About the College
Principal’s Message
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to St Clare’s College Waverley.
The College
Founded in 1884 by the Poor Clare Sisters, St Clare’s College provides a Catholic education for young women in the Franciscan tradition.
Wellbeing
The wellbeing of every St Clare’s girl is our highest priority.
Curriculum
St Clare’s College offers a wide range of subjects that provides students with the opportunity to gain confidence and engage in experiences that promote life long learning. Students are challenged to develop their academic and social skills in nurturing surroundings.
News and Events
Year 10 Design and Technology Project
Originally posted on Authentic Learning at St Clare's:
Our Year 10 Design and Technology students have commenced the process of redesigning one of our TAS rooms as part of an authentic design project. To assist in the process, Jude Watson from Black Sheep Design shared his thoughts with both Year 10 classes today. Jude was able to walk the girls through the design process he uses when taking on a new brief. Following Jude’s talk the girls had the opportunity to ask questions relating to their project as well as what…
Year 7 Zoo Excursion
On Tuesday 25th July, Year 7 students participated in a Science excursion to Taronga Zoo to have a hands on experience exploring the concepts of adaptation and classification of animal species. The day commenced with a screening of a film that informed us about the different endangered species and how to save them. An example was how turtles are endangered due to plastic bag pollution in the oceans as they mistake the plastics bags for food such as jellyfish. We then met a zookeeper who was with her seal friend Charlie, who… Read More
Coding at St Clare’s
Originally posted on Authentic Learning at St Clare's:
Our Year 9 IST students have been getting familiar with their Makeblock robots. Both the mBot and mBot Ranger have been a big hit as the girls start to use the MBlockly app to code the robots to move in different directions. We also purchased an Airblock which is Makeblock’s drone for students. Last week we allowed the girls a little ‘free flying’ time to see if they were able to control the drone using the simple controls on the iPad. The results…
NCSS Challenge
Originally posted on Authentic Learning at St Clare's:
Today marks the start of an exciting five week challenge for a number of our students. Nine of our girls are participating in the National Computer Science School (NCSS) Challenge. The NCSS Challenge is run by Grok Learning, a new education start-up from the University of Sydney. The NCSS Challenge teaches students to code in Python 3.6. Python is an easy to learn scripting language used for many different purposes such as web applications and scientific research. Companies like Google, Facebook and Reddit all…
