English at Coatesville School
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The New Zealand Curriculum describes English as learning the language, learning through the language, and learning about the language and that by engaging with text-based activities, students become increasingly skilled and sophisticated speakers and listeners, writers and readers, presenters and viewers. This is what drives our teaching and learning at Coatesville School.
The ability to communicate and respond effectively is fundamental to success across the curricula and underpins success in all areas of life. As effective communicators, students will make meaning of ideas or information they receive and create meaning for themselves or others.
To ensure that all children receive high quality and equitable learning, our teachers implement programmes that exemplify best practice as is articulated in the New Zealand National Standards and supporting documents, and specifically according to the Coatesville Programme Guidelines and Learning Progressions.
As students’ take greater responsibility for their own learning, so will their understanding of the literacy processes, and their role in achieving success, develop.
The parent and school partnership is vital for the progress of our students and is inclusive of home literacy programmes as well as assistance with classroom and wider school initiatives like the Rainbow Reading and STEPS programmes.
Our classroom environments and programmes reflect New Zealand’s bi-cultural heritage and our modern multi-culturalism, and teachers select from content so that students are able to consider their understanding of the world now and for the future.
Teachers at Coatesville School are passionate about providing a range of exciting opportunities across the curriculum, enabling our students to develop their English skills, showcasing their strengths and maximising their potential.
The ability to communicate and respond effectively is fundamental to success across the curricula and underpins success in all areas of life. As effective communicators, students will make meaning of ideas or information they receive and create meaning for themselves or others.
To ensure that all children receive high quality and equitable learning, our teachers implement programmes that exemplify best practice as is articulated in the New Zealand National Standards and supporting documents, and specifically according to the Coatesville Programme Guidelines and Learning Progressions.
As students’ take greater responsibility for their own learning, so will their understanding of the literacy processes, and their role in achieving success, develop.
The parent and school partnership is vital for the progress of our students and is inclusive of home literacy programmes as well as assistance with classroom and wider school initiatives like the Rainbow Reading and STEPS programmes.
Our classroom environments and programmes reflect New Zealand’s bi-cultural heritage and our modern multi-culturalism, and teachers select from content so that students are able to consider their understanding of the world now and for the future.
Teachers at Coatesville School are passionate about providing a range of exciting opportunities across the curriculum, enabling our students to develop their English skills, showcasing their strengths and maximising their potential.
National Standards and Literacy Progressions
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Teachers' planning, teaching and assessing are guided by two documents: The Reading and Writing Standards and the Literacy Progressions, enabling students to meet the demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
New Zealand schools also have the scope and authority they need to design and shape their curriculum so that teaching and learning is meaningful and beneficial to their particular communities of students. To this end Coatesville School teachers have implemented three key areas for teaching and learning in literacy: |
Learning the Code: letter/sound and high frequency word knowledge
Making and creating meaning : understanding vocabulary and the structure of language
Thinking critically: examining text during reading and writing, and responding to text after reading
Making and creating meaning : understanding vocabulary and the structure of language
Thinking critically: examining text during reading and writing, and responding to text after reading