Senior School

Burgmann Anglican School is committed to providing an educational environment that challenges and inspires each child to achieve personal potential in intellectual, ethical, aesthetic, emotional, social and physical development. The School is committed to its belief that children and young people are unique individuals created by God with their own strengths, weaknesses, gifts and needs. We live out this belief by valuing each individual student and by continuing to build the School's culture of respect, fairness, caring, compassion and service. In the Senior School, staff continue to support students as they continue their journey through adolescence and into their early adulthood.

As a Senior School we need to respond to the changing needs of our students, taking into account their increasing maturity, as well as their greater need and ability to be independent and to make life decisions for themselves. We want to continue to engage students in their own learning, building on their Middle School experiences, and encouraging them to further develop as resilient individuals who value community and understand their roles of service within it. While it is important that we prepare students for their ACT Year 10 and Year 12 Certificates, this is done in a context that values reflection and spiritual growth; where success is measured by more than academic results.

The Senior School structure reflects a more traditional high school model in terms of its daily organisation, with students being responsible for moving from one class to the next according to their individual timetable. After exploring many different areas of learning in Middle School, Senior School students have the opportunity to make informed decisions about their strengths and weaknesses to pursue areas of personal interest and talent through the elective program. Within the classroom, the learning and teaching practices will promote a focus on skill development as well as knowledge acquisition. In Senior School we endeavour to build on the experiences and learning opportunities which our Middle School offers. The Senior School continues to value and include negotiation as a fundamental element of curriculum and decision-making. It will, however, implemented in different ways and in different contexts. Other elements of Middle Schooling that we continue to develop include differentiation of the curriculum, medium to long term research or project-based learning, and authentic assessment.