The Learning and Teaching at St Margaret Mary’s aims to develop critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration skills.
At St Margaret Mary’s, our Learning and Teaching is guided by our Vision for Instruction and Vision for Engagement, ensuring every student experiences high-quality, inclusive and purposeful learning.
We are committed to developing students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration, while nurturing strong learner identity. Our students are supported to see themselves as capable, lifelong learners who can set meaningful goals, reflect on their progress and celebrate their own achievements and those of others.
Learning at St Margaret Mary’s is grounded in a faith-centred, knowledge-rich and authentic curriculum, where learning experiences are carefully designed to be engaging, purposeful and responsive to the diverse strengths and needs of our learners. Through our Vision for Engagement, we prioritise positive relationships, high expectations, inclusive classroom practices and a strong sense of belonging so that every student is known, valued and supported to participate fully in learning.
Our instructional approach is underpinned by the MACS Vision for Instruction, drawn from MACS 2030: Forming Lives to Enrich the World, and is informed by contemporary research and cognitive science into how students learn most effectively. This ensures teaching is explicit, well-sequenced and responsive to evidence of learning.
We use multiple sources of data to monitor progress and refine teaching practice, and our evidence shows that students at St Margaret Mary’s are thriving spiritually, academically, socially and emotionally. We hold high expectations for every learner and every teacher, and we continually strengthen our professional knowledge, test new thinking against evidence, and refine our practice to ensure the highest standards of learning, engagement and wellbeing for all students.