At Lake Gwelup Primary School, teachers implement a balanced literacy program supporting the whole school's pedagogy. Teachers are equipped with up to date, best practice training to ensure students receive quality, differentiated teaching and learning. Our approaches also support rich integration across the curriculum, such as History and Geography. In addition, utilising Digital Technologies to enhance literacy learning complements our instructional practices whilst supporting high student engagement.
At Lake Gwelup, our English curriculum is designed to develop children's love of reading, writing and discussion and prepare our learners for life as successful, valuable, and socially responsible citizens. We inspire an appreciation of our rich and varied literacy heritage and a habit of reading widely and often.
We nurture a culture where children take pride in their writing, can write clearly, imaginatively, and accurately, and adapt their language and style for various contexts. We inspire children to be confident in the art of speaking and listening and to use questioning to communicate and further their learning in all curriculum areas.
We want all our pupils to be proficient readers, writers, spellers, and speakers who can transfer their English skills to other curriculum subjects and be prepared for the next steps in their education.
Quality instruction at LGPS is underpinned by the Big 6 to facilitate and support success in Literacy.
Through connected practice across our K-6 classrooms, we aim to ensure our students will:
Please see our Literacy Instruction Overview for more information.