Student Learning

All efforts to promote positive attitudes, achievements and behaviour have as their prime goal, the ethical growth and development of students as individuals, and as members of a community. This practice is based on the principle of respect and of caring for each other, rather than maintaining order through a purely punitive system. We strive to maintain a school environment where children can experience success while feeling safe, happy and secure.

We encourage commitment to a restorative approach when relational challenges arise. A restorative approach provides opportunity for those who have been affected by conflict to be part of the healing process. When students play a part in the repairing and rebuilding of relationships and have a clear understanding of behavioural expectations, prevention of ongoing conflict results.

Differentiated learning at Playford College involves providing students with different pathways to achieve success. Students engage and focus on a task when they are at the centre of their own learning experience. Personalised learning leads to deeper understanding and application for students.

Learning is constantly reviewed and challenged as we design curriculum for the future that is also relevant to our setting and context. We promote flexible learning arrangements focused on growing each child.

We believe children grow through all areas of their learning. No matter what their ability, with a positive mindset for growth, all students can accomplish improvement. Developing ongoing assessment throughout learning units, giving purposeful feedback, actively engaging students in setting learning goals and reflecting on themselves as learners, creates an atmosphere where student growth is promoted.

At Playford College we are a local, national and globally connected school. Being connected through technology in all areas of learning provides students with excellent opportunities to be innovative.
Our Illumination curriculum gives children a spiritual perspective that generates clarity and hope as they attempt to understand the world and their place in it.

Enabling technology provides students with power and opportunity to gain real knowledge and experience beyond the classroom. While a focus on learning continues to drive and stimulate the curriculum at Playford College, technology enhances and amplifies the learning and gives every student opportunity to succeed.

Teachers with varying gifts and talents work collaboratively to ensure curriculum is relevant, vibrant and engaging. A focus on individual learning styles, brain based learning and an ever increasing knowledge of how students learn, combine to create a rigorous learning environment.

Looking to the future we recognise our students will be required to be strong problem solvers. In a dynamic world where technology and automation is changing the workplace at rapid rates, children must be ready to face the challenges, ask questions and think for themselves. Well developed, these skills will positively impact all facets of their lives.

Curriculum at Playford College is shaped by the Australian Curriculum, with innovative connections made through an integrated delivery across all subjects. We offer an array of original, creative and engaging units of inquiry. Our core values of respect – for God, for self, for others and for property – underpin all learning and teaching at Playford College and support development of the ‘whole child’.

All efforts to promote positive attitudes, achievements and behaviour have as their prime goal, the ethical growth and development of students as individuals, and as members of a community