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The 8 Key Learning Areas (KLA’s) of Mathematics, English, Science, Studies of Society & the Environment, Visual Arts and Performing Arts (Music), Technology, Physical Education and Language other than English are taught at Runcorn State School. To complement and enhance the teaching of the KLA’s, the school provides distinctive curriculum to cater for the learning needs of all our students. These include:
Runcorn State School offers a range of extra curricula activities including access to:
Resource Centre programs are Information Literacy Programs and are developed through cooperative planning with classroom teachers. ICT’s are integrated quite naturally into this resource based learning process. The program is then delivered and assessed by Class Teacher & Teacher Librarian together using various grouping strategies depending on the task. The focus is a team teaching approach. The program is an integral part of the classroom program as students in years 1 to 7 use print & computer based resources to learn through an inquiry process. Access to the Teacher Librarian, Resource Centre Lab and print resources is timetabled on a regular weekly basis. Prep to Year 2 classes are timetabled for 30 minutes while years 3 to 7 classes each have a one hour timeslot. This timeslot is additional to any other times the class teacher may book for class borrowing or extra access to the labs. The class teacher works independently with their students during these additional sessions. The inquiry process which is modelled and taught throughout the school is the Information Process Model. All learning activities can be placed somewhere along the cycle. Teaching using this model in context with students is important in developing student metacognition of their learning process. Runcorn provides students with a computer ratio of 1:5 students, provision of networked classroom computers and two computer labs adjacent to the resource centre. Ongoing Professional Development for staff including ICT Pedagogical License and Certificate Training is a priority in 2008 – 2009. |
