Big Question 

Just a reminder…

Our Big Questions are aligned to the Victoria Curriculum, responsive to our students’ interests, and are dynamic in nature. Our talented teachers make transdisciplinary connections where possible to ensure the learning is authentic and meaningful to our students.

EPS utilise the inquiry-based learning model, along with our instruction model, to enable students to grow their critical and creative thinking skills. This teaching and learning approach allow students to develop their abilities to ask questions, design investigations, interpret evidence, form explanations and communicate findings. 

Next term there is a whole school approach to shining a spotlight on the Learner Asset of ‘Contributor’. At EPS we focus on the following 6 Learner Assets:

• Researcher
• Collaborator
• Communicators
• Thinker
• Self-Manager
• Contributor

These assets underpin the development of lifelong learners and equip our students to deal with unfamiliar situations as they arise. One of our Strategic Goals is to ‘Empower students to be active agents in their learning.’ Research shows that by assisting our students to develop the micro-skills that lead to becoming proficient with the learner assets, will assist them to become agentic learners.

Big Question

In Week 8, each year level team had a planning day. During this time, teams reflect upon what went well, and what could be improved in the following term. The Big Question planning discussion is always rich and exciting, below is an overview of Term 3: