curriculum-overviewThe curriculum at Mater Christi Catholic Primary School operates across nine learning areas:

  • Religious Education
  • Mathematics
  • English
  • Science
  • Technology & Enterprise
  • Health & Physical Education
  • Studies of Society and the Environment
  • The Arts incl Music and Performing Arts
  • Languages Other Than English (Italian)

Teachers offer a rigorous and varied curriculum across all learning areas. Specialist teachers are engaged for the teaching areas of Science, Drama, Music, Physical Education, Italian and Gifted and Talented Education. A comprehensive Learning Support program is also effective across all classes.

Technology in action

Our entire school operates on Apple platforms, with Ipads readily available in the Four Year Old Kindergarten to Year Three classes, and Macbook Air laptops in our Years Four to Six classes.

In addition to a spacious dedicated library, Mater Christi now has a new Learning Hub is also well resourced with a bank of Macbook Air laptops, Ipads and other learned-based technology tools. This space is used regularly by all year groups.

Subscriptions to Mathletics and Reading Eggs/Reading Eggspress is in place for students from Preprimary to Year Six and regularly forms part of class literacy and numeracy groups, as well as the homework routine.