learning
We offer a curriculum where children are encouraged to be active, creative, social, resourceful and thoughtful
Brain based learning curriculum
We provide a problem based learning curriculum with a creative solution focus. We know that teaching is different from learning. We focus on learning and are inspired by brain research and life experiences. Both the children’s current level of understanding and skills and the W.A. Curriculum outlines are used to inform our daily practice.
Constructive Learning
Our focus is on co-operation and co-responsibility, with a sense of interdependence and individuals contributing to their own learning. We believe children construct their knowledge in and through group situations. In these groups children generate ideas, pose questions, explore, discover, make mistakes, challenge and confirm.
Multi-age group learning
Schools are one of the few places in our society that separate us by age and this seems to be for organisational purposes rather than educational reasons. Therefore, we intentionally have multi age grouping to cater for the differences in each brain’s unique timetable for development. Multi age grouping allows children to develop long term working relationships with their educator and peers, whom they stay with over a number of years.
playgroup
Our Tuesday morning outdoor playgroup runs between 9:30 and 11:30am and engages families and children between 0-3 with each other, our Playgroup Listener and the expansive early childhood outdoor learning environment.
early
childhood cluster
The Early Childhood Cluster caters for Kindergarten-Year 3 children in a collaborative, family like setting designed around active, curious, creative and capable children who all come with their own knowledge and skills, family stories, individual personalities and strengths.
middle childhood cluster
The Middle Childhood Cluster typically caters for children in Years 4-6 following on from the ECC years where children have gained expansive skills and knowledge about themselves, learning how to learn and learning to communicate, problem-solve, resolve conflict, generate and act upon ideas, initiate constructive and purposeful change
young
adolescent
cluster
The Young Adolescent Cluster caters for children in Years 7-10 building on from the experiences, skills and confidence developed in the Middle Childhood Cluster. They increasingly know how to learn and work collaboratively together and independently and how they matter as individuals in the cogs and wheels of community.
future pathways…
Post year 10 Child Siders have headed to Manea Senior College, SEDA, Harvey Agriculture College, Bunbury Grammar (or another school of their family choice), TAFE, apprenticeships, tertiary education, work placements….
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