VISION:

To develop the Mount Erin community’s skills so that they can use language to communicate effectively. We aspire to literary improvements and personalised learning that is relevant and provides skills for lifelong learning.

MISSION:

From our teaching and learning, we hope to enable all students to be successful in their chosen pathways within the English curriculum. We recognise the importance of helping young people develop the knowledge and skills needed for education, training and the workplace. We aim to create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens.

PHILOSOPHY:

The teaching of English at Mount Erin College is underpinned by the ASPIRE values. Teachers plan to use explicit teaching strategies to personalise learning for each student. Through a comprehensive and engaging curriculum, we will work to encourage highly literate, confident and effective language users. Teachers work with students to develop not only their ability to read, listen to, view, speak, write and create a range of texts, but to encourage an appreciation and enjoyment for the English language in all its variations.

Vision: 

The Mount Erin College Science Program aims to provide an approach to learning that engages students physically and cognitively in a rich and rigorous inquiry-driven laboratory program where students operate as “Student-Scientists.” The primary goal of the program is to develop substantive science literacy in all students. The program must provide students with opportunities to expand, change, enhance, and modify the ways in which they view the world. Teachers facilitate an environment that promotes students’ thinking, honesty, curiosity, and questioning. Students will be empowered to express and share points of view, solve problems, and make decisions based on evidence.

Mission: 

The curriculum shall provide a flexible program for the acquisition of knowledge and utilization of the scientific processes appropriate to the level of the student. The science curriculum and instruction presented to students in science classes will be differentiated to provide appropriate rigor and challenge for all learners. Teachers may tailor the depth to which students pursue solutions to these driving questions in order to meet the unique needs of the students in their classes. For example, students enrolled in SEAL science classes will participate in a program that has a level of rigor and challenge appropriate for high ability learners. Other students may require instruction on content and skills that specifically addresses their learning needs. The ultimate goal is to guide all students to intelligent decision-making through the assimilation of scientific knowledge and the application of scientific inquiry.

Philosophy: 

Science provides an empirical way of answering interesting and important questions about the biological, physical and technological world. The knowledge it produces has proved to be a reliable basis for action in our personal, social and economic lives. Science is a dynamic, collaborative and creative human endeavour arising from our desire to make sense of our world through exploring the unknown, investigating universal mysteries, making predictions and solving problems. Science aims to understand a large number of observations in terms of a much smaller number of broad principles. Science knowledge is contestable and is revised, refined and extended as new evidence arises.

Science provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of important science concepts and processes, the practices used to develop scientific knowledge, of science’s contribution to our culture and society, and its applications in our lives. The curriculum supports students to develop the scientific knowledge, understandings and skills to make informed decisions about local, national and global issues and to participate, if they so wish, in science-related careers.

In addition to its practical applications, learning science is a valuable pursuit in its own right. Students can experience the joy of scientific discovery and nurture their natural curiosity about the world around them. In doing this, they develop critical and creative thinking skills and challenge themselves to identify questions and draw evidence-based conclusions using scientific methods. The wider benefits of this ‘scientific literacy’ are well established, including giving students the capability to investigate the natural world and changes made to it through human activity.

The ability to think and act in scientific ways helps build the broader suite of capabilities in students as confident, self-motivated and active members of our society.

Vision
To enable the Mount Erin community to use Physical Education and Health knowledge to understand the context of physical activity to benefit overall health.

Mission

To develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to

• access, evaluate and synthesise information to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation across their lifespan
• develop and use personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal identity and wellbeing and to build and manage respectful relationships

Philosophy

In Health and Physical Education at Mount Erin College, students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to strengthen their sense of self, and build and manage satisfying relationships. The curriculum helps them to be resilient, and to make decisions and take actions to promote their health, safety and physical activity participation. As students mature, they develop and use critical inquiry skills to research and analyse the knowledge of the field and to understand the influences on their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They also learn to use resources for the benefit of themselves and for the communities with which they identify and to which they belong.

VISION:

At Mount Erin College the Arts enable students to develop their creative and expressive capacities by learning about the different practices, disciplines and traditions that have shaped the expression of culture locally, nationally and globally. Students are both artist and audience in the Arts. They make and respond and learn to appreciate the specific ways this occurs in different disciplines.

MISSION:

To enable students to use creative approaches in a variety of settings to further develop an understanding of the arts in different cultures and time periods. To give students the opportunity to be involved in the art making processes as well as in presenting their work to the wider community of the school. Also to further students’ confidence as they work towards specific areas of study in the VCE level.

PHILOSOPHY:

To allow students the opportunity to be involved in a broad and vibrant faculty that values different and new ideas. Within this faculty each student will have the opportunity to further develop confidence in a wide variety of the arts. We aim to cater for all students to foster growth in expression of ideas, as well as being an active participate in viewing the arts from different cultures and time periods.