Our Values
At Albert Park College we value:
- A Positive Culture, encouraging students and staff to strive for excellence in all that we do.
- Our Community, forming partnerships with local organisations to support and foster growth and community well-being
- Knowledge and learning, celebrating academic achievement for our pupils and promoting life-long learning for our staff.
- The Environment, wanting to bequeath a beautiful, sustainable world to our students.
- International-mindedness, preparing our students to be global citizens with a passion for the world at large. We want them to explore it, engage with it and succeed in it.
The following five values underpin the culture of APC, a culture that fosters success, engagement and enjoyment of these wonderful years.
- A Positive Culture
- we are positive, open and encourage a ‘can do' attitude
- we celebrate a diverse range of skills and achievements
- we encourage our students into higher education and training
- we display leadership
- Community & Partnership
- we respect, support and nurture those around us
- we are fair, consistent and clear
- we are actively engaged in a partnership of learning that includes students, teachers, parents and the wider community to improve learning
- Knowledge
- we respect knowledge, skills and creativity
- we are open to new methods of teaching and learning
- we challenge students to be their best at academic, sporting and artistic pursuits
- we promote a culture of excellence in everything we do
- Environment
- we teach students to be custodians of the environment
- we teach skills for the future
- we aim for an environmentally sustainable school
- International-mindedness
- we respect nations and cultures different from our own
- we teach students to be global citizens
- we build local, national and international partnerships to support learning
Students are at the centre of everything we do.