Curriculum & Special Programs offered across site
Learning Across All Environments
Teachers at Christie Downs Primary School plan,
programme, assess and report using the Australian Curriculum, Early
Years Framework, Teaching For Effective Learning tool and the
Respect, Reflect and Relate Framework.
In the area of literacy as your child moves
from Reception to Year 7 they will continue to develop their
knowledge, language and understandings of reading, writing, viewing
and speaking. In the area of numeracy your child will build on their
number and algebra, measurement and geometry, statistics and
probability understanding through reasoning and problem- solving.
Throughout the year teachers collect literacy
and numeracy data on each student. This data helps teachers to
inform their teaching and learning programming. It also allows for
swift identification of students who need extra support. Parents
receive a written report twice a year at the end of each semester.
At Chrsitie Downs in the maintsream school
there is a team of teachers who support targetted students in
literacy and numeracy. The team works closely with the classroom
teachers to to deliver evidence based support. The team is made up
of:
·
Early Years Reading Support Teacher
·
Aboriginal Education Teacher
·
English as an Additional Language or
Dialect Teacher
·
Primary Special Education Teacher
·
Aboriginal Junior Primary Literacy
Teacher
We are a creative and whole body place of
learning with teachers engaging with the Reggio Emilia principles
and looking at engagement by using the Creative Body Based Learning
drama approaches. These two approaches together support our students
to feel competent and capable and that they have a voice in their
learning.
Specialised Programs
At Christie Downs teaching and learning are at
the centre of all we do and we are constantly reflecting on current
programs and seeing new ways to engage and educate all of our
students. As a result we offer a range of specialist programs
including:
·
Support A Talker Program for children
who need to develop their language skills in the Junior Primary.
·
Levelled Literacy Intervention for
children who need extra support around their reading and writing
development.
·
Specialist PE and Health Teacher
·
Specialist STEM Teacher
·
Specialist Spanish Teacher
·
An Upper Primary carpentry education
program
·
Year 7 enterprise education program
·
Year 7 aspirational program working
with Flinders University
·
A transition program aimed at new
students who will transition into reception
·
Drum Beat for Primary students to
develop strategies for self-regulation
·
Weekly Discovery lessons in the
Junior Primary to engage their interest in Humanities
