An Independent Public School

As a teaching team, we know that all children should be provided with the opportunity to develop and achieve in a safe and welcoming environment. We use a range of positive behaviour techniques to assist your child in feeling valued and happy at school. In our classrooms, students are future leaders, managers, organisers, employees, readers, writers, problem solvers, mathematicians and creators.

 

Literacy

We focus on developing the required knowledge, skills and attitudes for our students to read and write. We utilise explicit-direct instruction teaching methods to develop automaticity of knowledge so that working memory is freed up for new learning. We use state of the art evidence-based programmes such as Inititalit and Heggerty to build student knowledge of sounds and for segmenting and blending for students to write and read words. Students have access to a range of decodable texts and other books to develop their ability to read both in and outside of the classroom. We use evidence-based programmes to develop students’ sentence structure, use of punctuation and their understanding of a range of text types. We build background knowledge though topic reading and themes.

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Numeracy

In Numeracy, we implement the Top 10 program which focuses on hands-on learning with the use of a range of manipulatives. Top 10 covers the main operations in mathematics – place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Throughout the year, we also focus on teaching students measurement, geometry, chance and data. Students also participate in daily revision through number writing, mental maths and warm-ups. We keep up to date with the latest research into how students become proficient at mathematics though our training in courses such as Shaping Minds.

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Students also participate in specialist classes including Science, Humanities and Social Science, Physical Education, Health, Art, Digital Technologies and Indonesian.

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