Teaching and Learning
At King’s, we understand a happy student is an engaged student. We know the reward that comes from extending yourself and the growth achieved if you are willing to accept the challenge of trying your hardest. Young people need variety and challenge. They want teachers who take them seriously, but who also have a sense of humour. Most of all, they need to feel secure and supported in their learning environment. By helping our students to set goals, and by ensuring students receive ongoing feedback and support, we aim to ensure students’ needs are met. Teaching our students that choices have consequences, and by demonstrating daily that we stand beside them as they make those choices, we help them navigate through the important decisions required as they grow through their school journey.
Our Staff
Teachers at King’s are highly skilled and experienced in their field. They have a genuine passion and commitment to lifelong learning and are continually growing in order to ensure students are provided with contemporary, 21st century learning experiences that meet their changing needs. In order to effectively do this, a common vision for Teaching and Learning at King’s across Reception-Year 12 provides an excellent foundation for teachers to support students to understand where they are now, where they need to go and how they are able to get there. Our aim is to ensure all students are provided with opportunities to maximise their learning and flourish.
Our Holistic Approach
King’s is committed to a holistic approach to education and the development of the potential of each young person. Our Spiritual, Academic, Physical, Cultural, Vocational and Social domains are seamlessly worked together in partnership within a caring, Christian community to produce confident, resilient and adaptable young leaders.
A Holistic Approach
With a strong focus on wellbeing, we work hard to create an environment in which students can discover who they are and how to live well with emotional and social agility.
Our students participate in daily devotions and a weekly chapel service that reflects and honours God. We also incorporate programs such as The Rite Journey in Year 9, to help equip boys and girls to grow into the best young men and women they can be; service trips to Cambodia at the King’s Friendship Centre; and Veta Morphus, a nationally accredited VET course offering authentic Christian learning for students in Year 11 and Year 12.
At King’s our core values embrace the FISHER principles: Fairness, Integrity, Service, Humility, Excellence, and Respect and Responsibility. Our students live this out through the school’s Service Learning Program, educating students to be active citizens, using their God-given gifts to serve others with a heart of service and compassion locally, nationally and globally.
At King’s, education doesn’t teach our students what to think, but rather how to think. We encourage our students to develop into critical and creative thinkers. Each year of our program builds on the last; we want your children to emerge as capable, responsible, thoughtful citizens who understand their responsibility for the sustainability of His world.
Our consistent academic results complement the holistic development of your child and places them in a good position as they enter further education and training or the workplace.
We offer learning experiences to prepare students for their preferred futures with a focus on Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurialism and STEM. Students at King’s have opportunities to participate in one or more of our Signature Programs. From Patch to Plate to Australian Business Week, from Dance, Aerobics and Cheer Squad to the Year 10 Survivor Camp, from Children’s University to Pedal Prix - our students learn about themselves, what they might do, and what they can do.
At King’s, your child will learn about the benefits of a healthy, active life and the rewards of risk-taking, teamwork and pushing their own boundaries.
Students are provided with opportunities to participate in individual endeavours ranging from Athletics, Swimming, Cross Country and Table Tennis, and team sports of Basketball, Netball, Soccer, Touch, AFL and Volleyball.
The focus on sporting excellence enables performance at an elite level and this has resulted in students playing sport at the highest level, including representing Australia at the Commonwealth Games and playing in the AFL and AFLW.
The school’s FISHER principles are embedded into all teams at every level to ensure that King’s students not only produce excellent winning results, but display the attitudes and behaviours that our school is founded on.
Physical activity is very much a part of everyday life at King's with all students in Junior and Middle Schools undertaking weekly Physical Education classes and programs. Your child will build their understanding of their wellbeing from health, physical fitness, nutrition, sleep patterns and beyond.
At King’s, the Performing and Visual Arts are a way to channel and grow the creative energy that lies within each individual. The power of voices singing with heart and the thrill of young people finding expression through art, dance or movement is just part of our program.
From Drama and Visual Arts to Modern Dance, every student is encouraged to express themselves through creative mediums. Each year, for students in Year 6 to Year 12 who want a real taste of the theatre, King’s hosts a major school production. This allows them to highlight their musical, acting and dancing talents, while gaining the first-hand experience of ‘strutting the boards’ in our wonderful Auditorium, equipped with full sound and lighting.
Junior School students participate in a variety of performances throughout the year. Approximately a quarter of King’s students undertake private music or voice tuition and King’s offers a number of Choirs, Ensembles, Bands and Vocal Groups.
Students regularly perform at Arts Evenings and Exhibitions; Recital Nights, Weekly Chapels, Celebration and Awards Evenings, Cabaret Nights, Assemblies, Parent Meetings, and many community events.
King’s students will be ready to contribute to the world of work or further education with a sense of positive direction for their future.
Students can explore contemporary subjects such as Teenage Boss, Business Innovation, Entrepreneurial Thinking (Business, Economics and Law), Workplace Practices, and Global Citizenship. They can pursue a specialist Vocational Education pathway with options ranging from Hospitality to Construction to Animal Studies and everything in between.
Students can select from Engineering (Physics and Chemistry), Biomedical Science (Biology and Chemistry), and Health Science (Biology and Psychology) combinations. Other specialist programs include Furniture Construction, Game Design and Computational Thinking, Child Studies, Physical Education, Creative Arts - Musical Theatre and three distinct Arts subjects: Visual Art, Digital Photography and Graphic Design, and Graphic and Environmental Design.
