Learning & Teaching
Nessy
Nessy has been a wonderful literacy resource for our students and school over the past couple of years, enabling students to engage in individualised reading and spelling tasks at school and home, to practise and consolidate their learning.
What is Nessy?
Nessy is an award winning, global educational company that specialises in developing early literacy skills, and has recently developed programs to support numeracy skills too. Click on the links below if you wish to know more.
This year, in recognition of our school's ongoing commitment to the Science of Reading, we have been fortunate to receive another free whole school subscription to Nessy. However, we will now have access to not one, but three Nessy programs - Hairy Reading, Reading & Spelling and Number Sense.
Hairy Reading supports the development of phonological skills (identifying sounds, syllables, blending and segmenting, etc), sound/letter relationships (phonics) and contains a range of decodable books to further develop a solid literacy foundation. This program will be available for our Year P/1 students, and some of our Year 2 students.
Nessy Reading and Spelling contains 100 structured literacy lessons to develop an individualised reading and spelling program for each student. Nessy is not just for learners with dyslexia. All students benefit from structured literacy based upon the Science of Reading. The program begins with systematic synthetic phonics which has been proven to be the best way to instruct early readers. As literacy skills develop, students advance to instruction in spelling, morphology, vocabulary and comprehension. All STM students will have access to this program.
Number Sense develops numeracy skills in a structured and systematic way to build a solid numeracy foundation for learners. The program provides lessons in number knowledge, patterns, strategies and problem solving. Number Sense is designed for learners aged 4-8 years. This program will be available to all STM students as some parts of the program are still under development, and may be of benefit to some of our students in the middle to upper year levels.
Students are able to use these resources under the school's ICT Acceptable Use Agreement, so if you are yet to sign this consent form, please do as soon as possible. Students receive a personalised login and these will be sent home from the beginning of week 4.
If you wish to know more, or want to discuss these programs further please email or call 9754 4444.
In partnership
Danielle
Deputy Principal
Learning & Teaching Leader