Preparing girls for tomorrow
Our schools
Collegiate's Senior Campus located on Macquarie Street provides specialised learning for girls from Year 9 through to Year 12. The Year 9 Program - A Year with a Difference - offers a transition between Middle School and preparation for the Tasmanian Certificate of Education. Moving from the Middle School, Years 5 to 8, to the Senior Campus is a natural progression.
In Middle School students experience a secure and structured learning environment where responsibility for one's own learning and behaviour grows through programs that nurture the development of independence and self- direction. By the end of Year 8 girls are well prepared for the move to the Senior Campus with the personal and learning challenges of the final stage of schooling.
The Year 9 Program offers girls the chance to further develop personal independence as well as an awareness of the world in which they live through a range of learning experiences. This includes extended periods in Outdoor Education, time exploring our island, its heritage, beauty and resources, as well as studying our community, our values and our beliefs.
This rich program challenges Year 9 students to think deeply about their world and their place in it.
The Senior Years 10, 11 and 12 are future focused and programs in Pathway Planning and Careers Education give girls the opportunity to explore the future and the preparation for what lies beyond School. Coupled with this and the rigorous academic program is the need for values-based learning.
Developing the whole person is the key to an education at Collegiate.
It is about developing character; what it is to be trustworthy, loyal, accountable and compassionate; to develop resilience and to have the values necessary for good citizenship.
From the time when the Sisters of the Church ran the school to the present, Christian based values education has always been a part of learning at Collegiate.
Our current program nurtures and promotes the development of personal values through a broad-based academic approach to the teaching of Values, Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Students are given intellectual space to explore different approaches as a means of evaluating ethical issues; it is both theoretically based and issues related. Anything from racism to medical ethics or from relationships to business ethics is included in the curriculum.
Young people will have to grapple with the complexities of these issues when they enter the adult world and they need to be given the intellectual tools to engage with problems at a level that goes beyond the superficial or emotive.
Collegiate aims to equip students with personal skills and values to enable them to be valuable citizens and to make a contribution to the world.
If you would like to find out more about what Collegiate has to offer for the education of girls please visit us on Open Day on Wednesday 15 October 2008 or contact the Registrar's office 6211 4969.
Robyn Kronenberg Principal