and how they learn it has direct consequence on
each individual’s potential to be engaged, productive and happy in an increasingly
globalised world.
The higher the level of
education, being the measure of success of students in the “what” and “how” has
a direct impact on their potential earning capacity in their post-school lives,
and the extent they are able to take part in and contribute to the wealth and
wellbeing of a nation. State schools provide education for the majority of
Australia’s young people.
Mount Gravatt High strives to
provide a curriculum that is relevant to the ideal of “success for every
child”. At Mount Gravatt High our curriculum offerings in secondary schooling
years 7 to 12 reflects the “Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for
Young Australians” (December, 2008). The two goals are:
1. Australian
schooling promotes equity and excellence.
a. This goal provides that access to high
quality schooling, free from discrimination
of any kind, is built upon broader cultural knowledge.
b. Community partnership and high
expectations for learning outcomes, an appreciation of diversity, and providing
challenging and stimulating learning opportunities for students to explore and
build on their gifts and talents should be evident.
2.
All young Australians become:
a. Successful learners. Be active learners who are:
a. literate and numerate and productive users
of ICTs,
b. able to think logically, creatively and
resourcefully to solve problems across a range of disciplines,
c. students are to make sense of their world
and their place in it,
d. to discover, create and forge a pathway
towards further education, training or employment,
e. make informed decisions and be motivated
to reach their potential.
b. Confident and creative individuals.
a. have a sense of self-worth, optimism,
enterprise, values, knowledge and skills to establish and maintain healthy and
fulfilling lives,
b. be confident to pursue further education
and qualifications; prepare themselves for other life roles and accept
responsibility for their actions.
c. Active and informed citizens.
a. act with moral integrity, appreciate
cultural diversity and understand and value indigenous cultures,
b. committed to democratic principles,
communicate across cultures and work for the common good,
c. sustaining and improving natural and
social environments as responsible global and local citizens.
Mount Gravatt High
faithfully presents both national and State curriculum authority subjects and
learning priorities in the Junior and Senior phases of secondary schooling
reflecting these goals:
• Curriculum connected to co and
extra-curricular learning in four foundation pillars; Academic, The Arts,
Sport & Community
• To better define both relevance and
meaning of what our curriculum entails, subjects are gathered into categories
of learning to ‘make sense of’ the scope and sequence of learning from Years 7
to 12 Students have ‘core’ (required) and ‘elective’ (options) subjects offered
in the following categories:
• Language and communications
• Science, Technology, Engineering &
Mathematics (S.T.E.M)
• Creative Arts & Industries
• Health Sciences
• Social Science and Enterprise
• The range and timing of subject offerings
aims to provide essential or core learning, and
• Phasing in of electives that allow
students to self-select specializations, choose complementary options and
personalise and pursue pathways through and beyond schooling
• Curriculum content is assured to include
authentic learning, higher order thinking, differentiation and creativity
Ross Robertson
Principal