Background

Antipodeans Abroad Programme:

The Antipodeans Expedition emphasises leadership, teamwork, adventure, cultural awareness and service (including self-initiated fund raising projects).

Objectif

To increase the cultural awareness of students, and to allow students to experience social justice in another culture and country.

Activities

Objective

To increase children's awareness towards the elderly.

Activities

• Visits to aged-care facilities (St Paul's Villa and St John's in Brisbane).

• Student music group performing for the two elderly care facilities above .

• Service Learning is included in the Stuartholme School curriculum for years 7-9.

Background

The Sacred Heart Schools fosters in its curriculum, the goal of social awareness that impels to action. 

Activities

Social Justice Programme: Year 11 students choose a charitable institution to go and assist their work during their own time. The minimum time to spend in the chosen charity is 20 hours per student. 

Background

The educational goals of the Sacred Heart Schools include social awareness that impels to action.

Objective

To raise awareness among the Sacré Coeur School in Melbourne of social justice and environmental issues during the Lent season. 

Activities

Each year, during the season of Lent, the whole school community engages in the social awareness and fundraising campaign called Project Compassion. Project Compassion is an archdiocese wide initiative which supports the work of Caritas Australia.

Background

Among the values of the Sacred Heart Schools, there is a social awareness which impels to action, where we encourage students to act against oppression and injustice. 

Objective

To raise awareness among Year 10 classes of social justice issues, and explore philanthropy. 

Activities

Objective

To  reduce the IT gap among the elderly.

Activities

• Sign in with easy-PC programmes; 

• Training senior citizens in the use of PC; training is done by students of Kincoppal-Rose Bay School (Sydney).

Background

The Friday Night School was established in the late 1990s. The program pairs together around 400 students each week - 200 children from migrant and refugee families and 200 student tutors from local schools, mainly Catholic schools, including Sacré-Cœur. 

Objective

To promote social awareness among students that impels to action.  

Activities

• Melbourne Sacré-Cœur students visit children of migrant/refugee families each Friday night; 

Background

Aboriginal students tend to leave school earlier than their cohorts and as a consequence live with a lower standard of education.

Objective:

To improve aboriginal children and youth’s standard of education.

Activities:

1. Aboriginal students Education

• The Stuartholme Sacred Heart School (Brisbane) has partnered with the Cape York Leaders Program to educate indigenous students.

Background

A key goal of a Sacred Heart education in Australia-New Zealand  is 'a social awareness which impels to action'. At Kincoppal-Rose Bay, students are inspired to help others in need and actively engage in humanitarian initiatives.

Objective

Raise students' social awareness on indigenous culture and increase their humanitarian engagement. 

Activities  

Objective

To assist migrants' integration in Australia

Activities

Awareness raising about the migrant issue at Stuartholme School of the Sacred Heart, Brisbane.

• Yeronga State School: A group of students and teachers go to this school once a week to help with homework for refugee children. 

• Harmony Day: Year 11 welcome students from Yeronga and Milperra (a State School where refugees go in the first instance to learn English) for a day of activities at Stuartholme.