The Living Academy

change your mind

Year 9 to Year 13

Located in Southern Cross University, Living Academy is NESA registered and accredited.

A purposefully designed high school experience.

THE FIRST SCHOOL ON THE NORTH COAST

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate ® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation offering the highly respected Diploma programme of international education to develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills needed to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalising world.

If you have found after completing Year 11 that the HSC is not your pathway, and you desire a global option - to access universities around the world - with a rich core of philosophy and community service , you could join us for IB One (the first year of the IB Diploma Program).

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Living Academy is a small purposefully designed school to engage adolescents in learning for life.

Our three cultural garden beds are Care, Curriculum, Citizenship.

Academic

The first IB Diploma school on the North Coast of NSW.

HSC offering via Distance Education.

Toddle Learning Portal

Living School is partnered with the Toddle online Learning Management System

Entrepreneurship

community, service and sustainability

Trades and Training

Vocational and apprenticeship pathways

Theory of Understanding

Teaching about learning

Creative and Expressive

full school music productions, showcase concerts, design technology, visual art, music and performance, photography

Expeditions and Challenge

Stage 5 have expeditions to learn in context, adventure away from home, and feel personal challenge as a rite of passage.

Years 9 & 10

EXPEDITIONS, SEEDING FOR IB, PATHWAYS TO TRADES.

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challenge, engagement, understanding

Years 11/12 (AND 13!)

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATTE - DIPLOMA PROGRAM

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respect, curiosity, relationships

EMBEDDED IN A UNIVERSITY

CAMPUS IN SCU

Our new Living Academy campus lies in the heart of Southern Cross University and with the most beautiful outlook! We launch our International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in this incredible facility!!

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"There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life."

Kurt Hahn

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning."

John Dewey

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced. If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it."

Richard Attenborough