CREANEY PRIMARY SCHOOL
EST.
1983
LITERACY AND
NUMERACY
Literacy
At Creaney Primary School, our designated Literacy blocks ensure students are engaged in high-quality, evidence-based programs that support the development of literacy, language and literature skills.
The Western Australian Curriculum aims for students to learn to listen, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts, with accuracy, fluency and purpose. We support this through a range of programs and strategies, including:
· Synthetic phonics program (Creaney Phonics K-2)
· Word Origins program (Year 3-6)
· Novel studies to develop language comprehension
· Literature-based units from the West Coast Language Development Centre (Year K-2).
· Talk for Writing program (K-6)
· MiniLit and Reading Tutor Program (MultiLit) for targeted reading intervention
Numeracy
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.
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.
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
