TEACHING & LEARNING
Our teaching and learning programs follow the principles of a developmentally appropriate and integrated curriculum.
If you would like to know more about our teaching and learning policies, please visit our policies page.
WHAT IS MULTI-AGE LEARNING?
Spensley Street Primary School provides an inclusive, multi-aged learning environment with an integrated curriculum, both broad-ranging and developmentally appropriate.
Our multi-aged class structures group students of different ages together for learning, giving them opportunities to experience a range of social and working relationships.
At Spensley Street, our Prep students are in classes with Year 1 and Year 2 students. Our older students are also grouped in classes made up of more than one year level. In 2019, these classes are Years 3&4 and Years 5&6.
Multi-ageing is a well-established class structure at Spensley Street. Over time, the children have the opportunity to move from being the youngest in the group to the eldest. Teachers value the flexible learning environment that is responsive to the students’ skills, abilities, stages of development, interests and personalities - not just their age.
In our multi-aged classes, we provide our students with stimulating, targeted and challenging learning opportunities to ensure they become successful, confident learners with a strong sense of self.
Multi-ageing provides opportunities for a wide range of relationships and social experiences and encourages students to appreciate the diversity of talents, skills and abilities of classmates.
SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS
At Spensley Street our goal is to develop successful, lifelong learners. We provide diverse, challenging and child-centred learning programs so that our students become:
RESPECTFUL open-minded, accepting, understanding people who value differences;
PRINCIPLED ethical, honest, responsible, fair, independent people with integrity;
CARING empathetic, compassionate, kind people who are concerned about the feelings of others, able to get along with others, to understand and appreciate their own cultures and open to the perspectives, values and traditions of other individuals, communities and cultures;
THOUGHTFUL curious, reflective, critical problem solvers, able to demonstrate judgment and to make inferences;
GENERATIVE creative, original, inquisitive, imaginative, resourceful people, able to show initiative, and to be active in their learning;
INDUSTRIOUS motivated, organised, self-reliant, tidy people, able to stay on task and show perseverance;
KNOWLEDGEABLE people who demonstrate expertise, understandings and skills confidently and appropriately, willing to explore concepts, ideas and issues that have a local and global significance;
RISK TAKERS courageous, resilient, willing to try something new, people who demonstrate an independent spirit;
COMMUNICATORS people who understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively, and who work effectively and collaboratively with others.
Our students’ reports, which parents and carers receive twice each year, evaluate children’s skills and knowledge against Victorian Curriculum standards and reflect the qualities of successful learners.
ASSESSMENT & REPORTING
Assessment is very important to us at Spensley Street. It forms the basis of our strong teaching and learning programs.
Teachers use a range of assessment methods to evaluate student progress and communicate this to students and their families.
For more information about the types of assessment we use, please download a copy of our Assessment & Reporting Factsheet and check out our teaching and learning policies on the Policy page of the website.
CONTACT US
193 Spensley Street, Clifton Hill
Victoria, 3068
(03) 9481 4666
