Sacred Heart College, Sorrento

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Sacred Heart College, Sorrento, is a Catholic Co-Educational Secondary School offering education to boys and girls in Years 8-12. The School was established in 1967 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. The College is now fully co-educational with an intake of approximately 204 students in Year 8. The full student enrolment is approximately 1000.

The College is situated on an 8-hectare site overlooking the Indian Ocean. Extensive playing fields presently include an oval, hard courts for tennis, netball, volleyball and basketball, as well as cricket practice nets.

Buildings on site include a Resource Centre, Science laboratories, general classrooms and specialist rooms for Computing, Technology and Enterprise, Media Studies, Remediation and Education Support. The McInerney Centre (named after Sister McInerney) incorporates a gymnasium and provides facilities for education in the Performing Arts. The College also has a small chapel, which is regularly used for morning masses and year form masses.

The Pastoral Care Centre is ideally located in the middle of the College and is the focal point for student needs. Within this building are offices for the College Chaplain, Educational Psychologists, Careers Counsellor and the 5 Deans of Students who are allocated to each Year group.

[edit] Philosophy

The College believes it is an expression of a philosophy of education which has an explicit and all-pervasive religious dimension. At the core of the this religious dimension, people find ways of exploring turth, values, attitude and beliefsof the Catholic faith.

[edit] Aims

The College motto, Always Striving Upwards...to You Our God. This motto encourages all strudents to be fully aware of value as a person, their Christian values and their image formed in the image of God.