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Curriculum
Russley School takes pride in preparing our students to be life long learners, to ensure success at high school and for learning beyond formal education.
We achieve the high standard of our mission statement of 'promoting personal best' by our strong curriculum delivery.
We have -
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an emphasis on the foundation skills of numeracy and literacy
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a values programme that has been developed with consultation with our community
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a focus on the key competencies that ensure success (thinking, managing self, language, symbols and text, participating and contributing and relating to others)
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an inquiry learning model to deliver quality learning to all curriculum areas
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reporting on each child's curriculum progress to parents every term
2011 Curriculum Plan
Click here to view a copy of the Curriculum Plan.
Inquiry Learning
Inquiry learning is a teaching and learning approach used to deliver the curriculum, by integrating units of work around big ideas or broad bands of knowledge.
It is proven to be a highly effective approach in promoting student learning as it:
- Provides students with greater control over their learning, while being driven from their interests or questions
- Allows collaborative situations for students to construct their learning together.
- Uses meaningful learning contexts, which have a real purpose or outcome for the students
- Focuses on developing information literacy or research skills
- Expands both students' knowledge and their understanding of the process involved in taking action, and
- Naturally integrates numerous ICT tools and processes into learning activities.
As part of our school wide professional development over the next few years we are going to be implementing the inquiry approach into our classroom practices.
It is important to note that is an ongoing process and involves a considerable shift in the way we deliver our teaching and learning programmes. Inquiry learning is also deeply embedded within the development of the Russley Curriculum.