CREANEY PRIMARY SCHOOL
EST.
1983
LITERACY AND
NUMERACY
At Creaney Primary School, our designated Literacy blocks ensure students provide high quality, evidence-based programs that allow students to learn how to engage with literacy, literature and language.
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The Western Australian Curriculum aims to ensure that students learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose. We do this through a range of programs and strategies including;
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· Synthetic phonics program (Creaney Phonics K-2)
· Word Origins (Year 3-6)
· Novel studies to teach language comprehension.
· Literature-based Units from West Coast Language Development Centre (Year K-2).
· Talk for Writing program (K-6)
· Minilit and Reading Tutor Program (Multilit) for reading intervention
At Creaney Primary School, our designated Numeracy blocks ensure students are engaged in high quality, differentiated learning programs that meet individual student needs. We explicitly teach and consolidate a range of Maths skills, knowledge and understanding to develop confident and independent mathematical thinkers. Our blocks have a concentrated warm-up component where review, recall and prelude are used to hone or introduce basic maths facts. The main body of each lesson is used to introduce and consolidate new skills or knowledge, with the plenary section completed to review what has been covered.
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The Western Australian Curriculum – Mathematics covers the three content strands of Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability. The four proficiency strands of Problem Solving, Reasoning, Understanding and Fluency are embedded into these content strands.
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We use a range of programs to support our Maths program including:
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Bond Blocks
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Origo Stepping Stones
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Mathletics
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Matharoo
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Creaney Basic Facts
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Learning Through Doing
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Paul Swan activities
