Guiding Principles

Our Aims

 At Cathedral College Wangaratta we aim to:

• give a broad based education, acknowledging that the prime purpose of education is learning, and learning is a discipline;
• recognise the worth, dignity and capacity of each member of the school community;
• help each student recognise and foster their individual strengths;
• develop the practice of constructive, reflective and critical thinking;
• assist students to learn by providing opportunities for them to question, explore choices, create, solve problems, make decisions and pursue knowledge;
• encourage high standards in all aspects of school life, at all times;
• encourage students to make informed choices about their futures;
• provide opportunities to develop leadership, tolerance and teamwork;
• develop in each student a confident, positive, caring and enthusiastic attitude to life by offering opportunities for spiritual, moral, cultural, intellectual and physical development;
• enable teachers to find professional fulfilment in their work, through appropriate responsibilities, through sharing of ideas and through a proper concern for career development;
• encourage parents to share in the aims, participate in the life and consider the College as an extension of their own nurturing at home.

Our Commitment to Child Safety

As a school we are committed to a culture of child safety and we have zero tolerance of child abuse of any form. Please refer to the document below for our Child Safety Code of Conduct.

Our Commitment to Democratic Principles

Cathedral College Wangaratta supports and promotes the principles and practice of Australian Democracy in its educational programs and policies.  Specifically, we are committed to:

• accepting Governments that are duly elected.
• the rule of law.
• equal rights for all before the law.
• freedom of religion.
• fundamental freedom of speech and association.
• the values of openness and tolerance.

We are committed to living in peace with our fellow Australians irrespective of differences in faith, race or culture, and are committed to the social value of respect for all persons.