Each year St Catherine's provides a variety of opportunities for children to participate in sporting academies, music lessons, choir, debating, gardening, chess and the arts. These activities allow our students to grow in confidence, connect socially with their peers and helps them to explore their passion and interests beyond the learning curriculum.
At St Catherine’s School, Stirling, we are proud of the Performing Arts program in our Curriculum.
Performing Arts encourages our children to expand their imagination and helps them develop their own, unique voice while developing cognitive skills. Each class is provided a weekly Performing Arts lesson as part of their curriculum.
Additional opportunities are provided to students, as listed below:
Musical:
In Years 5 and 6 the students of St Catherine’s partake in a school musical on a bi-annual schedule. This provides our students with an opportunity to experience both on-stage performances as well as set design, stage manage-ment and technical production. In 2022 we will be performing Into the Woods. Recent performances have included Matilda (2020) and Beauty and the Beast (2018)
Choir:
Year 5 and 6 students are invited to participate in the senior school choir.
As part of being in the choir we partake in the annual Catholic Schools Music Festival. In 2022 this will be held on 26-29 September at the Adelaide Festival Theatre.
Instrumental
Our students can choose to take private tuition instrumental lessons at school. We have highly qualified, specialist teachers in piano, violin, guitar and voice. These lessons are held during the day in our music rooms. Children are allocated a lesson on a specific day on a rotational basis.
Please contact our Performing Arts Teacher, Kathryn Thomson, to enquire about instrumental lessons for your child: kthomson@stcaths.catholic.edu.au
Our school enters the SA Catholic School Sports Association (SACPSSA) carnivals each year (swimming, athletics, cross country, netball, handball and touch football).
We also enter the Australian Primary Schools Amateur Sports Association (SAPSASA) each year (carnivals for swimming, athletics and cross country), as well as the Adelaide Hills Regional Carnival (soccer, netball and football).
Each year our Year 5 and 6 students have the opportunity to join the Festival Choir, a mass choir from Catholic schools throughout the state, which performs at the Festival Theatre or The Entertainment Centre. This event is always a great night out that showcases the rich musical talent of students in Catholic schools. We are proud of our long association with the Music Festival and love offering this opportunity for our students.
At St Catherine's School we offer families the option to take part in the Children's University Adelaide program which offers educational experiences for children aged 5-14.
It’s an innovative program that engages children and young people in exciting, out-of-school learning opportunities to increase their chances for educational achievement and rewards them for taking responsibility for their own learning. At the end of the program, students are recognised for their achievements through the award of formal certificates and graduations.
