St Leo The Great Primary School aims to deliver quality Catholic Education to the children of our Parish.

Our vocation is teaching and learning. We focus on spiritual, intellectual, physical, social and emotional growth.

Our curriculum programs will be:

• Enlightened by the teachings and values of the Catholic Faith

• Based on Government, CECV and MACs policies *

• Delivered in a safe, welcoming and cooperative learning environment

• Enriched by modern technology

• Underpinned by Pastoral Care

Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools (MACs) Statement of Mission

Catholic schooling seeks to provide the young with the best kind of education possible, one that
fosters a formation of the whole person that is deeply and enduringly humanising.

Education is integral to the mission of the Church to proclaim the Good News. First and foremost
every Catholic educational institution is a place to encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ
reveals his transforming love and truth. This relationship elicits a desire to grow in the knowledge
and understanding of Christ and his teaching. In this way those who meet him are drawn by the
very power of the Gospel to lead a new life characterized by all that is beautiful, good, and true;
a life of Christian witness nurtured and strengthened within the community of our Lord’s disciples,
the Church.

With parents and parishes, Catholic schooling seeks to fulfil this mission by providing an environment
in which students are enabled to:
• encounter God in Christ and deepen their relationship with him
• pursue wisdom and truth encouraged by a supportive academic culture
• grow in the practice of virtue, responsible freedom and serving the common good.

A Catholic school:

• is actively embedded in the life of the faith communities of the local Church, which in turn is tangibly
manifest in the life of each school
• is an essential place for the evangelising of children and young people
• prioritises the forming of missionary disciples of Jesus
• exists to assist students and their families to integrate faith, reason, life and culture
• is conspicuously Christian in outlook, explicitly Catholic in faith and practice, and intentionally
missionary in orientation
• cultivates spiritual, social and emotional growth in a safe and protective environment
• provides a learning environment in which the whole educational community is formed to embrace
life in all its fullness
• offers a human formation that has the intellectual, practical and moral excellence of learners at its
heart
• forms consciences, fosters peace and develops respectful dialogue at the service of intellectual charity
• encourages the discovery of Catholic cultural heritage, especially in art, music, literature and
architecture.

Catholic schools, which always strive to join their work of education with the explicit proclamation of
the Gospel, are a most valuable resource for the evangelization of culture.

The good work of educating the young, undertaken in the light of the Gospel, is a co-responsible task
led by every member of the Catholic school community. Modelled by parents, principals and teachers,
in prayer and with wisdom, through witness and by example, Catholic schooling is at the service of the
integral human formation of children and young people in Christ.

A Catholic school is eucharistic in character. The sacramental and prayer life of the local Church,
especially in the gathering of God’s People in Sunday Mass, is integral to the mission of a Catholic
school and indispensable to its richness. A fruitful sign of the living witness of faith with parents and
parishes is the participation of students and families in the life, mission and work of the local faith
community, especially in the call to worship God and to serve the poor and marginalised (Acts 2: 42–47).

By cultivating a maturing of faith and the intellectual life through the modelling of good relationships,
Catholic school students are prepared for living fruitfully in the world.

From clause 3.2 – Constitution: Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Ltd