SENIOR SCHOOL
Catalyst:
change by name and by nature
The American author and Professor Dr Leo
Buscaglia once wrote, “Change is the end
result of all true learning”. As a school we
hope to bring about positive changes in our
students through their learning experiences
that will see them grow in self-confidence,
develop their unique abilities and talents and
bring about a broader and more considered
view of the world that they will enter into
and hopefully help to shape in the future.
From a junior secondary perspective, over
the past five years our Catalyst curriculum
has challenged students in their thinking and
done so in a way that we believe best suits all
boys’ academic needs, including their varied
preferences for learning. An underpinning
tenet of the program has been to offer
students significant choice in what they
learn. The Catalyst Elective Learning banks
have presented our boys with a wide array
of discipline-based course opportunities that
they choose to study, and in doing so come
to understand more accurately what they
enjoy and what they are good at. We believe
that it is these two criteria, although quite
elementary by nature, that are the key factors
which parents and their sons should take into
account when considering what to study in
their more senior years of schooling.
However, the process of change is not solely
confined to the growth of our students. It
is our responsibility to continually audit our
curriculum and the learning opportunities
we offer students, such that we can be sure
they have the very best opportunities to be
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successful adults who seek to create and
contribute to a just, loving and peaceful
society