English

The English curriculum aims to ensure that students:

• Learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken and written texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose;
• Appreciate, enjoy and use the English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue;
• Understand how Standard Australian English works in its spoken and written forms and in combination with non-linguistic forms of communication to create meaning; and
• Develop interest and skills in inquiring into the aesthetic aspects of texts, and develop an informed appreciation of literature.

We endeavour to do this through:

• The explicit teaching of reading, writing and speaking and listening skills
• The use of formal and informal assessment
• The analysis of student data
• A comprehensive and targeted F-2 oral language focus 
• The use of intervention where necessary

Programs that complement our teaching of English include;

• Little Learners Love Literacy
• Levelled Literacy Intervention (LLI)
• Spelling Mastery