Sacred Heart Goals

Five Goals of Sacred Heart Education

A Sacred Heart education is marked by a distinctive spirit.

This spirit is expressed in the five Goals of Sacred Heart Education. Sacred Heart schools around the world hold the five Goals as fundamental to the way in which the School is run. In their every day school life, members of the school community endeavour to ‘live out' these Goals For each Goal there are several criteria. These are statements of intent through which the Goals are achieved.

It is of the essence of a Sacred Heart school that it be deeply concerned for each student's total development: spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical. A Sacred Heart school emphasises serious study, social responsibility, personal growth and resilience, wise decision-making and lays the foundations of a strong faith.

The Goals and Criteria are fundamental to the four schools that belongs to the Australian and New Zealand Network of Sacred Heart Schools (ANZNet). They provide the framework within which each school develops its own specific objectives appropriate to the local situation. They will serve as instruments of evaluation and accountability by which each school and the Network as a whole will test its congruence with the Sacred Heart philosophy of education.

• A Personal and Active Faith in God
• A Deep Respect for Intellectual Values
• The Building of Community as a Christian Value
• A Social Awareness that Impels to Action
• Personal Growth in an Atmosphere of Wise Freedom