John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School
John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School
JSRACS is a dual campus dynamic co-educational Anglican School located in Beechboro and Mirrabooka, approximately 10km from the Perth CBD. We offer a broad, high-quality education to students from diverse backgrounds. We embrace the educational challenges and opportunities of the future, as each student is encouraged to explore their spiritual, intellectual, social, physical and creative capacities.
Our Aspiration
Our aspiration is for JSRACS students to be architects of their lives; looking beyond the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary, in making a difference to the world in which they live. In encouraging our students to achieve their potential, we place a major emphasis on the creation of a dynamic teaching and learning environment, both within and outside the classroom.
Campus Facilities
The facilities and grounds of both the Beechboro and Mirrabooka campuses are of an exceptionally high standard. The gardens and buildings are well maintained and attractive and the school provides a sophisticated technological environment.
The Beechboro Campus caters for students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 6; it provides well-equipped classrooms, a gymnasium, a specialist music suite, a large science room, an art room, two playing fields and several hard courts.
The Mirrabooka Campus caters for students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 in a carefully structured learning environment. The Primary has its own science and art facilities an oval, playgrounds, and a gymnasium. Many of the classrooms have been recently built and feature large break-out spaces where students can gather to work creatively and energetically! We are also in the process of building an Early Learning Centre and naturescape playground along with specialist suites to cater for our external in internal support including speech therapists, Autism Australia, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists.
The Middle Years of Schooling boasts a 12 classroom Years 7 and 8 Learning Community. The Senior Learning Centre is a two-storey purpose-built facility with 12 classrooms for senior secondary students. In addition we are in the process of developing a state of the art Year 9 and 10 building that will complement the existing facilities and create a new specialist learning space.
These buildings cater specifically to the needs of young adolescents and complement the facilities of the whole secondary school, including a Performing Arts Centre with a 200 seat theatre, dance studio and specialist music classrooms; a gymnasium with two indoor courts, a weight centre and climbing wall; four hard courts and two ovals; a media centre, commercial kitchens in the Food and Technology Centre; an Industrial Arts Centre equipped with CAD computers; and a bright and spacious two-storey library.
Our Specialist Programs
The pursuit of personal excellence is set as a goal for all students and particularly participants in the school’s specialist programs.
Our Specialist Programs pay specific attention to the needs and interests of all students at JSRACS. These programs aim to diversify the learning at JSRACS as well as further enhance the strong community we have at our School.
The current specialist programs on offer at JSRACS include: Basketball, Gifted and Talented, Performing Arts and Cadets.
Community
We are proud to have a strong, diverse community at JSRACS with a close-knit group of students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12.
Our Senior students will often take opportunities to spend time in Primary School and work with our Primary students. Our Senior students constantly lead with positive examples and are fantastic role models for our Primary students to follow in their footsteps.
With an Anglicare Ambassadors and Service Learning program, there is no end to the opportunities for our students to develop the skills to be the changemakers of the future.
Pathways
JSRACS understands that not everyone is suited to the 'traditional' senior school pathway and that in order for our students to achieve success we need to provide a learning pathway to suit their learning needs and future aspirations.
We have six senior school pathways for our students to explore including;
ATAR
General Pathway
Careerlink Pathway
Hospitality Pathway
Trade Preparation Pathway and
Curtin UniReady Pathway
Through these pathways, we see students achieve their personal best through academic excellence, achieving a Certificate II, III or IV, gaining apprenticeships and valuable work and life experiences, leaving JSRACS with a strong focus for their future careers and further educaton.