Our literacy program focuses on supporting students to develop a strong understanding of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As the three modes of the English Victorian Curriculum, these are not only taught in Literacy lessons but are also immersed across all learning experiences. A whole school instructional model identifies key lesson features and evidence-based teaching practices that our teachers employ to support both student learning growth and outcomes.

In the Early Years, our school focuses on providing students with authentic experiences that support them to learn new ways to apply literacy skills whilst developing their understanding of language and vocabulary. Students are explicitly taught the relationship between the sounds (phonemes) of spoken language, and the letters (graphemes), groups of letters, or syllables of written language through the Write to Read program. Our teachers support students to develop and apply new learning through a variety of teacher-led, small-group, and individual learning tasks focusing on each student’s specific need.

As our students progress in their learning, our teachers also increase the complexity and challenge that enable students to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create, and reflect.  Whilst developing their levels of understanding and proficiency, students also progress to increasingly more sophisticated spoken, written, and multimodal texts across a range of contexts with a focus on accuracy, fluency, and purpose.

We support our students to develop a love of learning that appreciates and enjoys English in all its variations. This is essential to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, entertain, persuade, argue, or simply facilitate meaningful interaction