Our educational innovations
	Passionate intrinsic life long learners
	Four pillars curriculum
	Academic excellence
	Enjoying learning

OUR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS: (top)

PASSIONATE INTRINSIC LIFE LONG LEARNERS

We have an ongoing commitment to continue to develop our ‘True learning environment’ designed to meet the specific individual learning needs of students. We have created programs to ensure our students are engaged, responsible for their learning, motivated and proud of their achievements. We believe it is important that we inspire our children to learn because they are motivated and passionate about learning and not just because we ask them to learn. As a result we are creating intrinsic learners where children have a very strong desire to learn. It is important that we develop this motivation and passion for learning within our children, so it will take them into the future as lifelong learners.

As part of being motivated and inspired to learn children take responsibility for their own learning by:

1. understanding their learning needs,

2. creating and implementing strategies to learn; and

3. recognising and evaluating their own and others achievements for individual and collective development. (top)

With the desire to learn and do well our children are achieving fantastic results!

FOUR PILLARS CURRICULUM

We have created our own curriculum to enable students to understand the processes of learning and how to improve their learning skills. This enables our students to reflect on and analyse their own learning processes and create higher standards resulting in greater achievements. This curriculum comprises of six pages of learning keys framed using the ‘Four Pillars of Learning’ – Learning to be, Learning to know, Learning to do and Learning to live together from Learning the Treasure Within – Jacque Delor UNESCO

This is a sample of our ‘Four Pillars Curriculum’ 

LEARNING TO DO Co-operation Being a team member Co-operative group worker Listen to others Conform with group consensus (where appropriate) By being positive Support/encourage/other group members Share – leadership, responsibilities Respect views of others Contribute Role responsibilities

LEARNING TO BE Independence/own learning Complete work without any additional instructions Being confident Desire and sense of achievement/success Having beliefs in your abilities Identifying strengths/weaknesses Can work individually Life skills Reflecting/evaluating on their progress

LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER Communication skills Be able to verbalise Think first Relating to others positively Respected by peers Conveying a point Use appropriate language for targeted audiences Variety of forms/styles

LEARNING TO KNOW Develop research skills Quality of content Planning Variety of resources Summarizing, analysing, synthesizing Lateral thinking Styles of thinking Sharing, presenting information Being selective – appropriate information

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

The Little Bendigo Primary School staff define ‘Academic Excellence’ as:

Striving for excellence in all areas with all children built on a system of positive reinforcements with the belief that achievements do count as a pathway to individual success.

This has become a program within our school where staff and students are continually analysing their achievements and looking for self-improvement. This process then relates to the ‘Four Pillars Curriculum’. For example, children set their own goals, analyse their achievements, create and implement strategies for improvement and then evaluate their improvements. (top)

ENJOY LEARNING

It is all about creating an enjoyment of learning, wanting to learn and being provided with the tools of how to learn, not just for now but also for the future.  (top)