Enrichment

Literacy

The development of Literacy skills is essential in creating confident and purposeful communicators, imaginative thinkers and curious and informed citizens. At St Albans North Primary School we place a strong emphasis on exploring language and expanding student understanding of vocabulary through engaging and meaningful texts that include a variety of themes and concepts.​

Students are lead through a daily 2 hour literacy block that includes Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening and Vocabulary study. They are taught using a diverse range of instructional practices that model what good readers and writers do, encourages participation in order to display independent practice of lesson content, promotes a love for books and enables goal setting in order to assist students in building their literacy learning.

Numeracy

Numeracy is the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need in order to use mathematics in a wide range of real-life situations. At St Albans North Primary School, we believe that an understanding of numbers and a solid knowledge of mathematical concepts enable children to make authentic connections between related ideas and to apply their understanding in new and unfamiliar contexts.

At St Albans North Primary School, our Maths program:

• • Aims to engage students in math by making it fun and exciting for both students and teachers.
  • Allows for all students to experience success, with lessons adapted to suit different levels of ability.

The most powerful way for students to learn Maths is to have the opportunity to discover and make connections for themselves. At St Albans North, our teachers help children develop independence and investigating skills throughout all the levels.

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

St Albans North Primary School students from Prep to Grade 6 engage in activities that extend their thinking in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The aim of STEM is to encourage students to develop confidence early in life; giving them skills and strategies to continue learning and applying themselves in these areas as their education grows.

Students participate in a 1:1 school provided iPad program that allows student to increase their understanding of Digital Technology and Digital Literacy. They are encouraged to let their imaginations run wild when creating digital content.

Robotics is a large part of the STEM curriculum at our school. St Albans North Primary School has a variety of robots suitable for every age so that every student in the school has the opportunity to explore the possibilities. Our aim is for students to design, create and program their own robotic creations in the future.

Our STEM program is continually growing and evolving.

The ARTS

At St Albans North Primary School we challenge each child’s creativity and imagination. An Arts program is offered where the students have the opportunity to attend class for an hour a week. The Arts program includes Visual, Performing and Media Art.
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The Visual Arts program covers the techniques of Drawing, Printing, Painting, Collage, Modelling, Construction and Threads & Textiles.

The Performing Arts program includes 3 learning areas; Music, Dance, Drama. Students explore the elements of dance; time, space and energy. Students engage in games, exercises, improvisation, script, mime, puppetry and performance, focusing on their expressive skills; voice, movement, gesture and facial expression. These disciplines are celebrated in our end of year Whole School Concert.
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The Media Art Program offers students opportunities to explore telling stories through sound and images, including photos and film. They make and share their media artworks as artists and audience.

Health & PE

St Albans North Primary School provides a high quality Physical Education program for every child. It is designed to prepare students for a healthy and active lifestyle through the development of skills, knowledge, teamwork and positive attitudes. Our comprehensive program provides children with lifelong learning through movement, physical activity and sporting experiences focusing on improving, the sequential development of fundamental motor and locomotion skills, gymnastics, athletics, health and fitness. We also have a range of equipment that ensures a variety of exciting new experiences each session. Various school coaching programs are also offered throughout each term.

​Our specialist Physical Education teacher, leads a skill based Physical Education programs with Prep – Year 6 children each week. Children in the junior school will learn and practice the correct techniques for running, hopping, jumping, skipping, catching, throwing, kicking, rolling, balancing, twisting and turning. While those in the middle and senior school will develop the capacity to link these skills into more complex and coordinated movement sequences. As students develop increasingly complex motor skills, they will be given opportunities to then apply these to appropriately modified games and sport-specific settings.

Italian

At St Albans North Primary School all learners participate in an hour session weekly of Italian Language Studies.​

Learning a language gives learners the opportunity to further improve their communication and literacy skills. It allows them to learn about different cultures, their traditions, history and further develop a sense of respect and understanding for others. Learners are continually encouraged to reflect on their culture, make connections and compare it to life in Italy.

Our Italian sessions cover a variety of engaging themes and topics, including: Greetings, Sport, Animals, Parts of the body, Pinocchio, Italian culture, Food, Hobbies, Festivals and Family, just to name a few.​

When possible Italian sessions are linked in with classroom Inquiry topics as well as topics taught in the Arts and Physical Education.