Learning/Curriculum

St Patrick’s Primary School staff provide flexible environments and innovative learning opportunities for each student to be engaged, imaginative and reflective in their learning. We promote a culture of high expectations in learning, ensuring that all students gain the knowledge, skills and deep understanding required for future success.

In our St Patrick’s learning community, we believe that a partnership between families, community and parish is vital in developing a supportive, holistic learning environment for our students. We foster in our students the values necessary to meet the challenges in this dynamic and ever-changing world, strengthened by their Christian values. This enables us to guide our students to develop and recognise their full potential, guided by the Gospel teachings of our Catholic tradition.

Our engaging and inclusive curriculum focuses on developing students' depth of understanding of key skills needed to be adaptive, transfer learning to new contexts and prepare for learning throughout life.

Schooling in NSW is based on the mandatory NSW syllabuses for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The syllabuses are developed and endorsed by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA). 

St Patrick’s Primary School follows the approved syllabuses with the exception of Religious Education, which is approved by the Bishop of the Lismore Diocese.

Subjects are called Key Learning Areas (KLAs).

They are:

• English
• Mathematics
• Science and Technology
• Human Society and its Environments
• Personal Development Health and Physical Education
• Creative Arts
• Religious Education

As a Catholic school, Religious Education is both a Key Learning Area and integral to our way of life.