School Vision

Curriculum Plan

2007

School Vision

Cowes Primary School aims to promote an education of real value and the attainment of excellence, enabling all students to reach their academic, social and physical potential.

Values

The Cowes Primary School community values:

·      Mutual respect with an emphasis on empathy, tolerance, honesty and kindness.

·      Responsibility with an emphasis on excellence, self esteem, appropriate choices and effective organisation.

·      Teams with an emphasis on creativity, collaboration, effective communication and cooperation.

·      Learners with an emphasis on continual learning, a positive attitude, persistence and the acceptance of different learning styles.

Values Program

Term	Value	Foundation	Social Skill
1	Teams	Confidence	1. smile week
			2. listening
			3. playing together
			4. please/thank you
			5. give way
			6. excuse me/sorry
			7. taking turns
			8. being helpful
			9. punctuality
			10. good winners/good losers
2	Learners	Persistence	1. body language
			2. voice
			3. using appropriate language
			4. respecting adults
			5. respecting your peers
			6. respecting differences
			7. respecting your property
			8. respecting others property
			9. respecting our school
			10. respecting our environment
3	Responsibility	Organisation	1. What is bullying?
			2. being assertive
			3. saying ‘no’
			4. negotiating
			5. suggesting and persuading
			6. making decisions in a group
			7. respecting the opinions of others
			8. sharing
			9. including others
			10. team work
4	Mutual Respect	Getting Along	1. doing your best
			2. setting goals
			3. who can help me?
			4. consequences
			5. rights
			6. seeing it through
			7. fixing things up
			8. having a go
			9. leadership
			10. being positive

The Principles of Learning & Teaching (P.o.L.T.)

Students learn best when:

The learning environment is supportive and productive.
In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 1.1 builds positive relationships through knowing and valuing each student
- 1.2 promotes a culture of value and respect for individuals and their communities
- 1.3 uses strategies that promote students' self-confidence and willingness to take risks with their learning
- 1.4 ensures each student experiences success through structured support, the valuing of effort and recognition of their work.
The learning environment promotes independence, interdependence and self motivation. In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 2.1 encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning
- 2.2 uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration.
Students' needs, backgrounds, perspectives and interests are reflected in the learning program. In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 3.1 uses strategies that are flexible and responsive to the values, needs and interests of individual students
- 3.2 uses a range of strategies that support the different ways of thinking and learning
- 3.3 builds on students' prior experiences, knowledge and skills
- 3.4 capitalises on students' experience of a technology rich world.
Students are challenged and supported to develop deep levels of thinking and application. In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 4.1 plans sequences to promote sustained learning that builds over time and emphasises connections between ideas
- 4.2 promotes substantive discussion of ideas
- 4.3 emphasises the quality of learning with high expectations of achievement
- 4.4 uses strategies that challenge and support students to question and reflect
- 4.5 uses strategies to develop investigating and problem solving skills
- 4.6 uses strategies to foster imagination and creativity.
Assessment practices are an integral part of teaching and learning.
In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 5.1 designs assessment practices that reflect the full range of learning program objectives
- 5.2 ensures that students receive frequent constructive feedback that supports further learning
- 5.3 makes assessment criteria explicit
- 5.4 uses assessment practices that encourage reflection and self assessment
- 5.5 uses evidence from assessment to inform planning and teaching.
Learning connects strongly with communities and practice beyond the classroom.
In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 6.1 supports students to engage with contemporary knowledge and practice
- 6.2 plans for students to interact with local and broader communities and community practices
- 6.3 uses technologies in ways that reflect professional and community practices.

Cowes Primary School Themes

Level 1

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Toys

Nursery Rhymes

Transport

Food

Dinosaurs

Australian Animals

Christmas

Level 2
	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Even	Change	Healthy Living	Animals	Tools – things that help us
Odd	Water - craft	Weather	Community	Festivals

Level 3
	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Even	Australia & Its People (humanities) Indigenous Australia	Commonwealth/Olympic Games	Phillip Island & the Sea	Simple Machines
Odd	Health & Nutrition	Australia & Its People (civics)	Science in Our World	Arts

Level 4
	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Even	Democracy	Media	Our Natural World	Inventions
Odd	Space	‘ology	Past, Present, Future	Human Machine

Assessment Schedule 2007

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Prep

Prep Interview

C.A.P.

Record of Oral Language

Running Record (if ready)

Word Knowledge

Early Years Numeracy Test

Galaxy Maths Magenta Test

Running Record

Word Knowledge

Handwriting Sample

Sounds

Galaxy Maths Red Test

Concept Test

Running Record

Word Knowledge

Galaxy Maths Yellow Test

100 most used words

Running Record

Benchmarking

Word Knowledge

Letter I.D.

Canberra Words

BURT Words

10 Minute Word Test

Handwriting Sample

Writing Sample

Spelling Test

Sounds

Early Years Numeracy Test

Galaxy Maths Blue Test

I Can Do Maths (ACER)

Prep

Ongoing

Running Records, Letter ID

Assessment Schedule 2007

Year 1

100 most used words

Observation Survey

Early Years Numeracy Interview

BURT words

SWST Spelling Test

100 most used words

BURT words

Observation Survey

Benchmarking

SWST Spelling Test

Early Years Numeracy Interview

I Can Do Maths (level A)

Year 1

Ongoing

Running Records, Weekly Spelling Tests

Year 2

Early Years Numeracy Interview

Running Records

Reading Progress (test 1)

BURT words

SWST spelling

Benchmarking/Lexiles

Reading Progress (test 1)

BURT words

SWST spelling

Early Years Numeracy Interview

I Can Do Maths (level B)

Year 2

Ongoing

Running Records/Lexiles, Weekly Spelling Tests, Nelson Maths weekly check & self-assessment

Assessment Schedule 2007

Year 3

Early Years Numeracy Interview

Reading Progress 2

BURT words

SWST spelling

Lexiles

AIM tests

Reading Progress 2

BURT words

SWST spelling

Lexiles

Early Years Numeracy Interview

ACER Maths Test 1

Year 3

Ongoing

Lexiles, Weekly Spelling Tests, Nelson Maths Weekly check & self-assessment, Practise AIM tests, Humanities/Science projects

Year 4

Early Years Numeracy Interview

DART reading (middle A)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

DART reading

(middle A)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

Early Years Numeracy Interview

ACER Maths Test 2

Year 4

Ongoing

Lexiles, Weekly Spelling Tests, Nelson Maths weekly check & self-assessment, Humanities/Science projects

Assessment Schedule 2007

Year 5

Nelson Maths Numeracy Assessment

DART reading (middle B)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

AIM tests

DART reading (middle B)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

ACER Maths Test 3

Year 5

Ongoing

Lexiles, Weekly Spelling Tests, Nelson Maths weekly check & self-assessment, AIM practise tests

Year 6

Nelson Maths Numeracy Assessment

DART reading (upper A)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

DART reading (upper A)

BURT words

Lexiles

SWST spelling

ACER Maths Test 4

Year 6

Ongoing

Lexiles, Weekly Spelling Tests, Nelson Maths Weekly check & self-assessment

Whole School

Reports

Parent/teacher interviews

Reports