Learning at Redfield

The wider goals of education

Redfield strives to provide for each student a broad, liberal arts based education. The study of the Mathematics and the Sciences are complemented by an extensive reading scheme, instruction in a modern language other than English from Year 2 to 8, the compulsory study of History through to Year 10, an extensive study of the Catholic faith throughout schooling at Redfield, and a survey course in Philosophy in Year 11.

Our aim is to challenge each student to reach his full academic potential through effective classroom teaching and the development of internalised motivation and the virtues. The sound habits of responsibility, scholarship and respect for truth are held in high esteem in the College.

Each boy at Redfield is held accountable for his studies and is helped to realise that good education is something of significant value to society at large. This is, perhaps, best encapsulated in the Pope Paul VI's words from his Declaration on Christian Education in Vactican II:

A true education aims at the formation of the human person with respect to his ultimate goal, simultaneously with respect to the good of society to which he belongs and in the duties of which as an adult he will have a share.

Central to these educational goals is the concept of Integral Education. The harmonious development of a boy's character in all of its human, intellectual, cultural, spiritual and social potential is at the core of Integral Education. We believe that this goal is best achieved through the school supporting the parents in their duty to develop their boys' whole character.

A corollary of this ideal of integral personal education is that each setting where the child finds himself should reinforce these goals of education of the intellect and the will. Across the whole range of activities in which the child is involved, there should be a consistent message of what he needs to develop, and a consistent focus and strategy for this integral growth.