Staff
As a Catholic-Christian College, our Staff affirm the following as central to the Catholic-Christian nature of Galen Catholic College:
It focuses on the total development - spiritual, moral, social, emotional, intellectual - of the individual child. In doing this, it provides a context for each child's natural creativity to emerge and it stimulates a deep sensitivity to all existence.
It enhances the dignity of each person. Therefore, its structures are liberating rather than constraining. It has a tolerance of failure and a commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation. It stresses the growth of the individual rather than the formation of people according to a set of narrow, preconceived expectations.
It stresses that education is a call to service, not merely a means of gaining material prosperity. Its pronouncements and its procedures show that it values the achievements and affirms the personal worth of every child, not just the talented and the highly motivated.
It values openness. This is seen in the quality of relationships existing between its members - children, teachers, parents, pastors - in a general openness to criticism and renewal, and in the establishing and maintenance of structures that invite and facilitate involvement.
It seeks truth. Hence, young minds are coaxed open rather than indoctrinated. The curriculum is designed in such a way that pupils develop an openness to truth, a tolerance of different views and an ability to judge critically and become inner-directed.
It is characterised by hopefulness. Its graduates will move into a world which can, and must, be renewed, reconstructed, regenerated. They must see themselves, with God's help and as part of his plan, as being able to make a difference. Because of this, pessimism and alienation from the world have no place in a Catholic school.
It is an instrument of authentic liberation. Its task is to set children free - from fear, from self-absorption, from aimlessness, from despair, from consumerism, from petty ambition. It does this through the vision it offers and through the living witness that its members maintain.