Darling Range Sports College is Western Australia’s first specialist sport college and currently has nine high performance sport programs in AFL, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Netball, Rugby League, Soccer, Swimming and Triathlon.
Running parallel with these programs is our strong academic approach that provides students with opportunities to maximise their learning, achieve their potential and transition into meaningful post school pathways.
Our enthusiastic and passionate teachers utilise best possible classroom practice to create both safe, supportive and inclusive learning environments thus promoting a culture of high performance. Our Explicit Instructional Model, ‘The Darling Range Way’, supports our teachers with an evidence based lesson structure that promotes clear routines and habits within the lesson to support students’ academic achievement.
We are a Positive Behaviour School and our focus is on rewarding and encouraging positive behaviours and attitudes. Our Standards: Proud, Polite, Prepared, Punctual and Productive outline the expectations of all students, staff, parents and community members and acts as our foundation to success.
At Darling Range Sports College we have a strong commitment to offer meaningful pathways for all students towards their successful future. The opening of our new multi-million dollar Technology and STEM facilities, which provides us with a state of the art commercial kitchen, STEM labs, mechatronics lab and workshops, enhances our ability to offer pathways to VET qualifications. Our focus on STEM skills and the new Work Capabilities will provide our students with the skills, knowledge and real world experiences to become highly competent young adults in the ever changing and competitive world they face. Now with the likelihood of a new Performing Arts Centre and an anticipated overhaul of the Arts facilities, we will also be able to offer strong pathways through the performing and visual arts.
The College Business Plan 2021-2024 provides strategic direction for improvement and aligns with the Building on Strength – Future directions for the WA public school system, Every Student, Every Classroom, Every day – Strategic directions 2020-2024 and annual ‘Focus’ documentation for schools. The College acknowledges the need to be dynamic and responsive to the challenges of modern education and the needs of the community.
Rob Lawson
Principal