Pedagogy

A range of high-quality pedagogies are used across the school to provide rigorous learning experiences. These range from explicit instruction in key areas of literacy and numeracy to broader play-based and inquiry learning pedagogies.

Our early years classrooms have a strong focus on play-based learning, which:

• Incorporates play as a central component of the learning process
• Encourages children to explore concepts and ideas through hands-on experiences
• Promotes cognitive, social, emotional, psychological, and physical development
• Utilises structured and unstructured play to promote development and learning in children.

Our early years staff use a structured synthetic phonics approach to teach phoneme grapheme corrospondence to support decoding and develop oral reading fluency.

Our primary years classrooms use a combination of explicit and direct instruction to support the development of foundational knowledge and skills, and inquiry learning to support students to be curious about their world and demonstrate their learning capabilities and dispositions.

Staff use standardised assessments, regular progress checks and daily reviews to monitor student progress and learing engagement which informs their next steps in learning and goal setting.