Curriculum- Teaching and Learning

School Wide Teaching and Learning

In each edition of our school newsletter, we share with our community an insight into the curriculum being taught within our classrooms. This reflects our school's strong focus upon continuous improvement. 

Each edition covers a different area of the curriculum, and is supported by our school-wide approaches to teaching and learning. 

Berry Street Educational Model

At the commencement of 2019, our school committed to improving social-emotional learning within our students through the use of School-Wide Positive Behaviors for Learning (SWPBL), a component of which is the Berry Street Education Model. 

In Term One 2021, we have a strong focus upon building rapport and co-regulation within our classrooms. This is being actioned within our classrooms through the development of shared class expectations, which are clearly stated and reflective of both student voice, and our School Values of Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience. 

With the previous interruption of Remote Learning, we are focussing heavily on continuing to provide our students with the opportunity to have a voice in developing the expected 'norms' for our school. 

"Ready to Learn" through sensory supports

In support of assisting those students who may require 'a little extra' to keep focus, each class has been provided with a set of sensory toys to help students as they develop their "ready to learn plans". 

An important component of a co-regulated classroom is "Brain Breaks".

Building upon our students' knowledge of the brain (and it's connection to our bodies and learning) we are helping to identify the benefits and expectations of effective brain breaks. 

Brain breaks can be used to: 

- positively prime the group to be "ready to learn": helping to tune thoughts and feelings to focus upon the learning task

- de-escalate a group or individual: helping students to regulate and monitor their own emotions, utilising our school's "tap-out" Talk Move, in order to responsibly reset and refocus

- build co-regulation in the classroom: creating an environment in which empathy, awareness, and kindness for the feelings of others is explicit

What's the Curriculum focus coming up in the next edition of the newsletter?

In the next edition of our newsletter, we will be sharing information regarding our approach to Reading, Writing, and Spelling.