Department Endorsed Programs
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Primary Extension and Challenge Program
Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC) is a part-time withdrawal program for upper primary school Years 5-6 students.
Identified gifted and talented students are selected to participate in differentiated programs offered in a range of delivery modes.
Delivery modes include:
- PEAC centres based within a district centre or office with a series of specialist courses or programs.
- Coordinators who establish courses in a range of schools and/or other sites, with teachers released to teach these.
- Allocation to schools where multi-age programs operate within schools.
- Online delivery of programs.
Programs focus on:
- Social interaction with gifted and talented peers.
- Intellectual rigour and challenge.
- Pursuit of excellence.
- Development of higher-order process skills.
- In-depth investigations of real problems.
- Open-ended activities that encourage choice and negotiation.
- Opportunities to interact with practising experts.
- Students working at their own pace.
- Self/peer evaluation and reflection of performance.
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School-Based Programs
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Prime Maths Australia
Scholastic PRIME Mathematics for Australian Schools is a synthesis of the requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics and the pedagogy and instructional design used by the top-performing nations. It covers both the Content Descriptions of the Australian curriculum and the Proficiency Strands.
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Promoting Literacy Development - PLD
PLD provides an Australian, evidence-based approach to Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP) for primary school educators. Aligned with the Science of Reading, PLD's SSP approach extends from junior to upper primary years, fostering a cohesive whole school approach.
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Spelling Mastery
Spelling Mastery is an evidence-based, Direct Instruction program used widely in Australia (Levels A-F) to teach spelling through phonemic, morphemic, and whole-word strategies.
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Talk For Writing
Talk for Writing is a unique process that uses spoken activities to develop writing skills. Quality writing is created by first expanding and developing students' oral language skills and then teaching the necessary steps for exceptional sentence, paragraph and text construction.
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WA Positive Behaviours - WAPBS
Creating, safe, orderly, inclusive, supportive and culturally responsive environments that enable students to fulfil their learning potential is a responsibility shared by all members of the public schooling system and each school community.
Positive student behaviour is essential to promote engagement in learning and to maximise the impact of classroom teaching.
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