Literacy and Numeracy

NAPLAN 2022

Congratulations to our Year 3 and 5 students that completed NAPLAN earlier this year.  As a staff, we have commenced the process of unpacking and analysing data sets.  We are very proud of all our students wonderful achievements across all areas!

At this stage, State and National data are not yet available.  We will provide more information to our community once we receive this data.  Given that NAPLAN was not completed in 2020, we do not have any growth data this year.

Watch this space for further information.

Indigenous Literacy Day - 

St James Great Book Swap

An enormous thank you to all of our families that supported our Great Book Swap on 7th September.  On this day, we were able to watch a 'live-streamed' event from the Sydney Opera House hosted by Jessica Mauboy.  Our students were introduced to Indigenous languages and culture.

We raised $220 for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation!  Thank you!

Mrs Cathy Dimitrakopoulos

Literacy/Learning and Teaching Leader

cathy.dimitrakopoulos@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

Mathematics - Multiple Solutions and Multiple Strategies 

At St James we believe in teaching students multiple strategies to solve problems and letting students choose the best strategy that works for them. We love it when students can take ownership over a certain way to solve a problem and find success. They really understand why it works and can then apply it to a variety of other problems.

Skilled mathematical thinkers have a variety of problem-solving strategies in their toolbox and can access them quickly and efficiently.  They understand that the same strategy doesn’t work for all problems and are able to apply the best, most effective strategy for each problem they solve, almost effortlessly or without even thinking about it.

We want all of our students to become skilled mathematical thinkers.

For example a question such as, 10 x  ? =  ? ? allows students to think about questions such as:

What is one possible answer?

How many different solutions are possible? 

Which equations do not work?

Asking for multiple solutions can be very powerful. I wonder if you can try this at home.

 Josh Crowe

                                                                   Mathematics Leader

                                             joshua.crowe@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au