A Professional Learning Community
At St Mel's we draw on the research and philosophies of many and mould it to cater for a diverse learning community...
At St Mel's we acknowledge that the child is a capable person, who from birth can readily manage multiple relationships, both Divine and human, that is willing to make meaning of the world about them.
In collaboration with the child, parent, teacher and community, St Mel's works to create engaging learning experiences that are founded on the theories of past and current researchers such as Piaget, Vygotsky, Cavaletti, Robinson, and Malagruzzi.
Learning at St Mel's is organic and fluid, creating opportunities for the child to experience success in learning via play, the arts, literature, numeracy, physical activity, sciences - learning is multi-disciplinary and is accessed in an environment that is welcoming, homely, challenging and encouraging.
As a learning community, St Mel's takes co-responsibility for all it's citizens, citizens of the world, allowing each member to live life in the abundance of Gods love, in union with young and old, with the expectation that all can LEARN.
We not only welcome all those who chose St Mel's as place of learning, a place where relationships are formed and built upon, but more so we hope to create a community where ALL belong.
Playful learning to inquiring minds
Inquiring minds to cooperative learners
Cooperative learners to self directed individuals.
Developing creativity through learning.
The Environment
For learning environments to be places where children...
...feel secure and safe to be in relationship with each other
...explore, discover, question, marvel and wonder
...interact with materials which offer endless possibilities
...and where their curiosity for learning is ignited. Lisa Burman
Creativity
“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” Sir Ken Robinson
Building Relationships
“The child will be our teacher if we know how to observe.” – Sofia Cavalletti
Life Giving
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewy
Vygotsky conceives of the social environment in which the child finds itself and the relationship of the child to other people, not just as a collection of factors, as influence or resource or context or community, but concretely as a predicament.
Maria Montessori had the genius to treat the child, even the very small child, as a person, -a living being with his or her own laws of development.
At St Mel's we draw on the research and philosophies of many and mould it to cater for a diverse learning community...
At St Mel's we acknowledge that the child is a capable person, who from birth can readily manage multiple relationships, both Divine and human, that is willing to make meaning of the world about them.
In collaboration with the child, parent, teacher and community, St Mel's works to create engaging learning experiences that are founded on the theories of past and current researchers such as Piaget, Vygotsky, Cavaletti, Robinson, and Malagruzzi.
Learning at St Mel's is organic and fluid, creating opportunities for the child to experience success in learning via play, the arts, literature, numeracy, physical activity, sciences - learning is multi-disciplinary and is accessed in an environment that is welcoming, homely, challenging and encouraging.
As a learning community, St Mel's takes co-responsibility for all it's citizens, citizens of the world, allowing each member to live life in the abundance of Gods love, in union with young and old, with the expectation that all can LEARN.
We not only welcome all those who chose St Mel's as place of learning, a place where relationships are formed and built upon, but more so we hope to create a community where ALL belong.
Playful learning to inquiring minds
Inquiring minds to cooperative learners
Cooperative learners to self directed individuals.
Developing creativity through learning.
The Environment
For learning environments to be places where children...
...feel secure and safe to be in relationship with each other
...explore, discover, question, marvel and wonder
...interact with materials which offer endless possibilities
...and where their curiosity for learning is ignited. Lisa Burman
Creativity
“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” Sir Ken Robinson
Building Relationships
“The child will be our teacher if we know how to observe.” – Sofia Cavalletti
Life Giving
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewy
Vygotsky conceives of the social environment in which the child finds itself and the relationship of the child to other people, not just as a collection of factors, as influence or resource or context or community, but concretely as a predicament.
Maria Montessori had the genius to treat the child, even the very small child, as a person, -a living being with his or her own laws of development.