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Our Lady of the Pines is a Catholic school where Gospel values permeate the learning environment. We believe that the education of your children is a shared role between parents and teachers, home and school.
Our Lady of the Pines is a medium-sized school in the suburb of Donvale. Our spacious grounds are attractively landscaped, providing seating and shade where needed. The classrooms, specialist areas and library resource centre are air conditioned, heated and very well equipped and resourced. All classrooms, learning areas and library are networked.
Our curriculum is designed to enhance the spiritual, intellectual, social, physical and personal development of each child. We work in partnership with our parent community to nurture the values and traditions of the Catholic faith. Embedded throughout the curriculum are the skills of co-operation, problem solving, innovation, self-direction and the capacity to relate to others and manage change. We use structured and embedded programs to explicitly teach and develop personal and interpersonal learning. Through teachers' ongoing implementation of the inquiry approach, student levels of engagement and learning outcomes continue to increase. We endeavour to foster the potential of every student through a range of specialist, support and extension programs.
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