The Learning and Teaching at St Margaret Mary’s aims to develop critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration skills.
Our approach supports students to see themselves as lifelong learners, to set personal goals and to celebrate their own and their peers’ successes. We achieve this by providing a faith-centered, authentic curriculum in which learning tasks are engaging, purposeful, varied and contemporary in their delivery.
Our contemporary academic approach is underpinned by current research into the best ways to develop children’s’ learning and understanding across a broad range of topics. Our data indicates our students are thriving spiritually, academically, socially and emotionally as we embrace the MACS – Vision For Instruction. This is drawn from the strategic plan MACS 2030: Forming Lives to Enrich the World. Grounded in rich cognitive science, Vision for Instruction identifies the most effective teaching methods supported by evidence of their positive impact on student outcomes. We have high expectations for each and every one of our learners and teachers. We continually develop our own knowledge, remain current with educational standards of excellence and test any new thinking to ensure we are delivering the best possible learning formats for our students.
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