Big Picture

JJ Cahill Memorial High School is joining with Big Picture Learning Australia to bring their innovative passion-based learning design to young people within a mainstream setting.

Research tells us that we learn best when we are personally motivated. Where there is passion for what we are doing, deep knowledge evolves naturally.

In Big Picture, students learn through their personal interests and design their own learning around a unique set of passions, needs, preferences and goals.

Students are supported to learn outside school on regular internships with expert mentors in the community to test out their interests, grow their network of contacts and to plan their future pathway to employment, training or further study.

Big Picture will be available for JJ Cahill Memorial High School students in Year 9 and 10 in 2027.

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What is Big Picture?

In Big Picture, students learn through their personal interests and design their own learning around a unique set of passions, needs, preferences and goals.

  • Students learn in and out of school
  • A personalised design
  • Choice and decision-making opportunities
  • Learning through interests
  • Students learn as part of an advisory - a ‘learning community’, where every student feels known, supported and respected
  • An advisor teacher guides and leads the students in the advisory
  • The International Big Picture Learning Credential (IBPLC) offers a rigorous non-ATAR pathway from secondary to tertiary study that is currently accepted by 18 universities around Australia

The Learning Plan

The Learning Plan describes the learning that will take place each term.

Students are assessed through the six Big Picture learning goals:

  1. Knowing how to learn
  2. Empirical reasoning
  3. Social reasoning
  4. Quantitative reasoning
  5. Communication
  6. Personal qualities

This learning is presented at the end of each term in the form of an Exhibition

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Find out more..

More information about Big Picture is available via the Big Picture Learning Australia Website, or contact us for more about Big Picture at JJ Cahill Memorial High School.

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