School Education introduces Catholic Schools in Cairns, for all your education and learning needs.
When selecting a Catholic school for your child, there are 29 schools and colleges in the Diocese of Cairns to choose from. All Catholic schools and colleges are located within two hours drive from Cairns — with the exception of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School at Thursday Island, and St Joseph's Parish School in Weipa. Schools and colleges within the Cairns Diocese include two Prep to Year 12 colleges; St Andrew's Catholic College, located at Redlynch, and MacKillop Catholic College at Mount Peter. St Augustine’s College — an all boys’ college in Cairns, St Monica’s College for girls, and Mount St Bernard College in Herberton (MSB), are just three of 20 primary schools and 7 secondary colleges in the Cairns Diocese. In addition to day schooling, St Augustine's and St Monica’s both offer boarding facilities for its male and female student body. Contact Catholic Schools for information on enrolling your child in a Catholic school today.Welcome to Catholic Schools one of the popular educators in your Cairns area. Our aim is help you in your learning journey.
We endeavour to celebrate each other's uniqueness by providing opportunity for all and to develop a culture that identifies that the journey towards excellence is often paved with trial and error, risk taking, learning from mistakes, flexibility and adaptability. We believe that encouraging students to take ownership of the learning is critical in achieving the best learning outcomes and that implicit in this concept is that students learn their own areas of strength and areas of development, through useful and explicit feedback.
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