A new Curriculum document was developed at the end of 2004, titled Victorian Essential Learning Standards, VELS. This document is based on the CSF and will describe what is essential for all students to achieve from Prep to Year 10 in Victorian schools.
The new document has three key stands of learning including;
Physical, Personal and Social Learning (Health and Physical Education, Interpersonal Development, Personal Learning and Civics and Citizenship),
Discipline-based Learning (The Arts, English and English as Another Language, The Humanities, Mathematics and Science),
and Interdisciplinary Learning (Communication, Design, Creativity and Technology and Thinking).
Our curriculum is also underpinned by a set of educational principles; Learning for all, Pursuit of Excellence, Engagement and Effort, Respect for Evidence and Openness of Mind. The same levels will apply as in the CSF levels, Levels 1-6 for Prep to Year 10.
To find out more visit:
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/aboutschool/curriculum/vels.htm
We work towards developing...
A learning community where students and teachers are actively engaged in high quality learning and teaching and personal development programs which develop each person’s ongoing learning and best performance. Teachers, students, and parents take responsibility for, and work together to achieve the personal development success of all.
Through a curriculum that offers.....
-
Exemplary literacy and numeracy programs in Early Years (P-4) and Middle Years (5-6)
-
Differentiating the curriculum to provide for all students’ challenge and success by catering for diversity
-
Developing student involvement, responsibility and engagement in learning
-
Effective personal development for all students
-
Specialist programs in physical education, visual arts, music, literacy support and Italian
The reporting system at our school involves:
1. A parent-teacher conference at the beginning of the school year for all prep children. A parent–teacher conversation (’getting to know you’) for Years 1-6 children early in the year.
2. A written report and a three way child-parent-teacher conference in June.
3. A written report in December.
Teacher parent conversations happen whenever require at parent or teacher invitation
To find out more visit:
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/aboutschool/studentreports.htm