St Aug’s welcomes new changes for 2025 school year

At 11.15am, teachers joined staff from 50 other schools for the Magnify Sandhurst launch livestream.

The new program, which has been implemented in classrooms from the first day of this school year, aims to have students learning and behaving the same as other students in Sandhurst schools.

The new strategy is said to streamline lesson planning, with all schools receiving the same curated lesson plans made by qualified teachers.

Stepping into the principal role this year, Tim Campbell is embracing the new teaching program with open arms.

“(Magnify Sandhurst) is about getting consistent practice with what we’re doing that is going to help improve our (students’) results across the board,” he said.

Mr Campbell said education was not the only focus of the program; it would also look at standardising classroom behaviour and improving the wellbeing of students across the board.

All students across the Sandhurst diocese will be greeted outside the classroom the same way and will be asked to quieten down the same way.

Mr Campbell said consistency was key.

“We’re hoping that consistency will help all the teachers, but also give learning time back to the kids,” he said.

Catholic Education Sandhurst Ltd executive director Kate Fogarty said the program would be rolled out from 2025 to 2027 in phases.

She said the program was developed through a mix of evidence-based practices in teaching and learning in an aim to improve literacy and numeracy in all Sandhurst schools and limit workload for teachers.

“One of the key goals of the Magnify Sandhurst approach is to ease the workload of teachers, allowing them to focus more on how they teach rather than what they teach,” she said.

“By following a well-structured, sequential curriculum, teachers will work together to deliver the best possible education.”

Read about when the Free Press sat down with Mrs Fogarty to discuss the Magnify Sandhurst program.