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Learning at Pleasant Street Primary School
Student life at Pleasant Street Primary School is engaging, consistent and structured.
Our core focus is on students building deep knowledge about the world and foundational skills in Literacy and Numeracy.
We follow a structured literacy approach that focuses on phonemic awareness, synthetic phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading challenging texts about our content focus. We have a strong and consistent synthetic phonics program from Foundation to Year 2, Spell-Ex as a spelling program in Year 3 and 4 and a focus on morphology in Years 4, 5 and 6. Students learn the foundations of sentence structure as well as how to write extended texts such as narratives, persuasive texts and informational texts. Our students are active learners who read and write about their Inquiry topic each day and then use their deep knowledge to investigate, experiment, create or influence.
In Maths we run a structured program including Daily Review each day for fact fluency and concept recall, whole class explicit teaching with worked examples and then independent work time where students work on their own, in pairs or with the teacher. Students use materials and manipulatives to support their understanding and we work on building fact fluency to support students to solve problems.
Our Inquiry program is knowledge-based and planned carefully to be structured and coherent, building on what has been learnt each year. Favourite topics include learning about farms and food in Foundation, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt in Year 1 and minibeasts in Year 2 with a trip to Melbourne Museum. In Year 3, students learn about Vikings, as well as visiting the aquarium to consolidate their learning of ecosystems. Year 4 students love to 'build Rome in a day' as a celebration of their learning about Ancient Rome and create fossils when learning about Earth's surface. Year 5 go back in time at Sovereign Hill once they have learnt about the Gold Rush, as well as discovering more about space at the Space Centre. Year 6 students demonstrate their understanding of science concepts at their Science Fair and pitch a business in their Economics unit.
Arts are an important part of our culture at Pleasant Street. In Term 3 each alternating year we run a school concert featuring the Dance and Drama skills of our students or an Arts Festival where the school is filled with the Visual Art of our students.
We offer specialist subjects in Art, Japanese, STEM and P.E as well as learning experiences in Bike Ed, debating, instrumental music, choir, chess and school camps. Sport and physical education are valued at Pleasant Street Primary School, with many different opportunities for students including athletics, swimming and cross country. Senior school students are also able to try out for many interschool competitions such as tennis, swimming, cricket, football and lawn bowls.
One of our core beliefs is the importance of a positive approach to wellbeing, which we foster through mindfulness practises in each classroom, as well as explicitly teaching the Respectful Relationships curriculum every week. Students are involved in lunchtime clubs where they can meet other peers who share the same interests and passions.
Our core focus is on students building deep knowledge about the world and foundational skills in Literacy and Numeracy.
We follow a structured literacy approach that focuses on phonemic awareness, synthetic phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading challenging texts about our content focus. We have a strong and consistent synthetic phonics program from Foundation to Year 2, Spell-Ex as a spelling program in Year 3 and 4 and a focus on morphology in Years 4, 5 and 6. Students learn the foundations of sentence structure as well as how to write extended texts such as narratives, persuasive texts and informational texts. Our students are active learners who read and write about their Inquiry topic each day and then use their deep knowledge to investigate, experiment, create or influence.
In Maths we run a structured program including Daily Review each day for fact fluency and concept recall, whole class explicit teaching with worked examples and then independent work time where students work on their own, in pairs or with the teacher. Students use materials and manipulatives to support their understanding and we work on building fact fluency to support students to solve problems.
Our Inquiry program is knowledge-based and planned carefully to be structured and coherent, building on what has been learnt each year. Favourite topics include learning about farms and food in Foundation, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt in Year 1 and minibeasts in Year 2 with a trip to Melbourne Museum. In Year 3, students learn about Vikings, as well as visiting the aquarium to consolidate their learning of ecosystems. Year 4 students love to 'build Rome in a day' as a celebration of their learning about Ancient Rome and create fossils when learning about Earth's surface. Year 5 go back in time at Sovereign Hill once they have learnt about the Gold Rush, as well as discovering more about space at the Space Centre. Year 6 students demonstrate their understanding of science concepts at their Science Fair and pitch a business in their Economics unit.
Arts are an important part of our culture at Pleasant Street. In Term 3 each alternating year we run a school concert featuring the Dance and Drama skills of our students or an Arts Festival where the school is filled with the Visual Art of our students.
We offer specialist subjects in Art, Japanese, STEM and P.E as well as learning experiences in Bike Ed, debating, instrumental music, choir, chess and school camps. Sport and physical education are valued at Pleasant Street Primary School, with many different opportunities for students including athletics, swimming and cross country. Senior school students are also able to try out for many interschool competitions such as tennis, swimming, cricket, football and lawn bowls.
One of our core beliefs is the importance of a positive approach to wellbeing, which we foster through mindfulness practises in each classroom, as well as explicitly teaching the Respectful Relationships curriculum every week. Students are involved in lunchtime clubs where they can meet other peers who share the same interests and passions.
Technology at Pleasant Street Primary School
We aim to be innovative and purposeful in our use of digital technologies at Pleasant Street Primary School. Technology is integrated into teaching and learning and students explore a wide use of technology including collaborating with peers and showcasing creativity.
We are a 1:1 iPad school from Semester 2 at Year 2 which allows for the authentic and flexible use of technology. Students also have access to robotics, coding curriculum and smart TVs to further foster collaboration, problem solving and sharing of work.
As an eSmart accredited school, we understand that digital safety is crucial for our students and teach cyber safety and digital literacy at every year level.
We are a 1:1 iPad school from Semester 2 at Year 2 which allows for the authentic and flexible use of technology. Students also have access to robotics, coding curriculum and smart TVs to further foster collaboration, problem solving and sharing of work.
As an eSmart accredited school, we understand that digital safety is crucial for our students and teach cyber safety and digital literacy at every year level.
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