Learning Centres - Mercy College

On behalf of the staff and students of the Mercy College Junior Learning Centre I wish to extend to all a warm welcome. At Mercy we believe our role as educators is to entrust our students with developing those lifelong skills, bodies of knowledge, understandings and values that will enable them to thrive in a changing and challenging world. We recognise that education does not only occur in school, or is the exclusive task of teachers. The education process is lifelong; therefore we not only encourage parental and community support, our success is dependent upon it. Our goal is to exemplify, in the words of the Mercy College vision, that "The Glory of God is a person fully alive".

The Junior Learning Centre (JLC) works in close partnership with the Middle Learning Centre (MLC) and Senior Learning Centres (SLC) of Mercy College in order to make best use of common resources and to provide coordinated and sequential learning experiences for the students. It is located on two distinct sites within the Mercy College campus.

Mr Joe Bartucciotto
Head of
Junior Learning Centre
Kindergarten to Year 6

Email Mr Bartucciotto

Email Mrs Jackie Holbrook
Assistant Principal JLC

Mrs Mary-Ann Morley
Assistant Principal JLC
Yr 4 -Yr 6

The Kindy to yr3 sector of the Junior Learning Centre (JLC) is located on the Beach Rd side of the campus and the yr4 to 6 learning area are located on the Mirrabooka Ave side. The JLC's shared vision is to ensure that our students receive access to those learning opportunities that enable them to attain their full potential in their spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual lives.Fundamental to the appropriate development of all students is the quality of the learning and teaching program employed. The Junior Learning Centre's emphasis on outcome based learning ensures that the desired result of any educational experience is clearly defined and known by all parties. It thereby shifts the emphasis away from what is being taught to what is being learnt by each student.

Another crucial aspect determining the quality of the learning program is the assessment techniques employed to plot progress made by each student. Accurate assessments enable educators to determine what needs to be done to remediate areas of deficiencies and provide follow up or when appropriate, extension activities when concepts are well understood. To this end the assessment practices employed by the Junior Learning Centre in accordance with the Curriculum Framework, ensure that any and all assessment

Provides valid information about students' performances,
Contributes to the learning of the student,
Is explicit thereby ensuring the basis upon which judgements
are made are clear,
Is fair to all students, and
Is based on multiple kinds and sources of evidence

Being the entry point to Mercy College for many students the Junior Learning Centre endeavours to establish, mirror and reinforce the rules and procedures of the College at an appropriate level. The discipline techniques focus on the individual and ensure that each student participates in the creation of the rules relevant to them.With the coordinated, collaborative and cooperative approach to the education of students in our care we envisage that we will not fill the students with information but rather light in them a burning desire to become lifelong learners.

Knowing the rules clearly allows students to make informed choices. There are many levels of rewards associated with making the correct choices along with consequences associated with making the choice to break these rules.