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Arcadia College integrates the Australian Curriculum with real world challenges and lifelong skills for learning.
Arcadia College is a co-educational secondary school offering a safe, inclusive and future-focused educational and well-being program. As a special assistance school, we cater for a diverse range of students’ learning, emotional, psychological and physical needs, in order to give our students’, the best opportunity to build their future pathways and lives.
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) and guided by the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians, Arcadia College staff create, implement and evaluate high quality, responsive and supportive programs with respect to the ages, abilities, aptitudes and development of our students.
Through the targeted teaching of English, Mathematics and Science, with newly generated PBL projects, aligned to the Australian Curriculum and importantly, students’ interests, this suite of programs will expose students to enriched learning experiences, indicative of societal expectations, curriculum imperatives and the complex demands of 21st century life.
This curriculum has thus been designed to incorporate ‘real world challenges,’ and ‘lifelong skills for learning,’ whilst reflecting the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. Arcadia has also embedded literacy and numeracy intervention strategies for those students who require additional assistance in these areas. In addition, students will engage in social and emotional learning through a structured, targeted framework, incorporating developmental needs of students, as well as through Adventure-Based Learning programs in the Health and Physical Education Key Learning Area (KLA). Students are also able to choose from a select range of learning units to deeply engage with and direct their own learning adventures.
