Educating strong, passionate and confident girls and young women.
An independent Catholic day and boarding school for girls and young people from Early Learning to Year 12
Welcome to Loreto College
I extend a warm welcome to you as you explore Loreto College, Marryatville, a beacon of girls’ education in Adelaide, South Australia. As you embark on this exploration, I invite you to experience the profound legacy of the Loreto sisters, which has been a guiding light of academic excellence, holistic development, and spiritual growth since 1905.
Here at Loreto College Marryatville, we cater to the holistic educational needs of students from Early Learning to Year 12. The Loreto difference lies in our unwavering commitment to personal growth through a purposefully guided focus on Learning and Wellbeing.
Our approach emphasises the importance of learning by fostering a love for knowledge and critical thinking within an environment dedicated to nurturing the physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of our students. This harmonious commitment to learning ensures that our graduates emerge not only academically adept but also instilled with compassion, resilience, social responsibility, and readiness for the future.
We are proud to be a future-focused school, continually evolving to meet the changing needs of education. As the school of choice and excellence, we empower young minds to participate and embrace the opportunities afforded by our traditional and contemporary approaches to education. Our goal is that when students graduate from Loreto they do so with strength, passion and confidence, ready to navigate their educational journey and contribute to their community.
I wholeheartedly encourage you to experience the Loreto College difference firsthand by joining one of our College tours. During these events, you’ll have the chance to meet our dedicated staff, engage with our remarkable students, and witness our world-class facilities and educational philosophy in action. We look forward to welcoming you into our vibrant community.
Kylie McCullah Principal
History and Values
Spanning more than 400 years, the Loreto education tradition was first inspired by the foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), Mary Ward, and established in the Australian context by Gonzaga Barry ibvm in the late 19th Century.
Mary Ward was an inspirational leader, believing passionately that “women, in time to come, will do much”. This foundation for female education focused on creating girls and women who were “seekers of truth and doers of justice” to take action to improve the world for others.
Loreto schools encapsulate the beliefs and spirit of Mary Ward in delivering an education which inspires strong, passionate, and confident girls and young women. These characteristics can be seen most clearly in our girls and these traits differentiate us from other schools.
All Loreto schools in Australia share the same set of values which are at the heart of our educational philosophy and shape our identity as a school.
Freedom
Mary Ward’s understanding of freedom flowed from her personal relationship with God and her belief that each one of us, in our ordinary experience of life, has access to God’s loving care. It is an inner freedom, acceptance of self, an openness to and with others, and a trust in life.
Justice
Justice, as Mary Ward describes, involves personal integrity based on harmonious relationships with God, with other people, and with the whole of creation. It is expressed in “works of justice”, in active participation in the struggle to bring about such harmony. We are challenged “to be seekers of truth and doers of justice”.
Sincerity
Sincerity is our communication and relationship with others – an essential characteristic of the personal integrity Mary Ward envisaged. Her ideal was that “we should be such as we appear and appear such as we are”.
Verity
Closely linked to sincerity is Mary Ward’s concept of verity. For her it means integrity and truth, particularly the profound truth of who we are and what gives meaning to our lives, a truth that centres fundamentally on the gift of life and mystery of God.
Felicity
Felicity is an attitude of mind, a disposition of the heart which manifests itself in cheerfulness, good humour, joy, happiness, hope, optimism, friendliness, courtesy, positive thinking, inner peace, self-acceptance, and courage.
Global Community
Celebrating more than 120 years of education in Adelaide, Loreto College Marryatville is one of six Loreto schools across Australia.
Our sister schools are located in New South Wales (Kirribilli and Normanhurst), Victoria (Toorak and Ballarat), and Queensland (Coorparoo).
Together with over 150 Loreto schools worldwide, we share a strong belief in the education of girls.
This extensive network offers us both strength and unity, providing a platform to share resources and best educational practices on a national and global scale. As a result, Loreto schools are renowned as leading independent girls’ schools, producing outstanding academic results and graduates who are sought after in employment.
Social Justice
Our Social Justice Program involves all students from Reception to Year 12 in a range of activities to benefit the lives of others. This
program speaks to the heart of a Loreto education, developing empathy, compassion, personal integrity, courage, and the capacity to reflect on one’s own actions.
Many of our activities support Mary Ward International Australia (MWIA), which is the Australian and International development organisation of the Loreto Sisters. MWIA strives to make a difference in education, community development, human rights, social justice, and the empowerment of women and children.
The girls are active in social justice initiatives at the College including Pink and Green Day and Mission Day as well as fundraising and volunteering efforts for our Vietnam, Cambodia and India pilgrimages.
Why a Girls’ School?
Girls’ schools do more than just teach the curriculum and offer a range of sporting and co-curricular opportunities – all schools do that. What girls’ schools do is purposefully develop girls to understand and to shape their selfconcept, self-efficacy, and self-confidence. In this way students learn to develop the knowledge and skills required to reject and overcome the gender stereotypes that attempt to define them. Schooling is so much more than academic outcomes – certainly, these open doors, but it is the other skills that young women develop, in relation to their confidence and belief in themselves, that keeps these doors open.
Societal gender imbalances that we see represented in different professions and life outcomes (such as equal pay and leadership acquisition) are more likely to be influenced from school age if social and cultural influences that exist outside of school are then replicated within it.
Our job as educators of girls is to ensure that your daughters are equipped with the knowledge and skills to overcome these challenges and thus to actively erode these norms and achieve socially equitable life outcomes.
Through the purposeful education of girls in a single-sex environment, girls are more likely to:
n achieve higher academic outcomes
n develop the skills to critically evaluate gender stereotypes and inequality
n have higher participation rates in science, maths, and technology subjects
n develop a greater understanding of leadership
n develop a greater sense of identity, voice, and confidence
n embrace a spirit of healthy competition
Loreto Education Model
The Loreto Education Model provides a framework to assist the College in meeting the learning, wellbeing, and holistic needs of the girls and young women in our care. This framework recognises the interrelationship of these educational areas as well as the changing developmental needs of girls.
Loreto students are inherently strong, passionate, and confident girls and young women. We employ targeted and systemic approaches which facilitate personal growth and academic development to enrich the individual student.
Encompassing all that we do in our education of girls and young women are the Loreto values of Freedom, Justice, Sincerity, Verity, and Felicity. These values reflect and shape the underlying culture of the College and sustain our focus on the development of compassionate, kind, respectful, and positive individuals who believe in and practise Christian values.
Having an open mind and heart ensures that Loreto girls are always tolerant and empathetic towards others. Such an approach enables our girls to become responsible and ethical citizens who will shape their future world for the betterment of themselves and society.
For girls to flourish they must be provided with a supportive environment, both pastorally and academically, where they feel challenged to strive for their best.
Academic success must be accompanied with a growing sense of independence, confidence in self and a strong voice that is willing to engage in respectful dialogue and debate. To achieve this outcome, girls must be purposefully developed in all areas of their personal and academic learning.
Positive academic outcomes must be accompanied with a sense of inquiry and belief that improvement and growth comes through perseverance, effort and hard work. However, learning does not just take place within the classroom. Engagement in physical and cultural activities ensures that girls are also shaped holistically in their development of self.
The Loreto Education Model is therefore a beliefs and values based framework that provides strategies for the delivery of our foremost educational objective – educating strong, passionate, and confident girls and young women in the Loreto tradition.
Resilience, perseverance and grit
Identity and sense of purpose
LEAR N I GN GNIEBLLEW H OLISTIC
Kindness and empathy
WELLBEING
Responsible online engagement
Social and emotional intelligence
Authentic relationships and connectedness
LORETO GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN
Inquiry processes
Transference of knowledge and skills
Critical and creative thinking
LEARNING
Growth mindset
Academic tenacity
Passion for learning
flourishing within a supportive environment the quest for knowledge and understanding
Physical health
Intercultural and global understanding
Societal and ecological awareness
HOLISTIC
Leadership and voice
Personal pursuits
Faith and Catholic values
Wellbeing/SEAD Framework
The Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) Program acknowledges the important integration between the social, emotional and academic aspects of girls’ development from Early Learning to Year 12. The integration of social and emotional skill development in conjunction with academic learning outcomes ensures that students develop holistically as strong and confident girls and young women. This targeted and sequential program acknowledges the phases of girls’ transition from childhood to young adulthood and the challenges and rewards that accompany each stage of development.
During their stages of maturation, girls are not only developing their identity but also creating the foundations upon which they will build their future wellbeing and personal success. Thus, the SEAD Program is aimed at facilitating girls’ understanding of themselves as learners, responsible citizens, and as positive friends, subsequently facilitating personal achievement both at school and in life.
The SEAD Program is delivered by teachers during dedicated timetabled lessons. The program is also complemented by sessions with external providers as well as other out-of-the
JUNIOR SCHOOL ELC
Birth - Preschool
Belonging
Discovering who I am
Immersing in family and community values
Recognising my feelings
Developing my sense of independence
Learning ways to communicate
Building connections with others
Experiencing trust in relationships
Exploring my ideas through play
Meeting developmental milestones
Exploring technologies
Exploring concepts of trade through play
Future Pathways
Discovering my interests and strengths
Reception - Year 2
Learning about Me!
Learning about myself
Learning about values
Understanding my feelings
Learning my independence
Finding my voice Making friends
Learning about relationships
Understanding myself as a learner
Learning about goals
Learning about being online
Learning financial awareness
Learning about who I can be
Years 3 & 4
Who am I?
Finding my identity
Finding my values
Building a toolkit to help me respond to my feelings
Developing autonomy
Building my voice and taking charge
Being a good friend
Building my relationships
Developing a growth mindset as a learner
Understanding and planning my learning goals
Developing online literacy and learning safe online practices
Developing financial literacy
Developing a broad understanding of my future
Years 5 & 6
Developing Resilience
Accepting myself
Understanding my values and ethical decision making
Using my toolkit to develop emotional resilience
Becoming self-sufficient
Having a voice and becoming a leader
Being inclusive of others
Exploring new relationships
Applying a growth mindset to my learning
Setting goals and working towards my personal best
Understanding online etiquette and practising safe behaviours online
Applying my financial and entrepreneurial understanding
Exploring my future identities
classroom learning experiences, such as our Co-Curricular and Outdoor Education Programs, both of which are aimed at building girls’ confidence, strength, and leadership capacity.
In addition, through our Learning Management System, Loreto Connect, students and parents can access resources on topics such as study skills, e-safety, drugs and alcohol, sleep hygiene, mindfulness, growth mindset, and friendships.
In 2019, the year of the program’s inception, Loreto College was identified by “The Educator” as one of 44 schools in Australia that
Years 7 & 8
Creating Connections
Celebrating being me
Applying my values in responsible decision making
Expanding my toolkit to respond to my emotions
Mastering my transition to secondary school
Maintaining my voice and exploring leadership
Building friendships
Broadening my relationships
Exploring my strengths as a learner
Developing effective study skills and planning for success
Applying safe practices and being respectful online
Expanding my financial and commercial literacy
Investigating future pathways
are leading innovation and change in education. Since then, Loreto College has been the only South Australian school to reach the finals three times in the Education Awards for Best Wellbeing Program: in 2022, 2023 and 2025.
SENIOR SCHOOL
Years 9 & 10
Building Communities
Having a positive identity
Being true to my values through wise decision making
Developing self-regulation
Taking responsibility
Having a positive voice and stepping up to leadership
Accepting and respecting others
Understanding and constructing positive relationships
Becoming an autonomous learner
Applying effective study skills and striving for personal excellence
Understanding my online identity and engaging safely, positively and responsibly online
Being financially literate and planning for my future
Broadening my identity and understanding of my future
Years 11 & 12
Stepping into My Future
Shaping the woman I will become
Confirming my values through principled decision making
Applying self-regulation
Being self-directed
Believing in my voice and role modelling leadership
Celebrating others
Cultivating strong and healthy relationships
Demonstrating independence in my learning
Demonstrating self-efficacy as a learner and setting goals for my future
Modelling a positive self-image and being safe and responsible online
Demonstrating fiscal cognisance
Planning for my career and tertiary pathway
Early Learning Centre
Loreto Early Learning Centre (ELC) is a dynamic learning environment which encourages exploration and play, allowing children to develop a sense of identity and belonging. Established in 2018, the Loreto ELC achieved an ‘Exceeding’ rating in all areas assessed against the National Quality Standards within 12 months of opening. Located in a beautiful heritage house on our historic grounds, the Loreto Early Learning Centre operates from 7.30am to 6.00pm for 50 weeks of the year and caters for children through four different programs:
n Gumnut (6 weeks to 20 months)
n Wattle (20 months to 3 years)
n Banksia (3 years to 4 years)
n Pre-school (4 to 5 years)
All programs are led by experienced Early Childhood teachers and educators. Educators use intentional teaching practices, providing hands-on investigations that reflect each child’s individual curiosities, experiences, and developmental needs.
Children make sense of their world through active engagement with educators, other children, and their learning environment. Learning in the Early Learning Centre is a reciprocal process that encourages children to ask questions, communicate ideas, and reflect on their experiences.
Early literacy and numeracy learning experiences are combined with storytelling, music, art, design, and movement to form the integral components of each program, nurturing new thoughts and deeper understanding. An essential element of our Early Learning Centre is our beautiful nature garden. Here our children discover the joys of imaginative play and experience the wonder and excitement of exploring the natural world. We support children and families through the transitions between home and early learning, and early learning and school. Our focus on learning facilitates a sense of connectedness between the College and our families and ensures a supportive and enriching learning environment for all children.
Preschool
Loreto College Preschool caters for children from four to five years of age. Our Preschool is a place of warmth and welcome, located on our vibrant Junior School Learning campus.
We honour the uniqueness of each preschool child and provide a safe and secure environment that nurtures a strong sense of belonging, connection, and wellbeing. Through play-based learning experiences, open-ended provocations, and inquiry projects, our Preschool children are encouraged to explore, imagine, innovate, take risks, investigate, problem solve, and engage in critical thinking.
Fostering confidence and independence, our program provides opportunities for our Preschool learners to construct new ideas and deepen their understandings of all that is possible.
Surrounded by beautiful gardens and nature play spaces, our children experience the wonder and excitement of exploring the natural environment. Children make sense of their world through active engagement, and this learning invites collaboration, focused discussion, and the sharing of new questions and thoughts.
With guidance from our experienced Early Childhood teachers and educators, our
Preschool children co-construct their own learning and develop skills of listening, sharing, negotiating, and teamwork.
Early literacy, numeracy, and inquiry learning experiences are combined with science, art, drama, dance, design, and physical movement to form the integral components of our Preschool Program. Working in partnership, our curriculum celebrates and reflects the histories, cultures, and traditions of our children and their families.
Children enjoy specialist lessons in Music, PE, and Chinese, and borrow books each week from our Junior School Library. Preschool children also participate in the Loreto Preschool - Year 4 musical showcase as well as other College events such as Book Week, Preschool - Year 2 Sports Day, ELC - Year 11 art exhibition, and Grandparents’ Day.
When our Preschool children are ready to start school, our transition program ensures they feel secure, confident, and ready to move into a school setting. Equipped with school readiness skills and positive dispositions for learning, our Preschool children are competent learners well-prepared for new experiences.
Junior School
The Junior School offers an engaging and dynamic learning environment where teams of highly qualified and experienced educators collaborate to build strong foundations for lifelong learning success.
The journey begins in the Junior Primary Learning Precinct, where our students explore their creativity, develop new ideas, and build positive friendships in a nurturing and supportive setting.
Our vibrant classrooms foster a strong sense of belonging and are designed to inspire curiosity, wonder, and a passion for learning. We deliver a structured and rigorous academic program that emphasises explicit and systematic teaching, ensuring that every student is included and supported in their learning journey. Students are encouraged to think critically and creatively, solve problems, and make meaningful connections between their learning and the real world.
With an awareness of our evolving global society, Loreto students engage in social entrepreneurialism and leadership for action. They develop intercultural understanding, kindness, and respect for others, supported by the School’s Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) Program, which empowers them to flourish and achieve success.
Through personalised learning experiences, our students develop confidence, resilience, and self-reflective skills, enabling them to become independent learners. They are inspired to innovate, collaborate, and take ownership of their learning, actively shaping new possibilities.
Key learning areas
n English
n Mathematics
n Science
n Humanities and Social Sciences
n Health and Physical Education
n The Arts (Music, Drama, Dance, Visual and Media Arts)
n Languages (Chinese - Mandarin)
n Religious Education
n Technologies
Learning is meaningful and rewarding, enriched by a wide range of co-curricular, leadership, and enrichment opportunities. These include our renowned performing arts program, along with extensive music, dance, and sporting experiences.
Beyond the classroom, students extend their learning into natural play spaces, the vegetable garden, playgrounds, and our many outdoor spaces. The Junior School is a place of discovery and deep learning, where confidence and a love of learning are nurtured in a dynamic, contemporary environment.
Senior School
Our students study a comprehensive curriculum which encourages them to be creative and critical thinkers.
In Year 7, students learn Digital Technologies, Food Technology, Creative Technologies, Languages, Drama, Visual Arts, Music, and the core curriculum areas. This gives the students an essential foundation for their Year 8 studies, including Musical Theatre, Food Technology, Digital Design Solutions, Creative Technologies, Languages, Music, Drama, Musical Theatre and Visual Arts. In addition, girls can enter a Specialist Netball Program as part of the curriculum, developing expertise in this sport and an understanding of biomechanics, nutrition, coaching, and umpiring.
In Year 9, students again broaden their learning through courses including Specialist Netball, Musical Theatre, Music, Drama, Food Technology, Digital Media and Design, Visual Arts, and Languages.
Year 10 students have greater choice and flexibility in the design of their studies, including several STEM courses such as Biochemistry, Engineering and Space Science, Environmental Science, Health Science, Digital Design Solutions, Food Technology, Creative Technologies, and Specialist Netball. Year 10
students can also elect to further study the Humanities through History: People and Power and Innovation in a Global Economy. Students can also continue studying Languages, Music, Musical Theatre, Drama and Visual Arts.
In Years 11 and 12, the curriculum is delivered through the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE). Our Year 12 students consistently accomplish exceptional results, and many achieve SACE Merits across a broad range of subjects. Likewise, in the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), Year 12 students achieve exceptional results, with almost fifty percent performing in the top ten percent of the state.
Boarding and International Students
The Loreto Boarding House is located on our beautiful campus in Adelaide’s leafy eastern suburbs. It is well serviced by public transport and is only ten minutes from Adelaide’s CBD and 30 minutes from Adelaide Airport’s domestic and international terminals.
Our Boarding House cultivates initiative and self-reliance in students so that they act both independently and responsibly. With accommodation for up to 60 girls, our Boarding House is home to girls from Adelaide, regional South Australia, interstate, and overseas. Our staff are focused on creating a community of care for young women from Years 7 to 12 as either full-time or weekly Boarders.
Our Boarding program is designed to ensure that girls’ academic as well as wellbeing needs are met whilst living in their home away from home. To achieve this objective, we have implemented our Social, Emotional and Academic Development (SEAD) Program, which provides a framework in order to care for our girls holistically within the Day and Boarding environment. This program ensures that we focus on the development of girls’ emotional intelligence, resilience, adaptive skills, and growth mindset; thus, assisting our Boarders in the development of the skills needed to live away from home.
The Senior Director of Boarding and Boarding staff meet regularly with the Boarders, both individually and in year level groups, to ensure each girl is thriving and seeking to reach her potential. We recognise that the transition from home into Boarding is a big step for students and parents alike.
Our Boarding staff are empathetic to the needs of girls and young women and our Senior Boarding Students, led by our Boarding Leaders, ensure that younger and new students feel a sense of belonging to the Boarding community. Areas of particular focus within the Boarding environment include sleep hygiene, study success, physical activity, socialemotional skills, and nutrition. All new Boarders are also supported in their transition from home through our ‘Little Sister’ program, in which an older student mentors a new student. In addition, the Boarding staff conduct homesickness programs for all girls as well as providing support for parents.
The focus on girls’ wellbeing and academic care, whilst acknowledging and respecting the needs of the individual, makes Boarding at Loreto an ideal choice for your daughter.
When Boarding at Loreto girls are provided with:
n Academic support, including supervised study sessions
n Access to gym and cardio facilities
n Health and wellbeing programs
n Access to an on-site Counsellor
n A Head Chef who provides nutritious meals and caters for any specific dietary needs
n An on-site Health Care Centre staffed by a Registered Nurse
n A school environment that is conducive to high academic achievement through structured support
Support and Enrichment
At Loreto we support students in achieving their learning outcomes through both support and enrichment strategies. One of the most powerful strategies that teachers can use to improve student learning outcomes is the analysis of student performance data. As a school, we are continually assessing the ways in which both teachers and students use this data to devise strategies and set goals for improvement.
Our Loreto Analytics Program provides a data dashboard for every student and class in the College, thus giving our teachers easy access to data that will then assist them in knowing and supporting individual student learning needs. In addition to this, students also monitor and review their own academic progress in order to devise learning targets and strategies for further development. In this way, our girls establish a growth mindset and take charge of their learning journey and outcomes.
Loreto Analytics supports our student tracking model, whereby key staff review all students from Reception to Year 12 on a fortnightly basis in order to monitor and track students’ academic and wellbeing outcomes and implement appropriate interventions when necessary.
Girls in Years 7 to 12 are also supported through our Homework Centre which provides supervised study until 6pm each weeknight as well as through other programs such as Maths Help.
Girls with specific health and learning needs are supported by our Learning Enrichment Team as well as our College Counsellor and College Nurse.
Co-curricular Opportunities
At Loreto College, our girls consistently achieve strong academic results in an environment that balances academic rigour with a wide range of co-curricular opportunities including clubs, camps, retreats, competitions, international trips, music, performing arts, and sport. Participation in co-curricular opportunities helps to build girls’ confidence through the development of their leadership, public speaking, creativity, and teamwork skills as well as fostering a love of learning and inquiry. Our Junior and Senior Students can enjoy a vast array of co-curricular opportunities throughout the calendar year.
Junior School Co-Curricular
n Art Club
n Ballet
n Chess Club
n Robotics Club
n da Vinci Decathlon
n Debating
n Environment Club
n Botany Club
n ICAS Competitions
n National History Competitions
n Oliphant Science Awards
n Ethics Olympiad
n Poetry Competitions
n Public Speaking
n Tournament of Minds
n Write a Book in a Day
n Young Writer’s Award
Senior School Co-Curricular
n Big Science Competition
n Chemistry Quiz
n da Vinci Decathlon
n Debating
n Evatt Competition
n Brain Bee Challenge
n Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
n Environment Club
n Ethics Olympiad
n Indigenous Garden Club
n Mock Trials
n National History Competition
n Oliphant Science Awards
n Lion’s Youth of the Year Quest
n ICAS Competitions
n Premier’s Anzac Spirit School Prize
n Rostrum Voice of Youth
n Simpson Prize
n Robotics Club
n Social Justice Groups
n Tournament of Minds
n Write a Book in a Day
n Young Writer’s Award
n Evatt Competition
Sport at Loreto
Loreto College has a record of outstanding sporting accomplishments in a wide range of co-curricular endeavours. Our dynamic sporting programs empower our students to cultivate a spirit of teamwork and healthy competition. The focus is on participation, friendship, and active involvement.
Participating in sport develops valuable skills such as commitment, communication, and problem solving as well as helping to build organisation and time management skills.
Moreover, participation in sporting activities provides an opportunity to learn the importance of patience, perseverance, hard work, and resilience.
These experiences are further enriched through our partnership with the Adelaide Thunderbirds, which provides students with inspiring opportunities to engage with elite athletes, gain insight into high-performance environments and learn firsthand about leadership, discipline and wellbeing in professional sport.
In addition to the sporting pursuits available, the College participates in Interschool Carnivals in Athletics and Swimming, Aerobics, and Cross Country competitions, as well as state-wide Knockout Sport Competitions and National Rowing Championships.
Junior School Sports
n Aerobics
n AFLW
n Basketball
n Come & Try Rowing
n Cross Country
n Hockey/Minkey
n Indoor Volleyball
n Netball
n Soccer
n Softball/T-Ball
n Tennis
n Touch Football
Senior School Sports
n Aerobics
n AFLW
n Badminton
n Basketball
n Cross Country
n Hockey
n Indoor Volleyball
n Netball
n Rowing
n Soccer
n Tennis
n Touch Football
n Water Polo
Music and Performing Arts at Loreto
At Loreto College, we recognise the vital role of the Performing Arts in nurturing a child’s creative, social, and analytical development. Engaging in the Performing Arts fosters confidence, independence, and collaboration. Our music program provides a rich, sequential, and engaging musical experience for students from Early Learning through to Year 12, including elective music courses in Years 8, 9, 10, and SACE Stage 1 and 2.
Drama is integrated throughout the Junior School curriculum, and Senior School students can study Drama from Year 7 through to SACE Stage 2. Additionally, Musical Theatre is offered in Years 8, 9, and 10.
Our vibrant Performing Arts calendar features exciting events including the annual Performing Arts Festival and the biennial Cabaret. Musicals are a highlight, with an annual Year 5 Musical and a Senior School Musical staged every alternate year.
The Senior School also hosts a co-curricular Drama production, as well as Drama and Musical Theatre presentations by year level. Students can further showcase their musical talents at the Generations in Jazz Festival, the ABODA Band Festival, and the Catholic Schools Music Festival, in addition to participating in College concerts, assemblies, and various events through co-curricular programs
including choirs, Concert Band, Stage Band, Vocal Ensembles, String Ensembles, and chamber groups.
In the Junior School, students engage in whole-class immersion programs, with a String Program in Year 3 and a Band Program in Year 5. These programs, led by professional instrumental tutors, introduce, and develop students’ skills in playing musical instruments, culminating in a formal concert where students perform both as individuals and in groups.
We also offer individual tuition in Voice, Speech and Drama, and Instrumental studies on campus, provided by professional Music Tutors for students from Reception through to Year 12.
Facilities
Purpose-built resources and facilities together with open and bright classroom spaces complement our beautiful green spaces within the College grounds. In addition, our Chapel is centrally located, providing a sacred space at the heart of the school for reflection and celebration.
The College’s Master Plan, designed by Woods Bagot, is focused on ensuring the School’s physical assets remain consistent with the focus on staff and student learning. Facilities include:
n Art Centre
n Boarding Precinct
n Commercial Kitchens for Food Design & Technology
n Early Learning Centre and nature playground
n Green spaces, including indigenous garden and heritage gardens
n Gymnasium
n Senior School Information Resource Centre
n Junior School Library
n Junior School Multi-Media Lab and STEM Lab
n Senior School Tinker Lab
n Lecture Theatre
n Lumination Learning Lab
n Music Centre
n Outdoor Learning Areas
n Performing Arts Centre, including professional theatre
n Science Centre
n Tennis Courts
n Textiles Lab
n The heritage Acacias House
Environmental Sustainability
There has never been a more important time to respond to the needs of our environment by changing our practices for the benefit of our planet and our children’s future. We have a social and ethical responsibility to both educate our students on environmental issues as well as implement practices as a College that help facilitate environmental sustainability. In order to do this, various initiatives have been established.
Solar Power
Solar power is one of the most viable forms of renewable energy available and as such it is seen as an appropriate way for the College to start reducing the carbon footprint that we leave on the environment. The solar power systems initiative has replaced a third of the whole campus electricity grid consumption with further increase of up to 50 to 60 percent of our power consumption to be in place at a later date. As the School’s energy consumption is closely aligned with daytime hours, we are ideally suited for maximising solar utilisation in peak tariff periods.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In order to meet our sustainability objectives and lessen our environmental impact on the planet, Loreto College has put into place
various strategies for the reduction of plastics and waste as well as methods for recycling and composting. This includes:
n Engaging with our students in understanding our waste production and the setting of targets and strategies for waste reduction.
n Introducing specific collection and recycling systems involving the separation of waste through clearly labelled bins and then appropriate waste collection and disposal methods.
n Implementing recyclable products and packaging to replace plastic products across the College.
Sustainability Goals - Net Zero by 2030
As a future looking school, we acknowledge the need to embrace changing contexts and lead best educational practice to develop our girls. At Loreto, we have established some clear and ambitious goals towards becoming a pioneering innovator of sustainability in schools. Our
overall target is to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
The backdrop for our current students as they embark on their careers and future life will include: emerging technologies to facilitate decarbonisation, greener consumer habits, urgent threats to biodiversity, increasing
prevalence of zoonotic diseases from urbanisation. Our role at Loreto is to prepare our girls for this future.
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Energy Generation and Consumption
Working towards:
• 60% of energy requirement generated on site
• Full conversion to LED lighting
• Legacy air conditioning replacement
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Waste and Plastics Reduction
Working towards:
• Plastic-free campus
• 50% reduction in waste to landfill
• Paperless administrative processes
As part of the goal of net zero emissions by 2030 we will focus on three key areas, each with a set of measurable targets:
Since we embarked on our major sustainability initiatives in early 2020, we have already achieved some significant accomplishments:
n Stage 1 of our solar implementation, 182kwp system was commissioned in August 2021, generating up to 30% of the energy requirements of the College. We now have live data from each inverter station in the Senior, Junior and Boarding Schools and will be sharing this with the students to better understand the impact of our energy generation and consumption.
n The initiative to sort and divert waste started with the purchase of 200 new source segregation bins in February 2020. In year one, we successfully increased diversion from landfill by 105%. The education of students in this area is ongoing, with the student Environment Groups in both the Senior and Junior Schools assisting with the messaging to students regarding the correct segregation of rubbish.
n Early in 2020 we completed urgent restoration of the banks along First Creek to
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Environment Improvement
• Planting of 200 trees
• Ongoing restorations to First Creek
• Heritage gardens redevelopment
• Implementation and maintenance of an Indigenous seed bank
prevent further erosion. in 2022, as part of the Ecology Project, we carried out a major tree planting initiative planting 200 trees along the banks. This forms part of a global Loreto wide Ecology Project to mark the IBVM Bicentenary Celebration of Teresa Ball. In 2024, students added another 50 new plants to the Indigenous creek banks and garden beds at The Patch. Students also planted 18 special ‘Mary Ward’ roses (recently sent to all Loreto schools) creating a new focal point in the Sunken Garden area.
As we continue our journey towards environmental sustainability, the girls will play an integral role in the achievement of our objectives. With Environmental Science now introduced as a mandatory subject in Year 10 and new environmental leadership opportunities available in the Junior and Senior Schools, sustainability will become part of the conversation across all aspects of College life.
Ultimately, we aim to equip the girls with the tools to take a lead on these issues in the society of the future.
Community
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)
We recognise that working parents need support; thus, partnering with YMCA our OSHC program provides students with supervised homework support as well as recreation and play activities. In addition, other holiday programs, such as Code Camp and the YMCA vacation care provide students from Loreto as well as surrounding schools an opportunity to develop new skills in an area of interest.
Loreto Parents & Friends (P&F)
When you enrol your daughter at Loreto College Marryatville, you become part of a community that is generous, vibrant, and inclusive. Our families are active in connecting, celebrating and supporting what it means to be part of the Loreto family. The College’s Parents and Friends group plays an important role in welcoming new families to the Loreto community, organising community events such as Contemporary springART and Autumn Fair, as well as actively supporting the College through fundraising. Parent groups also participate in activities inside and outside the classroom, building a community spirit of support and connection across our school.
Loreto Old Scholars Association (LOSA)
LOSA is run by a vibrant and passionate group of Loreto women. The Association plays an important role in ensuring generations of Loretians stay connected with each other and Loreto College Marryatville. In doing so, the Association holds regular activities and events and is involved in fundraising and social justice initiatives. LOSA also provides the College with the opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary successes of our former students.
Old Scholar Success
Loreto Marryatville scholars are part of a global network of 1.5 million Loreto Old Scholars, The skills and knowledge developed at Loreto Marryatville has seen our Old Scholars reach pinnacles in fields including law, medicine, science, industrial relations, business, politics, and fine arts. More recently, two of our Loreto Old Scholars were named Rhodes Scholars, and both are contributing significantly in the field of Medicine. We are also proud to have one of our Old Scholars, and first in South Australia, to win the prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship.
You are invited to personally experience Loreto College Marryatville by attending a tour or to learn more by contacting our Admissions Office.
Phone: 08 8334 4200
Email: admissions@loreto.sa.edu.au. For more on Loreto Marryatville College see www.loreto.sa.edu.au
