E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public...
-
Upload
jonah-loller -
Category
Documents
-
view
213 -
download
1
Transcript of E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public...
![Page 1: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
ENHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH
ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING
COMMUNITY
Wiley Park Public School
![Page 2: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
OUR SCHOOL CONTEXT
• Wiley Park Public School is a large multi-cultural school located in South-Western Sydney.
• 24 classes including 3 support classes.
• 45 teaching staff including 3.6 ESL positions and 4 Community Language Teachers.
![Page 3: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
School Context
Student Population
Correct as of 04/04/2012
Whole School Population: 541 students LBOTE Population: 528 students
LBOTE %: 97.78%ESB Population (No LBOTE): 12 studentsNew Arrivals Students: 12 students
Refugees: 24 studentsMobility rate: 18.6%
7 most popular home languages spoken by students at WPPS• Arabic 36%• English as 1st lang (may have
LBOTE background) 13%• Vietnamese 9%• Bengali 9%• Samoan 7%• Urdu 6%• Cook Island Maori 4%• Indonesian 3% • (Pacific Island 13.3% in total)
43 languages spoken at WPPS(Varieties of African and Burmese Languages are included in ‘African Languages’ and ‘Burmese Languages’)
![Page 4: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
OUR LITERACY JOURNEY
Whole School Plan - Improved Literacy Skills of Students
(reading focus)
Engaging Our Parent
Community
Engaging Our Students
Engaging Our Teachers
![Page 5: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS – LITERACY
•Demonstrations and in-class modelling
Focus On Reading (FoR)
•Programming and Assessment
•Workshops and peer mentoring
Programming and assessment
•Whole school approach
•Workshops
•Cross KLA project team
Differentiation
•Best Start Regional Consultants
Best Start K-2
•Professional Development for Kindergarten Staff
•L3 Consultants
Language, Learning and Literacy (L3)
•Professional Learning
•Programming
New English Curriculum
![Page 6: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS – NUMERACY & ICT
•Professional Learning
•Programming and assessment tool
Numeracy Continuum
•Collaboratively Planning
Working Mathematically
•Integrate ICT
ICT and the Quality Framework
•Skills audit survey
•Targeted 3 ability groups
•Professional Development
Mentoring
![Page 7: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS - SUPPORT
•Implemented K-6
•Joint programming and assessment
Innovative Teaching and Learning Pods
•SMART teacher goals
•Reviewed annually by supervisors
•Incorporates the National Standards and School Plan
Teacher Professional Learning TPL
•Funded by National Partnerships NP
•Professional Learning
•Demonstration lessons
•K-1 classes, Special Unit and Targeted Students
Occupational and Speech Therapy
•Stage Leader Observations and feedback
•Support throughout Accreditation process
Mentoring for New Scheme Teachers
![Page 8: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
ENGAGING OUR STUDENTS – PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES
Homework Centre
Books in Homes
Reading Eggs and
Mathletics
iPads for each IO class to
support ILP’s Bounce Back
Refugee and Beginning School Well Kindergarten
Project
Free Vision Screening
Active After School
Learning Support Team
LST
Individual Learning Plans ILPs
Creative and Preforming Arts CAPA
Public Schools Sports
Association PSSAK-6 Literacy
Competitions
![Page 9: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Attendance
Dedicated Attendance Officer (AP)
Regular Home School Liaison Officer (HSLO)
auditing class rolls
Restructuring school
intervention process
Identifying ‘at risk’
students
Supporting families in crisis at a school and community
level through our
various external partners
![Page 10: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Community Partners & Programs
SaCC
Canterbury Bankstown
Migrant R
esource Centre
STARS Volunteers
TAFE
Catholic Care
Wiley Park Public School
![Page 11: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
PARENT PARTICIPATION FRAMEWORK
Parent as learn-ing sup-port
Parent as fam-ily and social skills mentor
Parent as member of the school com-munity
Parent as member of the wider community
![Page 12: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
PARENT AS LEARNING SUPPORT
Numeracy and literacyworkshops for parentsin helping their childrenwith learning at home.
![Page 13: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Parent as Learning Support
Leapfrogs transition to
Kinder program
Parent helpers in Support
unit classrooms
Regular information sessions (eg NAPLAN with CIO Fatima Amr)
Meet the teacher
Parent teacher interviews
Term Family Planner
Cyber Bullying sesions
![Page 14: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Parent as family and social skills
mentor
Good Beginnings pre-school Playgroup
Good Beginnings pre-school Playgroup
Beginning School Well
Refugee pre-school program
Corner café and Circle of Security programs
facilitated by Catholic Care with school counsellor
sessions on dealing with domestic issues
Canterbury Family Support Agency
interventions
First Aid Courses
![Page 15: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
PARENT AS MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITYo Community
o consultation
o Parent café
o Parent cookery interest group
o Parent lunch and info session on school services for targeted school community groups e.g. Pacific Island community
o Cultural Exchange Program (The Oaks)
o SLSO Refugee
o Parents & Citizens Association
![Page 16: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
PARENT SOCIAL EXCURSIONS
Parent Excursion to Fish Market with CLOs.
Biggest Morning Tea with Robert Furolo.
Parent Excursion to Auburn Botanical Garden.
![Page 17: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
MULTICULTURAL DAY
Wiley Park Public School holds a Multicultural Day every year to celebrate their diversity through dancing, their cultural stories and food.
![Page 18: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Parent as member of the
Wider Community
TAFE computer and English classes with
Free Child Care
Good Neighbour Program supported
by Schools as Community (SAC)
Other Sac programs Playgroups, Sewing
Circles, Good Beginnings
![Page 19: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
A STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE
![Page 20: E NHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY Wiley Park Public School.](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022070307/551b40c2550346d41a8b56e1/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS