Our Story

We demonstrate our commitment to quality teaching and learning by encouraging creativity and innovation in learning while challenging our educators to become co-learners, providing a varied, balanced and challenged program of learning that caters to the individual needs of each student.

We work to ensure ongoing assessment of children's learning and evaluation of our own teaching practice, fostering in children a love of learning and a sense of 'learning in action' as we promote learning as a lifelong process.

Our teachers create opportunities for children to develop critical thinking skills, utilising curriculum practices which promote quality personalised learning. We regularly provide opportunities for students to develop the skills to work both cooperatively and independently, embedding technology across the key learning areas while we continue to renew and update resources.

At St Bernadette's, we are committed to and value our Catholic identity. We provide a distinctively Catholic education where Christ's Gospel message is witnessed, acknowledging our faith identity as part of St Bernadette's Parish, the Diocese of Parramatta and the Global Catholic Church. This is accompanied by our knowledge and teaching of Catholic history, traditions and rituals which make up elements of our comprehensive Religious Education program.

Our staff and students work collaboratively to enrich the spirituality of the school's faith community through prayer and liturgy, living out our faith through action and taking part in social justice initiatives. Together as a community, we foster the spiritual growth of both students and staff.

We take a holistic approach to education, focusing on the development of the whole child by providing pastoral care for staff and students, ensuring that our student management procedures are fair and just while reflecting Gospel values, and affirming and developing the gifts and talents of each student.

We believe it is important to acknowledge significant events and milestones of community members while meeting the individual needs of each member of the school community; everyone learns differently, and we know that!

We value every member of our school community by promoting justice, equality, respect and compassion. We promote and maintain an effective communication network within our school community, as well as a welcoming environment through individual and community celebrations and activities.

We foster positive relationships with our students’ parents as important partners in education while maintaining links with the parish and wider community. We place a high priority on the professional development of our staff so as to provide up-to-date and quality teaching for all of our students. Our inclusive community also offers opportunities for educational, spiritual and social involvement in the school.

We believe it's important to take pride in our environment by nurturing our school, addressing safety issues as they arise and encouraging a positive, caring attitude towards the environment.

St Bernadette's provides opportunities for individualised learning spaces that support multiple information and communication technologies, maintaining and enhancing the local physical environment and developing an awareness of wider global issues related to the students' physical environment.