English
and Mathematics.
We believe it is important to immerse our
children in oral, visual and written language
so children master the basics of listening,
communicating ideas and to read and write
for a wide range of purposes.
In the senior school, children extend their
reading and writing skills and apply their
literacy skills to Inquiry Learning tasks,
refining and developing these so that they
are independent and confident learners by
the time they leave us.
Literacy contributes significantly to the
teaching of Numeracy in our school. Our
children develop their understanding of
number, pattern, shape and space by talking
about these and teachers encourage children
to read and interpret problems in order
to identify the mathematics involved. Teacher’s
then show children how to approach these
problems in different ways and how to apply
their basic knowledge of number to a range
of increasingly complex mathematical problems,
using strategies developed under the National
Numeracy Project
