Tutorial Groups

Staughton College runs Tutorial Groups every day before recess. Once a week the focus of these sessions is on School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support. In these sessions, students explore areas relevant to their year levels, such as the importance of goal setting, careers and study techniques.

Another session concentrates on explicitly teaching the literacy strategies that enable students to better understand the texts they are reading. During this time, learning is differentiated based on the reading levels of the students in the tutorial group. We endeavour to provide skills instruction to those students who are not where we would expect them to be for their year level, and to adequately extend those students who are at or above where they should be.

The remaining three sessions in the week are made up of independent reading, during which time students are able to enjoy Just Right Texts. It is during these classes that teachers will conference and help set reading goals with the students, which are then shared with their English teachers.

At Staughton College we strongly believe that literacy is the gateway to learning success, and therefore it is a whole school priority. All teachers are trained to deliver this curriculum and to take responsibility for the literacy progress of their pupils.

This was evident in the OnDemand results, which at the end of 2015 showed that students were making more than a year’s worth of growth in six months of learning.

Sarah-Jane Woodward

Performance and Development Team Leader