Literacy is the key to all learning. We provide teaching and learning opportunities that will motivate and engage students and develop the skills necessary for success at school and lead them to access the opportunities available to them in our world.
Our students learn to appreciate, enjoy, and use language and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, form and express ideas, to inform, persuade, and entertain.
Our Literacy program incorporates the development of listening and speaking, reading, and writing skills within a daily two-hour literacy workshop focussing on whole class and small group instruction with opportunities for students to reflect and share their learning. We follow a science of reading approach where we explicitly teach phonics and skills all within a language and text-rich environment.
To amplify our children’s learning and give meaning and opportunity to implement these skills they are linked with the inquiry topic being investigated, to provide a purpose as well as real-life connections. A key feature of the program is the ongoing identification, planning, and monitoring of students’ learning to ensure students’ individual needs are being met.
Our Reading Intervention Program provides additional support to students in their second year of schooling and is an integral part of the early literacy program.
