Academic Mission
In our Mission Statement we are reminded
that “we are to challenge each boy to achieve his full potential
in all academic ... activities.” We are also reminded that
“we educate the whole person ...”
Our philosophical approach is to demand that our students
who leave St Peter's College have had a rigorous and comprehensive academic education.
This is in keeping with the Roman Document:
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In virtue of its mission, then, the school must be concerned with constant and
careful attention to cultivating in students the intellectual, creative, and aesthetic
facilities of the human person; to develop in them the ability to make correct
use of their judgement, will, and affectivity; to promote in them a sense of values;
to encourage just attitudes and prudent behaviour; to introduce them to the cultural
patrimony handed down from previous generations; to prepare them for professional
life, and to encourage the friendly interchange among students of diverse cultures
and backgrounds that will lead to mutual understanding.”
The school must begin from the principle that its educational
programme is intrinsically directed to the growth of the whole child. In many
ways the education that will best meet the needs of today’s secondary
school students is an education which is somewhat analogous to that labelled as
“general education”. This holistic approach will provide the students
an opportunity to obtain the synthesis of faith and culture held out as an ideal
in the Roman documents:
“It is extremely important, then, that the Catholic educator
reflect on the profound relationship that exists between culture and the Church.
For the Church not only influences culture and is, in turn, conditioned by culture;
the Church embraces everything in human culture which is compatible with revelation
and which it needs in order to proclaim the message of Christ and express it more
adequately according to the cultural characteristics of each people and each age.”
The College Academic programme is handled within 11
faculties whose major goals include:
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The planning, teaching and evaluation of programmes which develop
intellectual curiosity and a desire for life-long learning. |
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The development of learning skills of finding, organising, analysing and
applying information in a constructive and objective manner. |
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The development of competencies in reading, writing, speaking, listening and
viewing. |
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The preparation for National examination at various levels and being successful
at a National level. |
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Developing the practical slogan as “student-as-worker”, challenging
boys how to learn and to teach themselves. |
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Acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits which contribute to the
physical, mental and social well-being of boys. |
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Acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits required to respond to
the opportunities and expectations of the world of work. |
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It is recognised that in sequencing learning activities for students, some
goals are emphasised earlier than others – however, in relation to the total
years of schooling, they are of equal importance. |
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