Each child at St Luke's participates weekly in Specialist Lessons, taught byt Specialist Teachers. These lessons are: Physical Education, The Arts, Technologies (Design and Digital) and Japanese.
Physical Education
Physical Education at St Luke's is considered an essential part of a child's development. There is a strong emphasis on game sense, skill acquisition and sportsmanship as students learn various skills throughout the year in their weekly PE specialist lessons. Students in all year levels participate in the core skills from ACARA Health and Physical Education Curriculum.
A highlight of the yearly school sporting calendar are the Inter House Competitions in Swimming, Cross Country and Track and Field. These are specifically designed for sport house team cohesion and individual success. Students also have the opportunity to participate at a representative level in swimming, cross country and athletics at the Bayside Catholic Primary Schools and the Bayside District carnivals. Students also have the opportunity to progress to district, regional, state and national representation in most sports through the Bayside District selection process.
The names of the three sport houses at St Luke's are drawn from our natural bushland setting. They are Grevillea (Red); Banksia (Green) and Wattle (Yellow).
The Arts
At St Luke's students engage in weekly The Arts lessons with a specialist teacher. Through The Arts, students will learning to express their ideas, thoughts, questions, understandings and opinions. They develop aesthetic knowledge and learn that the creative and critical processes of each Arts subject are essential to learning in, about and through The Arts. The Arts are core to the development of creative, confident, compassionate and resilient individuals who can think and reflect critically, celebrate and challenge ideas, peoples and events, and work towards making a difference in sustaining and reimagining their own and their communities' futures.
The Australian Curriculum: The Arts comprises of five subjects:
- Dance
- Drama
- Media Arts
- Music
- Visual Arts
Technologies
Students in Technologies will apply their knowledge and practical skills and processes when using technologies and other resources. Students will create innovative solutions as well as responding to the designed world, consider desirable sustainable patterns of living and contribute to prefered futures for themselves and others. They work independently and collaboratively to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to respond creatively.
The practical nature of the Technologies subject engages studnets in critical and creative thinking inlcuding understanding interrelationships in systems when solving complex problems.
Learning in Technologies is important for a diverse and capable science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Developing STEM competencies enables students to develop, model, analyse and improve solutions to real-world problems.
Languages - Japanese
The Australian Curriculum languages is designed to enable all students to learn a language in addition to English. Learning another language develops learners' communication skills, literacy in their first and additional language, intercultural capabilities, understanding of, and respect for, diversity and difference, an understanding and appreciation of how culture shapes world views and develops critical and creative thinking.