Classroom Focus
Great Planning is the key
At the conclusion of each term our teachers are involved in a reflection and planning day. They discuss many aspects of the current term, identify successes and positive outcomes and also make recommendations and plans to address any areas identified for improvement.
Our school has spent considerable time and effort to develop our planning document proformas and to ensure agreed non negotiables and common elements are observable in all planners. This ensures consistency right across the school. Visitors to classrooms will observe similar teaching strategies and approaches in each classroom - consistency is so important. An analogy we use is that if there were triplets attending the school and they were in different classes we want each of those students to have the same opportunities and experiences.
Curriculum design is so important - students need to be stimulated and challenged. Planning engaging and interesting learning tasks is the key learning goals and curriculum focus using the Victorian curriculum.
Our term planner documents outline each week of the term. They include the major focus for English , Maths and our Inquiry focus.
Staff utilise current student assessment data to inform the establishment of our teaching groups for each key learning area.
At the conclusion of each term our teachers are involved in a reflection and planning day. They discuss many aspects of the current term, identify successes and positive outcomes and also make recommendations and plans to address any areas identified for improvement.
Our school has spent considerable time and effort to develop our planning document proformas and to ensure agreed non negotiables and common elements are observable in all planners. This ensures consistency right across the school. Visitors to classrooms will observe similar teaching strategies and approaches in each classroom - consistency is so important. An analogy we use is that if there were triplets attending the school and they were in different classes we want each of those students to have the same opportunities and experiences.
Curriculum design is so important - students need to be stimulated and challenged. Planning engaging and interesting learning tasks is the key learning goals and curriculum focus using the Victorian curriculum.
Our term planner documents outline each week of the term. They include the major focus for English , Maths and our Inquiry focus.
Staff utilise current student assessment data to inform the establishment of our teaching groups for each key learning area.