Our Program of Inquiry is based on the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Program Class teachers facilitate a comprehensive and challenging inquiry based approach to learning with particular focus on Literacy and Numeracy.
The Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate emphasises five essential elements of the curriculum, which are the concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and action. The concepts, as follows, shape and drive the units of inquiry, enabling genuine understanding of important ideas:
- Form: What is it like?
- Function: How does it work?
- Causation: Why is it like it is?
- Change: How is it changing?
- Connection: How is it connected to other things?
- Perspective: What are the points of view?
- Responsibility: What is our responsibility?
- Reflection: How do we know?
» View our slide-show presentation for an overview of the PYP
Classroom programs are enhanced with timetabled enrichment programs in Health and Physical Education, Music, Art, LOTE (Japanese) and ICT.
Theme based whole school days, excursions/incursion, Reading Recovery, Fellowships, Values Education, Perceptual Motor Programs, Clubs, camps, school concerts, musical productions, participation in giftedness programs and interschool and district sports further enrich the curriculum.