Literacy  

Here at St. John’s Regional College we are motivated by the social justice principles of participation, equity and access so that every child is enabled through literate practices to realise diverse life goals. Our ideal outcome is for all children to develop deep understanding of the linguistic meaning making systems necessary for a just community and world. We work in the context of collective responsibility for students’ literacy learning, with Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) sharing knowledge and understandings about what improves literacy learning, what students’ literacy learning needs are and how, and by whose agency, literacy goals will be achieved. Through sustained investment in literacy leadership and teachers’ professional learning we aim to create a landscape of shared beliefs about literacy learning and teaching so that all students are able to lead literate lives. This requires sustained attention from all of us, teachers, leaders and MACS. Next week some of our teachers are participating in another professional development day with MACS, where we will develop and implement the next level of our whole-school disciplinary literacy program.