Curriculum News

Student-centred Inquiry Approach

Our new Inquiry approach

To facilitate an engaging learning across the curriculum, Huntingdale Primary School has launched a new approach to Inquiry learning and teaching where the learning starts with students' wonderings, interests and passion. While each year level will explore a different "driving question" that guides students' learning, the key concept for each term will be consistent across the whole school - in both English and Nihongo.

The aim of our new Inquiry approach is to empower students with skills for lifelong learning: thinking, questioning, observing, synthesising, creating, reflecting...These skills are embedded in students' learning through teacher-modelling and explicit teaching, so that students can gradually guide their own learning.

What does this look like?

This term, we are all looking into the concept of NECESSITY. Across the school, we have students exploring the needs and wants of people, animals, as well as needs within communities and groups of people.

The "driving question" for Year 5/6 this term is: Is perfection a necessity? Students are investigating the requirements for a "perfect" country (in English) and a "perfect" school (in Nihongo) by looking into successful policies and rules across the globe. The content and skills addressed in the Victorian Curriculum are used to drive student learning in a meaningful context, equipping students with knowledge and language that are necessary for their learning.

See below for some high-quality thinking and learning in the Year 5/6s!

Nozomi Koyama (Engagement Team)