Thirteen short years. That's how long we spend at school. It's where we grow into ourselves, develop friendships and character and begin to find our place in the world.
The experiences we have, and relationships we develop over this time, are some of the most influential of our lives. At Woodleigh, we do everything we can to encourage students to be adventurous learners.
Woodleigh’s Founding Principal, Michael Norman, put it best when he said…
"We ought never to do for young people what they, with a struggle, could be expected to be doing for themselves."
From Early Childhood to the first years of Junior School, to the final days of Senior School and beyond, Woodleigh students have the space and agency to evolve. The Woodleigh experience is deeply interconnected and all students are encouraged to be adventurous in their learning.
At Woodleigh, students are known. We embrace the diversity of skills each individual brings to our community. Much more than success at school, education at Woodleigh focuses on young people having fulfilling lives in their every day, as well as preparing them for a full life in a future we can't easily anticipate. How do we do something like that? We plan, very strategically, a rigorous academic and experiential curriculum of purposefully designed learning. We ensure that when the joys and challenges come along, students will have the complex capabilities to work through them.
Discover what adventurous learning looks like in:
Junior School
At Woodleigh's Junior Schools, our students learn and discover by doing, with purpose and choice in their own learning experience.
Exploration, collaboration and reflection are not just buzzwords at Woodleigh. They are guiding principles that can inspire young minds to positively impact a future that is both challenging and full of possibilities. We believe that knowledge is not absolute, but an education with integrity builds over time. Therefore, we educate our students to ask questions, take risks and be open, balanced, and communicative as part of our school values and rigorous IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) curriculum framework.
At Woodleigh, we believe learning how to learn is akin to knowing you can problem-solve any new challenge or reflect on any new accomplishment; like starting any new adventure, we equip our students with the skills and attributes they need to navigate their individual learning journeys.
Senior School
Woodleigh Senior School is a place of academic and experiential learning. Gone are the days of memorising information of short-term relevance for the sake of a sit-down test.
Our emphasis on empowering learners to take charge of their education by participating in a globally recognised International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme and Regenerative Futures Program (RFP) sets a Woodleigh education apart and opens doors to higher education across borders.
Whilst exams are a significant part of their education and a rite of passage, further skills and attributes are accumulated over time within a courageous, principled and adventurous learning ecosystem. Students are prepared not just for exams but for life and adventure beyond the classroom.
A Woodleigh education inspires students to excel academically and embody the values of compassion, resilience and ethical responsibility in their lives and the world.
Woodleigh questions the status quo, challenges conventional thinking, and makes courageous choices about how best to engage young minds. We have always pioneered the concept of holistic education and have the courage to imagine a better world for all of us.
Welcome to Woodleigh; the School for Adventurous Minds. I invite you to visit us and experience first-hand the difference a Woodleigh education offers.
Adventurous Minds in action
