Junior School (Prep - Year 6)
Prep to Year 6
Building the foundations for lifelong learning
WestMAC’s Junior School is renowned for offering an extensive range of opportunities tailored to your child’s interests — right from their earliest years. Led by our team of experienced and dedicated teachers, our Junior students are inspired to discover and explore their potential, while fostering a love of learning from the start of their education journey. Our classrooms encourage creative and critical thinking within a nurturing environment, recognising that every child learns differently and will experience unique challenges.
Meet our Junior School leadership team
In the early years at WestMAC, our Head of School, Kirsten Mullan, works together with Deputies Jamie Rudd and Matthew Caldwell, Leader of Learning Enrichment Lateticia Strohben, and the wider Junior School staff, to ensure every child is known, nurtured and encouraged from day one.
Confidence at the core of every lesson
We know how important it is for our Junior School students to feel safe and supported as they learn new skills and discover their potential. That’s why we focus on developing age-appropriate literacy and numeracy understanding, underpinned by a confidence-building and strengths-based learning approach.
Beyond academics, our teachers focus on each child’s social and emotional development, earning our College a reputation for providing calm and productive classrooms, designed to maximise learning potential.
Explore our Junior campus
We place a strong emphasis on creating a campus that inspires curiosity, fosters creativity and supports the holistic development of every child, both when inside the classroom and engaged in outdoor activities. Our purpose-built facilities and specially designed playgrounds are positioned thoughtfully throughout our open-air, leafy grounds — creating an ideal environment for exploration, learning and play in harmony with nature.
Junior School classrooms are equipped with digital technologies for interactive learning and the opportunity to develop digital skills in a safe and supervised environment.
Technology in our Junior classrooms
The integration of technology into the Junior School curriculum focused on equipping students with the digital literacy skills outlined in the Australian Curriculum V9 including managing digital safety, privacy and wellbeing, investigating and interpreting data, creating and exchanging digital content, and operating digital tools confidently. Junior School classrooms are equipped with an interactive TV and have access to a range of digital technology including iPads and laptops as well as tools including Bee-Bots.
Outdoor education that sparks curiosity
Our Junior students participate in age-appropriate outdoor education experiences that encourage curiosity, teamwork and confidence. From on-campus discovery days in the early years to short overnight camps in later primary years, each experience is intentionally designed to help students develop resilience, strengthen friendships and explore the world around them in a safe, supported way.
Creative arts in the Junior years
At WestMAC, we encourage each of our students to express their creativity through the arts. Our classroom Music Program begins in Prep and includes an opportunity for students to learn strings in Year 3 and participate in a band program in Year 5. Alongside this program, we offer private music tuition, choirs, Concert Band, small ensembles, and a Junior School Dance group, where students can build confidence, explore different styles and enjoy performing as part of a team.
Building confidence through sport
Sport plays a valuable role in your child’s development during the Junior years. We offer a wide range of age-appropriate physical education experiences — from fun, skill-building sessions to Inter-House competitions and team events. Our goal is to build strong foundations for a healthy, active lifestyle and help every child discover the joy of movement and team spirit.
Dandiiri in our Junior years
Integral to our College curriculum is our Indigenous Perspectives (Dandiiri) Program, which is intentionally woven through our Junior School curriculum and extracurricular activities. Our goal is to expose students to the ancient wisdom and 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal peoples. Through Dandiiri, your child will have authentic opportunities to connect with First Nations peoples’ ways of knowing, viewing and relating to the world.
West Moreton Anglican College respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul People of the Yugara/Yagara Language Group, as custodians of the land and waters we share.