Lower School

St Luke's College understands that learning is personal and acknowledges the importance of every child achieving success. The small nature of our classes enables our staff to know each student intimately and enables us to individualise learning to best cater for each student's needs.

Our curriculum and approach to teaching is focussed around ensuring that all students are engaged in challenging and meaningful educational experiences.  This means connecting to the needs and skills of the contemporary world, developing essential skills such as creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, technological proficiency and global awareness.  Students are encouraged to strive for personal excellence and are assured that at St Luke's College their best is always good enough.

Seven core subjects

All students will study seven core subjects for the whole year consisting of:

  • Religious Education
  • English
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Physical Education
  • Health Education

In addition to these core subjects, students will be able to participate in electives in a variety of areas to cater for different interests and aspirations.

Years 7 and 8

Year 7 and 8 students are given the opportunity to rotate through all electives to get a taste of each area so they can best decide where they would like to specialise in future years.  They will participate in:

  • Year 7
  • Chinese (full year)
  • Year 7 Transition (full year)
  • Music
  • Food Technology
  • Art
  • Information Technology
  • Year 8
  • Chinese (full year)
  • Stem (full year)
  • Drama
  • Art
  • Information Technology
  • Model Making

Years 9 and 10

Students in Year 9 and 10 will chose four electives over the course of the year, two in Semester 1 and two in Semester 2. Below is the variety of choices each student in Year 9 and 10 has:

  • Year 9
  • Art – Visual Communication
  • Art – Sculpture and Puppetry
  • Catering – Food for Health
  • Catering – Food for Life
  • Photography – Urban Landscape
  • Photography – Rule of Thirds
  • Design & Tech. – Fabrication Works
  • Design & Tech. – Wonders of Wood
  • Outdoor Ed. – Adventure and Marine Education
  • Outdoor Ed. – Sports and Recreation
  • Specialised Sport – Netball and Basketball
  • Specialised Sport – Volleyball and Badminton
  • Drama – Putting on a Show
  • Drama – Commedia dell'Arte
  • Engineering – Mechatronics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Year 10
  • Outdoor Ed. – Adventure and Aquatics
  • Outdoor Ed. – Me and My Environment
  • Design & Tech. – Woodwork
  • Design & Tech. – Metalwork
  • Catering – International Foods
  • Catering – Café Culture
  • Art – Brave New World: Contemporary Drawing and Painting
  • Art – Sculpture and the Urban Environment
  • Engineering – Mechatronics
  • Mechanical and Civil Engineering
  • Digital Photography – Motion
  • Digital Photography – Fashion Photography