St Felix Catholic Primary School
St Felix school staff studied the school data to find programs that would address the needs of the student cohort. The school employed a numeracy coordinator to assist teachers to develop strategies to teach the mathematics curriculum through the proficiencies. …
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St Peter Chanel Catholic School
St Peter Chanel developed a whole-school initiative to concentrate on teaching mathematics through the proficiencies. The entire staff engaged with the analysis of the school data to find areas where the focus of teaching was to occur. The initiative …
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Mandurama Public School (Years K to 6)
Mandurama Public School is located in Mandurama, New South Wales on the Traditional Lands of the Wiradjuri People. Mandurama Public School is a multi-age school from K-6, with the focus of their STEM Connections illustration of practice centering around …
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Simonds Catholic College (Years 9 and 10)
In the STEM Connections project, Simonds Catholic College focused on improvement of the school environment. Students were asked to design and build a vertical garden. The design brief ensured that Science, Technologies and Mathematics were all well-represented …
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Toowoomba Grammar School
The mathematics coordinator at Toowoomba Grammar led the staff to undertake a change in the way mathematics was taught in the school. The focus was on differentiation of the curriculum to meet the learning needs of the students. The coordinator felt that …
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Northcote High School (Years 7 to 10)
Northcote High School is located in Northcote, Victoria on the Traditional Lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. The focus of their Years 7-10 STEM Connections illustration of practice was enabling student agency through environmental action. …
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St Michael’s Collegiate School
St Michael's Collegiate School is a F-12 girls school located in Hobart, Tasmania on the Traditional Lands of the Muwinina Peoples. The focus for their STEM Connections project was to engage girls in STEM lessons, they accomplished this by having students …
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Heathfield High School (Years 9 and 10)
Heathfield High School is a 8-12 co-educational government school located in Heathfield, South Australia on the Traditional Lands of the Peramangk Peoples of the Adelaide hills. Heathfield had entered into a school–business partnership, brokered by the …
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Henley High School (Years 9 and 10)
Henley High School is a 8-12 co-educational government school located in Henley Beach, South Australia on the Traditional Lands of the Kaurna Peoples of the Adelaide plains. The school l chose the development of a biofuel as the focus for its STEM Connections …
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How were the progressions developed?
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), in partnership with NSW Department of Education, led the development of national collaborative action to develop the progressions from mid-2016 to the end of 2017. During 2016, version …
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Version 3 of National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions
In December 2019, the then Education Council agreed that Version 3 of the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions (NLNLPs) would be used for the alpha phase of the Online Formative Assessment Initiative in 2020. Consistent with that decision, …
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Sadadeen Primary School
Sadadeen Primary School is a small school in Alice Springs. There are 130 children and around 92 per cent of them are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background and 80 per cent for whom EAL/D (English is an Additional Language or Dialect). The school …
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Lansdowne Crescent Primary School
Lansdowne Crescent Primary is a city school in Hobart. At the time of filming the school had a population of 400 students from Foundation to Year 6. The school has been implementing the Australian Curriculum since 2011 and has embedded the English, mathematics, …
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Mawson Primary School
Mawson Primary School is situated in the suburbs of Canberra. 50 per cent of the student population has EAL/D. The school offers all students the opportunity to learn Mandarin as a second language. There are several bilingual classes, where students learn …
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The Hills Christian Community School
The Hills Christian Community School (HCCS) is an independent school situated in the picturesque Adelaide Hills, two minutes from Hahndorf and 20 minutes from Adelaide. With the opening of the Early Learning Centre (ELC), HCCS offers effective transition …
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Gillen Primary School, Alice Springs
Gillen Primary School is situated in the town of Alice Springs and provides educational programs from preschool to Year 6. At the time of filming the school had 312 students of which 180 are Indigenous. Gillen has been a ‘National Accelerated Literacy …
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Kalinda Primary School
Kalinda Primary School is a government school in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. At the time of filming there were 473 students enrolled, 27 teaching staff and 11 non-teaching staff. Kalinda has an energetic learning environment, and staff continually …
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Two-way science at Leonora: investigating the Mamutjitji (antlion) and other invertebrates
Leonora District High School is a Foundation to Year 12 government school located in the remote mining community of Leonora which is 840 kms north-east of Perth in Western Australia on the traditional lands of the Wankatja people. It has an enrolment …
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Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School
Our Lady of Mercy Deloraine School is in rural Tasmania and at the time of filming had 135 students, with this number made up of multi-age classes from Foundation to Year 6, and 13 teaching staff. The focus of this school is the provision of education …
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St John’s Lutheran Primary School
St John's Lutheran Primary School is located in the coastal town of Bundaberg and has been operating for over 30 years. At the time of filming, the school had 200 F–7students. A community kindergarten is also located on site. The school began the curriculum …
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