Learning and Teaching

Introducing Our New Learning Powers

Building Learning Powers in students helps them to be more confident of their own learning ability and become better learners in school and beyond. Research has shown that developing students’ learning powers or behaviours:

✅  Raises achievement

✅  Improves behaviour

✅  Increases motivation

✅  Creates supple learning minds

✅  Increases enjoyment in learning

✅  Establishes habits of lifelong learning

✅  Enhances creativity

At St Mary’s, our students and staff have been engaged in an ongoing inquiry into the dispositions that help us to be successful lifelong learners. This has involved exploring research, system documents and curriculum, then experimenting with different ways to support students to build their dispositions for learning. As a result of our inquiry, the wonderful Sue Jackson, former Deputy of Learning, designed our new St Mary’s Learning Powers. These have been linked to local wildlife to help students connect to, and engage with, the learning powers. Over the next few weeks, we will introduce you to each power and explain how you can help to build these at home. 

This Week's Learning Power

This week our Focus Learning Power is Collaborative Learner. This learning power supports students to understand that learning can be social and when we are open to working with others we can think about things in new ways. We have used our research and the Victorian Curriculum to design an F-2 and a Yr 3-6 poster to support students to understand how they can use the power of collaboration to support their learning.

               F-2 Collaborative Learner Poster                 Yr 3-6 Collaborative Learner Poster

Talk to your child at home and discuss what collaboration means to you.

When do you collaborate with others? 

When have you worked in a group towards a shared goal? 

Has there been a time when working with others has helped you to improve in some way?

Home Learning Page!

Please click on the image  below to visit your child’s Home Leaning Page to stay up to date with their learning.