At Discovery College our focus includes, but reaches far beyond, core academia. It embraces an overarching goal to develop the whole student. We strive to give each student hands-on experience and exposure to many aspects of life both inside and outside the classroom. It is important to us that our students build strong social skills and encourage respect, as well as explore creativity, self-reliance, mechanical and technical skills that will serve them long into the future. We endeavour to develop strong competencies and attitudes that will be carried with our students and will assist them to become good men and women, partners and parents, ethical
While we can only feature a small percentage of the wide range of activities happening within the College, I am struck by the diversity of what is included and inspired by the passion that went into delivering these learning experiences. We are fortunate that we can rely on all members of our Discovery College community, teachers and staff, parents and alumni, to contribute to the development of our students as whole people, and I am confident that our students will continue to make us all proud far into the future.
I can see this vision for Discovery College students clearly unfolding on the following pages. From the Primary Positive Detectives programme, which encourages students to identify and promote good that exists in their lives everyday, to the Secondary Wellness programme, which has recently included training students to be Community First Aiders in order to equip them take action in the world around them.
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Mark Beach Principal
2016
business people, strong community leaders and even more simply, kind and contributing members to society.
SHE JIE MAGAZINE – AUTUMN
We live in a competitive world and perhaps during our time in primary and secondary school we are exposed to more competition than we will face for the rest of our lives. We compete in sports and for academic success and at the end of our secondary education, we compete for acceptance to universities, for placement in internships or for our first jobs as we step out into the world. While this competition can be a positive in encouraging hard work and success, it can often be narrowly focused, leaving other areas of our lives with little growth or exposure.
P r incipal ' s N otes
Developing the Whole Student
To look out into the world