School Goal Two
To foster literacy development with a focus on achieving proficiency in reading and writing.
By providing a balanced and foundational early years (K-3) literacy program that address gaps in literacy knowledge (strengthening phonetic and phonemic skills), will we see an increase in literacy proficiency and engagement in all learners?
Literacy skills and competency impact all areas of learning and future success. Research shows that direct teaching of phonological and decoding skills will maximize growth for all learners and will in turn provide a strong foundation for literacy development.
We will draw on various sources of classroom evidence, using this as the basis for our planning and our school-wide literacy practices.
This goal and focused inquiry question aligns directly to our strategic priority in Literacy. Additionally, our intended approaches are deeply connected to First Peoples Principles of Learning.
First Peoples Principles of Learning
The Literacy Goal needs to ensure that:
- Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
- Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.
- Intervention and intentional teaching of skills through: Heggerty, Science of Reading values, LIT role;
- Whole school book club – “The Wild Robot” – the PAC has purchased a book for each family to read; We will have read aloud after school opportunities in the LLC for those families that have language barriers;
- Family Book Club will be connected to future STEM and Writing Fair;
- Literacy committee to develop whole school activities to promote literacy;
- Unified early years literacy program approach to ensure sequential skill development, common language, tools and scaffolding;
- PAC supports funding for a Home Reading Program for Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes;
- Infusion of Story Workshop in K-2 classes to develop writing and storytelling skills; and
- Grade 3 classes engaged in Story Studio workshops to continue to build skills and engagement in story writing.
Over the 2023-24 year, we will track progress on our initiatives identified in this year’s plan.
Summary learning, based on evidence gathered over the year, will provide us with key learnings to guide next steps for the 2024-25 school year and beyond.
