Curriculum
Off to a Great Start
Every class begins the year with a two-week program that sets a positive learning culture and consistent expectations across the school. Off to a Great Start builds the shared values, attitudes, skills and community goals that prepare a class for the year, and every activity in those two weeks is designed around that. Links between home and school are part of it from the beginning, and are revisited through the year.
Teaching and learning
All teachers use the Australian Curriculum to plan, teach, assess and report in:
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Geography, History, Civics and Citizenship in Years 3–6, Economics and Business in Years 5–6
- The Arts: Drama, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Media Arts
- Technologies: Digital Technologies, Design and Technologies
- Health and Physical Education
- Languages: Auslan
We have specialist teachers in PE and gymnastics, Science, Performing Arts and Auslan.
Teachers use the South Australian Teaching for Effective Learning framework (TfEL), so what happens in a classroom follows the most recent evidence about how children actually learn.
Learning support
Our SSOs — school services officers — work one to one with students who have an identified learning disability, and run our literacy and numeracy intervention programs.
We have a teacher for students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EALD), and an Aboriginal Education teacher supporting our Aboriginal students. A range of programs support individual and group wellbeing alongside this.
Beyond the classroom
Performing Arts
Students can join the Festival of Music choir, a school-based music education program. The choir performs at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, usually in September.
Sport
We have netball and soccer teams playing in out-of-school-hours competitions, SAPSASA and knockout events, and a gymnastics team that competes each year in the Gymnastics SA Schools Challenge. The focus across all of it is enjoyment, participation, teamwork, and building confidence.
More about our specialist sport program
Children's University
Run by the University of Adelaide, Children's University offers voluntary educational experiences out of school hours for children aged 7 to 14. Children choose their own activities and collect stamps in a Passport to Learning as they go, and are recognised at formal ceremonies in places like Bonython Hall — caps, gowns and all.
There is a registration fee, payable to Children's University. Contact the school for the coordinator's details.
