In Years 1/2 our school has double classrooms facilitating team teaching and enhanced collaboration across classes, enabling the teachers to work closely with students to develop and implement programs that challenge each individual student. We provide an environment where we facilitate exciting, enriching activities that foster students’ teamwork as well as their individual talents and strengths.

Supporting the Victorian Curriculum, the literacy focus is on reading, writing, speaking and listening with comprehension strategies taught explicitly through our reading program.

Students participate in whole class reading, independent reading and small group reading sessions.

Writing sessions begin with a whole class focus led by the teacher. Students learn how to write various genres and how to apply the 6+1 Traits of writing. Word study is a key part of our writing development and is focused on letter patterns and sounds, as well as commonly used word lists and personal words.

Students are also given various opportunities to give formal presentations, share ideas and opinions.

Open-ended tasks and problem solving activities, with a real-life application, form an integral part of the numeracy program in Years 1/2. Interactive Technologies are used to access exciting curriculum ideas from all over the world, making maths interesting and above all, fun!