Parents are encouraged to contact the school on the day that a student is absent. Various communication channels are available for parents to contact the school regarding student absence:

• Dedicated email address
• Telephone Absentee Line
• STACC Mobile Telephone App
• Parent Portal

If students are absent without notification, parents are contacted on that day. If there is a pattern of non-attendance developing, parents are contacted and an interview is requested. A non-attendance pattern is likely to cause a disruption to the student's learning.

As a College, across all year levels, we are working on improving school attendance during the term as this greatly influences academic results and student engagement. We ask our parents / carers to assist us by minimising the time their children are away from the College during term time and at the conclusion / beginning of each term. Every day lost through absence is a day lost to learning.

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• Large scope and variety of extra-curricular programs St Andrew's Catholic College offers. Our curriculum is complemented by the extensive use of technology to enhance curriculum delivery.
• Specific programmes in relation to student welfare - Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs start in Prep and continue throughout the College up to and including Year 12. This program provides life skills education through building confidence, resilience, organisation, getting along, and persistence. Through this emphasis, our College encourages individuals to develop Christian wholeness by implementing evidence-based Social and Emotional Learning to nurture wellbeing, invigorate learning and develop cultures of connectedness.
• Specialist programmes showing improved outcomes for students with disabilities and those who need learning support. Students benefit from caring, dedicated and specialised staff focusing on the individual needs of students. Special Needs & Learning Support Programmes are organised in each sector, providing support to all students in need across the College from Prep to Year 12.
• Vocational Education and Training Vocational Education continues to expand at St Andrew's with St Andrew's Trade Centre being utilised by a large proportion of our senior year cohort. As a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) we have numerous Certificate courses on our Scope of Registration for Years 10 to 12 students; up to and including Certificate III and IV qualifications.

As a Catholic College, we are committed to a particular value system, that is "Christian Values in the Catholic Tradition, based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Our hope is to provide students with a clearly defined set of values and principles by which to lead their lives and a sense of service and giving. Through their involvement in this Catholic Faith Community, students will be able to reach their full potential, through the enhancement of their educational, personal and spiritual dimensions.

Our College calls each person to be the person that Jesus would want them to be. As a result of such a calling, our students will enrich the world when they enter it as adults. We ask them not to accept the world as it is, but to work for the world that could be.

"I have come in order that you might have life in all its fullness." (Jn-10:10)

91% of students agreed:

• they feel positive at school and they feel relaxed about being a St Andrew's student.
• their teachers are well prepared.
• the College offers so many opportunities to grow.
• their teachers knew them well and cared for them.
• the College was a place that prepared them for their life after school.

Overall students believe that the teachers provide a stimulating learning environment and are preparing them well for the future.

Data Last Updated Mon Apr 09 2018