Learning
Peregian Beach College caters for students with a diverse range of talents, interests, needs and academic abilities through its vigorous and comprehensive academic program.
PREP – YEAR 6
Primary
Primary School
Primary School at Peregian Beach College
At Peregian Beach College, our Primary School (Prep to Year 6) offers an inclusive, engaging, and nurturing learning environment where every child is known, valued, and supported to thrive. We believe that strong relationships are at the heart of successful learning, and our dedicated staff build warm and respectful connections with students and their families to create a true sense of belonging.
We deliver personalised and
tailored learning programs that meet the needs of each student. By recognising and celebrating the unique strengths, interests, and learning styles of every child, we empower them to grow with confidence, creativity, and curiosity.
In the early years (Prep–Year 2), we implement InitiaLit and MiniLit, evidence-based programs grounded in the Science of Reading. These explicit and structured literacy approaches ensure every child builds a strong foundation in reading, writing and phonics, setting students up for long-term success.
Across the Primary School, our Learning Through Doing approach to mathematics engages students in hands-on, real-world problem-solving experiences. From Prep to Year 6, learners actively explore mathematical concepts in meaningful ways that build deep understanding and confidence in numeracy.
To support student wellbeing and social-emotional learning, we embed the Grow Your Mind program across the Primary School. Through focus sessions each morning and weekly lessons, students build vital skills in emotional regulation, resilience, empathy, and mindfulness. This consistent, whole-school approach strengthens wellbeing and equips students with tools to navigate challenges and thrive both in and out of the classroom.
Our commitment to excellence in teaching is reflected in our staff’s ongoing engagement in professional development. Teachers regularly participate in training and professional learning to stay current with educational research and best practice, ensuring that every child receives the most effective, evidence-informed instruction.
At Peregian Beach College, we are committed to nurturing well-rounded, lifelong learners who are inspired to think critically, act kindly, and make a positive difference in the world.
YEAR 7 – YEAR 12
Secondary
Secondary School
The Secondary School at Peregian Beach College encompasses Years 7 to 12. Our goal is to cater for all individual student pathways through the senior years by exposing our students to a wide range of subject and extra-curricular activities. In Years 7-12, our students start to branch out from homerooms and start to follow the timetable of subjects whilst moving around the faculties within the Secondary School. Through this dynamic timetable model, relationships are formed with a range of teachers, however students are still part of a homeroom group at the start of each day to monitor their pastoral wellbeing and development. The communication triangle of students, teachers and the family is still prioritised in secondary school and constant communication between these groups of people is highly encouraged.
Our curriculum in Years 7-10 is guided by the Australian Curriculum Framework and we strive to focus the majority of our timetables lessons on core Numeracy and Literacy subjects whilst still exposing our students to a wide range of other subject and faculty areas. Science, Humanities, Business, and HPE are all core subjects in these years and students get a “taste” of electives including Art, Hospitality, Digital Solutions, Fitness, Japanese, Music and Drama.
In Years 11 and 12, we follow the QCAA Senior Education syllabuses and students choose electives from lines in both General and Applied Subjects including Maths – Specialist, Methods, General; English – General and Literature; Sciences – Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Marine Science, Aquatic Practices, Psychology; Humanities – Modern History, Legal Studies, Business; Physical Education – PE, Sport & Recreation, Cert III in Fitness; Art; Hospitality; Digital Solutions.
We also pride ourselves on offering alternative pathways for students who don’t fit the traditional subject choices through QCAA but would still like to achieve either a Queensland Certificate of Education or a qualification/accreditation through an alternative provider. Peregian Beach College has a full-time teacher overseeing our Year 11 and 12 students who enrol in alternative pathways and this includes assisting them with assessments, monitoring submissions of modules, liaising with the external providers to manage students, and providing an alternative workspace for those students during those lessons in their timetable.
Outside the physical classroom, the secondary school strongly encourages student involvement in extra-curricular activities offered at the college. As well as the sporting academy programs, we also have an Outdoor Education program in every year level, a resilience project, Mind lessons which develop cognitive areas outside traditional curriculum, Movement lessons which promote physical activity and learning new skills.
Despite the more traditional subjects and electives in the Secondary School, we are still able to deliver personalised and diverse learning programs that meet the needs of each student. The teaching staff are still focused on creating and delivering differentiated lessons and resources that cater for the diverse range of students in each classroom. Students also have access to Learning Coaches within the classrooms and at the Learning Hub should they require extension or support with the curriculum.
The Peregian Beach College Secondary School is based on a common-sense approach and caters for all students on their journey through the senior years whether it is academic focused, sporting, or vocational based.
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Wellbeing
At our school, we believe that education is about academic achievement AND about developing well-rounded individuals who can navigate the complexities of life. We know that when children have the skills of resilience, emotional regulation and perspective, they will do better socially, academically and physically.
With the evidence-based, curriculum aligned, innovative Grow Your Mind and The Resilience Project programs, we aim to provide our students with the tools and resources they need to thrive in all areas of their lives.
Our school values prevention and building the skills of positive mental health habits in our students. By the time our students leave our school we want them to have a tool belt of strategies they can use and practice to help them on the path of enduring good mental health. We all have mental health and we can all learn ways to look after it. Starting early and regular practice are key.
Grow Your Mind
Grow Your Mind
Aims
Grow Your Mind is implemented within our primary sector to enhance the social and emotional learning and wellbeing of children, school staff and families through supporting them to understand mental health and form habits of resilience. The program supports our learning to develop a strong awareness of ways to protect and nurture wellbeing. This includes seeing children understand neurobiology, emotions, what a respectful relationship is and developing skills to foster a growth mindset.
Program theory
The program is built upon four pillars to promote mental health and wellbeing: positive psychology, social and emotional learning, public health and neuroscience. The program draws on the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning’s (CASEL) model of the 5 social and emotional learning competencies (self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and relationship skills) to help children. The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) underpins the pre-primary and primary school curriculum.
Topics
Topics include an introduction to 5 key parts of the brain (each with an animal to represent it), resilience, emotional literacy, empathy, courage, helpful and unhelpful thinking patterns, confidence, character strengths, values, mindfulness, emotional regulation, growth mindset, benefit mindset, respectful relationships, conflict resolution, brain health and neurotransmitters, gratitude, cultivating joy and other positive emotions, kindness and self-compassion, perspective, movement and mood.
The Resilience Project
The Resilience Project
Aims
The Resilience Project is implemented within our secondary school. The program supports our students to build and maintain social and emotional skills and strategies, and enhance resilience. It is designed to promote positive mental health strategies, improve mental health and resilience and increase positive affect and wellbeing.
Program theory
The Resilience Project is Australian Curriculum aligned and evidence-based, drawing on positive psychology and resilience theory.
Topics
The Resilience Project program focuses on strategies to cultivate positive emotion and resilience, specifically: gratitude, empathy and mindfulness (GEM), with emotional literacy a foundational skill for practicing these strategies.
Curriculum and Learning
We provide all students with the opportunity to explore a range of specialist subjects. Supporting them to step outside their comfort zones and experience academic growth that occurs when meeting new challenges.
Mind and Movement Programs
Our Mind and Movement Programs provide students with the chance to participate in extra-curricular activities outside of their normal classroom environment.
Mind and Movement
Mind and Movement Programs provide students with the chance to participate in extra-curricular activities outside of their normal classroom environment. Non-academy students are expected to take part in one mind and one movement program each term. Mind takes place on Tuesday in lesson 6. Movement takes place on Thursday in lesson 5 & 6.
We are fortunate to have programs hosted by passionate local community groups, PBC staff, and volunteers throughout the year.
Examples of Mind activities on offer are as follows:
- STEAM
- Group Instrumental Lessons
- Craft Club
- Homework Club
- Book Club
- Yoga
- Maths Enrichment
- eSports
- Magazine and Assembly Committee
Movement activities include:
- Swimming Lessons
- Gymnastics
- Net Set Go
- Pickle Ball
- Oztag
- Standup Paddleboarding
- Mountain Biking
- Kayaing
- Surfing
- Skateboarding
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Our Vision
Our vision is to educate the individual for life-long success. As a team, our aim is to provide all students at Peregian Beach College with the best possible care in a socially and academically supportive environment that optimises student learning outcomes.