Teaching and Learning

NAPLAN🎉

Congratulations to all our students who completed NAPLAN over the past two weeks. Wwas particularly impressed by the resilience and focus students showed throughout the assessments!

Whilst NAPLAN offers a useful point-in-time snapshot of student achievement; when combined with a range of other data and classroom observations, it enables teachers to reflect on their practice and make targeted adjustments to strengthen student learning outcomes.

Once results are received later in the year, families will be provided with a report outlining their child’s performance and progress, along with information to help support learning at home.

Individual Learning Plans (ILP)

Over the past couple of weeks, you will have received your child’s Individual Learning Plan (ILP) from their classroom teacher. We encourage you to read the ILP alongside your child, paying special attention to the “How Families Can Support” section, which offers guidance on supporting your child to achieve their goals - especially as we move into the Term 1 holiday period.

Reading over the holidays

Well done to all our students who are consistently reading at home! We look forward to celebrating your 'Nights of Reading' at upcoming assemblies in Term 2!

It’s important for students to keep up their reading over the holiday break to avoid the “holiday slide,” where skills can dip without regular practice.Even just a few minutes of reading each day, whether independently or being read to, helps maintain and build reading skills, vocabulary, and confidence, keeping your child’s learning on track. 

Review of our Teaching & Learning Instructional Model

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible learning for our students, and in line with the introduction of the new Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0, this term and next we are reviewing and refining how teaching happens across our school. To support this work, Teachers are engaging in whole-school, evidence-based professional learning around the Elements of Teaching and looking at how we currently teaching Literacy, Numeracy, and Inquiry in our classrooms. Next term, this will also extend to look at specialist classes, and a how we engage with and utilise positive classroom management strategies across the school to support student learning.

When there is consistent, high-quality teaching across all classrooms, it helps students know what to expect, feel supported, and stay engaged in their learning and achieve stronger outcomes.