At St. Martin de Porres primary school we are committed to a Learning and Teaching cycle that is developed collaboratively and offers all students an opportunity to grow.
We are committed to creating and implementing explicit, personalised, authentic and contemporary learning opportunities. These opportunities empower school staff, students, parents and community members to engage in the learning process.
Our aim is that students will emerge from St Martin’s as engaged, successful, diversely skilled thinkers who are independent, confident and resilient citizens. They will be ready to interact with, and contribute to, the local and global community.
We believe that learning and teaching will be most effective when there is :
- personal goal setting, based on each individual needs– to empower all as co-responsible learners;
- reflection and feedback– to give direction and encourage personal development;
- tiered success criteria and learning intentions to cater for individual need and to allow learners to experience success;
- a schoolwide toolkit of full class participation strategies- to reduce cognitive load and provide a routine based predictable learning environment
- data gathered to inform teaching and provide evidence of learning;
- higher order thinking skills embedded to develop connections and deeper thinking;
- accountable student and teacher talk– how they talk to and with each other– being respectful, focussed, logical, clear and precise in order to understand, challenge, build upon and refine each other’s ideas;
- connection with the wider community- to provide expertise, develop partnerships and access to real life learning;