Our Curriculum...
Our National Curriculum is world renowned. Its dynamic point of difference is that it has five broad Key Competencies that underpin all curriculum area and social development dynamics for all learners (both child and adult!) These are:
- Relating to Others
- Managing Self
- Participating and Contributing
- Thinking
- Using Language Symbols and Text
The enrichment and context that our broad based national curriculum contains with content from the five enriching (and essential) curriculum areas (Science, Technology, Social Sciences, The Arts and Health and Physical Education) is used to provide the context (the hook) to learn to read, write and do maths!
To be literate is to have the ability to understand, respond to and use language that is needed and valued in the world we live in. This means having empathy for others around us, being able to listen to and speak with them and then beyond that, when we are cognitively ready, being able to read and write.
Everyone needs to learn mathematics. Reasons for this include it being a basic necessity in many aspects of our day-to-day life and essential in most areas of employment. An understanding of mathematics will help your child develop logical approaches to procedures and arguments.
- Relating to Others
- Managing Self
- Participating and Contributing
- Thinking
- Using Language Symbols and Text
The enrichment and context that our broad based national curriculum contains with content from the five enriching (and essential) curriculum areas (Science, Technology, Social Sciences, The Arts and Health and Physical Education) is used to provide the context (the hook) to learn to read, write and do maths!
To be literate is to have the ability to understand, respond to and use language that is needed and valued in the world we live in. This means having empathy for others around us, being able to listen to and speak with them and then beyond that, when we are cognitively ready, being able to read and write.
Everyone needs to learn mathematics. Reasons for this include it being a basic necessity in many aspects of our day-to-day life and essential in most areas of employment. An understanding of mathematics will help your child develop logical approaches to procedures and arguments.
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Did you know?
Collaborative learning (where students work in groups with each other) leads to better outcomes for the whole cohort than individualistic or competitive learning. When we compete against each other, we don't share as freely, which means we don't teach or learn from each other as much. Students who engage in cooperative learning are more successful across a wide range of problem-solving categories. Link: Qin, Johnson & Johnson (1995) Cooperative versus competitive efforts and problem solving |