Mt Carmel School is a systemic Catholic co-educational school catering for students from Kindergarten to Year 10. Our school motto "Age Quod Agis - do well what you do" invites all members of our school and parish community to reach their full potential by giving their personal best. Mt Carmel School has been providing Catholic education in the Yass Valley for over 160 years. At Mt Carmel, we strive to build a safe and caring family-oriented community where our students develop to the best of their ability: academically, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually. To achieve this, we must provide for each child and their family, a community that clearly identifies a common set of values guiding everything we do. Mt Carmel School was founded by the Sisters of Mercy and their example, of showing and sharing kindness, proudly continues in an environment where Christ's teachings are learned and lived. The school’s strong Catholic values are embodied in the Mission Statement: 'to encourage each individual to achieve her or his personal best in a meeting place where Christ's teachings are learned and lived’. Mt Carmel has a strong focus on learning and academic achievement and teachers are embedding the NSW Quality Teaching Framework within their classroom practice as well as developing higher order thinking skills in our students. We have initiated strategies to support teaching and learning with a strong focus on literacy and numeracy. Strategies to improve the numeracy results include implementing numeracy blocks, tracking numeracy performance across all stages and providing students with rich and engaging contextualised learning strategies as well as providing staff with ongoing professional development opportunities. Strategies to improve literacy results include implementing First Steps Writing which targeted writing and spelling in the primary classes along with Tactical Teaching of Reading in secondary classes. As well it is important for Mt Carmel to strengthen the partnership between the school..