In defining our vision and values for our school community it is essential we look to the future and the world and workplace our students will be entering.

Literacy Curriculum atHuntingdale Primary School

By Eiji Nishikubo, Bilingual Co-ordinator

In defining our vision and values for our school community it is essential we look to the future and the world and workplace our students will be entering as adults. Huntingdale’s vision is future oriented providing:

Authentic language competency in a second language (Japanese) and deep intercultural understandings

Vision & Values

Thinking skills to access, synthesise and transfer information in a 21st Century Knowledge Economy

High level personal and interpersonal skills to facilitate strong High level social connectedness and personal wellbeing

Excellent literacy and numeracy skills

Monica ScullyPrincipal

Our School Motto Aim High underpins the quality of our teaching and learning reflecting

High Expectations High Achievement High Engagement

School Motto

Our school is situated in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne within close proximity to public transport networks and Monash University.

We currently have 240 students enrolled at the school grouped in ten classes. We have experienced significant growth in the Junior School over the past two years.

As well as serving our local community, a number of families travel from a range of suburbs across Melbourne to provide their children with the opportunity to experience authentic bilingual education.

Families with a Japanese heritage background have been steadily increasing.

Demographic

All students are taught for 7.5 hours a week in and through the Japanese language.

A daily two hour English literacy block and a daily one hour numeracy block

A weekly two and a half hour Japanese literacy block

A weekly two hours integrated studies, one hour PE, ICT(senior grades only) Music and Art program taught in Japanese.

Highly effective school wide assessment processes to identify and monitor the progress of every student

Curriculum ApproachA Comprehensive Whole School Approach

Highly differentiated English and Japanese Literacy programs

Same goals, but a different approach in the Japanese and English programs in order to avoid repetition of the curriculum

Infusion of thinking skills and technology tools to provide further challenge and stimulate learning

Provision of individual literacy intervention support through our Bridges program and targeted Year One Reading Recovery Program.

A weekly Japanese Reading Program.

Curriculum Approach

Same goals, different approach in Japanese and English program

Weekly team meetings to plan strategies to continually challenge and support each and every student

Fortnightly Bilingual meetings to share the progress of both the English and Japanese Literacy programs in order to effectively achieve goals.

Meetings

Time Table Meeting Times

School Calender Meeting Times

A daily two hour English literacy block and a daily one hour numeracy block A weekly two and a half hour Japanese literacy block

Literacy Block

English Literacy BlockReading / Writing

JP Literacy BlockReading / Writing / Speaking /

Listenig

Early years literacy and numeracy is a whole school priority

Meet the needs of individual learners Encourage students to be independent

leaners Teaching aides will be provided to all JP

classes in the literacy block All students have a weekly one on one

reading time with parent helpers as part of the Reading Program.

Apply Early Years Model to all JP classes

Early Years Model

http://hps-jp-reading-program.wikispaces.com/ All students from Prep to Grade 4s participate weekly based

program.

JP Reading Program

Sample Assessments Linked to the Progression Measures Unpacked

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Assessments

HPS Journey 1997

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2011

Reading Program

Workshop with Caulfield & Gruyere PS

MLTAV Action Research Projects

TAIKO

Math

EMR LOTE Meeting

MLTAV Assessment & Reporting Project

LOTE CSF

Early Literacy Model

Literacy Coaching

Whole School Curriculum

LOTE CSF II

VELS

TPL Scope & Sequences

TPL Curriculum

Development

JILLC

SOSE

Science

Integrated Studies

Students’ levels of ability have become much wider compared to 10 years ago. How do we cater our curriculum to meet all the differing levels?

Creating our own resources & updating existing resources. Synchronising the JP curriculum with the English Curriculum – The

English literacy curriculum focus on mainly Reading and Writing. The JP curriculum focuses on these two areas, in addition to the speaking and listening skills.

Teaching in the TL is more time consuming then teaching in English More difficult to engage students in JP lessons, as their comprehension

of the language is limited. Time table –a 2 hour literacy block once a week is not sufficient for

students to achieve fluency in the target language NAPLAN creates high competition amongst schools in the areas of

English literacy and numeracy. How can we justify our program in this environment?

The Heritage Japanese Course will be introduced under the National Curriculum by 2015. One third of our students may be classified as Heritage, two thirds may be classified as LOTE and a small percentage may be classified as First Language Background Speakers.

Challenges

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We won the State Curriculum Innovation Award in 2011.