How is the literacy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Literacy skills are explicit in the Australian Curriculum: English. However, literacy is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas. Literacy enables students to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, …
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Lansdowne Crescent Primary School
Lansdowne Crescent Primary is a city school in Hobart. At the time of filming the school had a population of 400 students from Foundation to Year 6. The school has been implementing the Australian Curriculum since 2011 and has embedded the English, mathematics, …
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Alice Springs School of the Air
The Alice Springs School of the Air (ASSOA) is based in Alice Springs and broadcasts to children in isolated communities through a 1.3 million square km 'classroom', throughout Northern Territory and parts of South Australia and Western Australia. At …
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St John’s Lutheran Primary School
St John's Lutheran Primary School is located in the coastal town of Bundaberg and has been operating for over 30 years. At the time of filming, the school had 200 F–7students. A community kindergarten is also located on site. The school began the curriculum …
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What is the focus of the literacy progression?
Literacy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the literacy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Literacy …
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Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School
Our Lady of Mercy Deloraine School is in rural Tasmania and at the time of filming had 135 students, with this number made up of multi-age classes from Foundation to Year 6, and 13 teaching staff. The focus of this school is the provision of education …
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Report Findings: Qualitative Data
Participating schools were asked to report against the project aims as part of their evaluation. This section provides a summary of their responses and outlines additional benefits of the project.
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Outdoor learning: Health and Physical Education
Outdoor learning provides opportunities to learn about interacting with others, connecting to the environment, teamwork and leadership. The outdoors provides a valid and important environment for developing movement competence, promoting a sense of wellbeing, …
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Creating texts description
The Creating texts sub-element describes how students become increasingly proficient at creating texts for an increasing range of purposes. Students’ writing moves from representing basic concepts and simple ideas to conveying abstract concepts and complex …
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Literacy learning area advice
The learning area advice resources can assist teachers in providing an illustration of how the progressions may be used in learning areas, other than Mathematics and English, to support students’ literacy and numeracy development. They provide authentic …
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Baynton West Primary School
Baynton West Primary School is an independent public school in Karratha, Western Australia. At the time of filming the school had close to 600 students in Foundation – Year 7, and 50 staff members. The school strives to provide a rigorous education for …
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Respect matters: Health and Physical Education
Through the Health and Physical Education curriculum, students develop the ability to access, evaluate and synthesise information and take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, wellbeing, and safety. They develop …
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“We keep evolving, we have a go at it”
Sanderson Middle School is a government school in Darwin. It is located on the traditional lands of the Larrakia People and has an enrolment of 375 students, of whom 35% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. This school story reveals how teachers …
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Keller Road Primary School
Keller Road Primary School is a small school set in beautiful grounds 17km north of Adelaide. The school caters for students from Foundation to Year 7 (F – 7) and is located on the traditional lands of the Kaurna Peoples. The current enrolment is 210 …
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Leigh Creek Area School
Leigh Creek is situated 560kms north of Adelaide in the hot, arid zone of South Australia’s northern Flinders Ranges. Leigh Creek Area School caters to students from Foundation to Year 12 (F – 12) and is located on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha …
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St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring (MDWg) Language and Culture Centre Kununurra is situated 3,214 km from Perth in far northern Western Australia, at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley. …
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Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Geography
The Australian Curriculum: Geography has an important role in supporting young people to become responsible and informed consumers. Geography supports the development of the following dimensions of consumer and financial literacy. Approximate proportion …
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How can the benefits of the progressions be maximised?
Whole school In a school, the benefits of the progressions are maximised where there is a whole-school, systematic approach to literacy and numeracy development that ensures: opportunities for professional dialogue and collaboration to strengthen teacher …
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Gillen Primary School, Alice Springs
Gillen Primary School is situated in the town of Alice Springs and provides educational programs from preschool to Year 6. At the time of filming the school had 312 students of which 180 are Indigenous. Gillen has been a ‘National Accelerated Literacy …
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St Stephen's School, Carramar
At the time of filming St Stephen’s Carramar had 490 students F–6. The school’s emphasis is on developing students, with the curriculum as the platform and context. Both teachers and students are encouraged to take risks in the learning process. Integration …
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