Our highest aim at Canberra Christian School is to provide your child with a thorough grounding in key learning areas whilst endeavoring to offer students a happy, secure and stimulating environment. We create this environment through appreciation for individual needs, respect for the children in our care and support for their values and opinions.

Canberra Christian School is a small school with composit classes where every aspect of the educational program is devoted to the development of the whole person.

Our learning program is based on the ACT curriculum framework ‘Every chance to learn’, consisting of the following:

• Bible - Growing in Faith
• English – Listening and Speaking, Reading, Writing and Critically Interpreting and Creating Texts
• Mathematics – Number, Measurement and Patterns and Relationships
• Science – Scientific Knowledge and an Environmentally Sustainable Future
• Technology – Designs, Makes and Appraises using Technology
• Social Sciences – Australia, Citizenship, World Issues and Events, and Money and Finance
• The Arts – Visual Arts, Dance, Drama, Music and Media
• Health and Physical Education – Health Promotion, Physically Skilled and Active, and Self Management and Relationships
• Languages – Intercultural Understanding
• Interdisciplinary – Thinking Skills, Inquiry Process, Decision Making, Integrity, Group Effectiveness and Information and Communication Technology

ESSENTIAL LEARNING AREAS DIAGRAM pdf

Gifted & Talented/Learning Difficulties

Through our assessment procedures we identify gifted and talented children as well as children with learning difficulties.

Gifted and talented students have the opportunity to work at a higher academic level within the classroom program. Because of our school structure we have the flexibility of providing for students with gifts and talents in their specific areas of expertise.

For students requiring additional assistance we have a teacher who provides individual and/or small group support in literacy and numeracy.

Bell Times

Our teachers are on duty and provide supervision from 8:30am.

  8:55am-   9:00am    Assembly 
  9:00am- 11:00am    Class Time 
11:00am- 11:20am    Recess 
11:20am- 12:50pm    Class Time 
12:50pm-   1:50pm   Lunch 
  1:50pm-   3:00pm    Class Time
  3:00pm-                   School Finishes

Staff supervision is provided until 3:30pm.

Term Dates 2011

Term 1      7 February - 15 April