ENHANCING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH

ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIVERSE LEARNING

COMMUNITY

Wiley Park Public School

OUR SCHOOL CONTEXT

• Wiley Park Public School is a large multi-cultural school located in South-Western Sydney.

• 24 classes including 3 support classes.

• 45 teaching staff including 3.6 ESL positions and 4 Community Language Teachers.

School Context

Student Population

Correct as of 04/04/2012

Whole School Population: 541 students LBOTE Population: 528 students

LBOTE %: 97.78%ESB Population (No LBOTE): 12 studentsNew Arrivals Students: 12 students

Refugees: 24 studentsMobility rate: 18.6%

7 most popular home languages spoken by students at WPPS• Arabic 36%• English as 1st lang (may have

LBOTE background) 13%• Vietnamese 9%• Bengali 9%• Samoan 7%• Urdu 6%• Cook Island Maori 4%• Indonesian 3% • (Pacific Island 13.3% in total)

43 languages spoken at WPPS(Varieties of African and Burmese Languages are included in ‘African Languages’ and ‘Burmese Languages’)

OUR LITERACY JOURNEY

Whole School Plan - Improved Literacy Skills of Students

(reading focus)

Engaging Our Parent

Community

Engaging Our Students

Engaging Our Teachers

ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS – LITERACY

•Demonstrations and in-class modelling

Focus On Reading (FoR)

•Programming and Assessment

•Workshops and peer mentoring

Programming and assessment

•Whole school approach

•Workshops

•Cross KLA project team

Differentiation

•Best Start Regional Consultants

Best Start K-2

•Professional Development for Kindergarten Staff

•L3 Consultants

Language, Learning and Literacy (L3)

•Professional Learning

•Programming

New English Curriculum

ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS – NUMERACY & ICT

•Professional Learning

•Programming and assessment tool

Numeracy Continuum

•Collaboratively Planning

Working Mathematically

•Integrate ICT

ICT and the Quality Framework

•Skills audit survey

•Targeted 3 ability groups

•Professional Development

Mentoring

ENGAGING OUR TEACHERS - SUPPORT

•Implemented K-6

•Joint programming and assessment

Innovative Teaching and Learning Pods

•SMART teacher goals

•Reviewed annually by supervisors

•Incorporates the National Standards and School Plan

Teacher Professional Learning TPL

•Funded by National Partnerships NP

•Professional Learning

•Demonstration lessons

•K-1 classes, Special Unit and Targeted Students

Occupational and Speech Therapy

•Stage Leader Observations and feedback

•Support throughout Accreditation process

Mentoring for New Scheme Teachers

ENGAGING OUR STUDENTS – PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES

Homework Centre

Books in Homes

Reading Eggs and

Mathletics

iPads for each IO class to

support ILP’s Bounce Back

Refugee and Beginning School Well Kindergarten

Project

Free Vision Screening

Active After School

Learning Support Team

LST

Individual Learning Plans ILPs

Creative and Preforming Arts CAPA

Public Schools Sports

Association PSSAK-6 Literacy

Competitions

Attendance

Dedicated Attendance Officer (AP)

Regular Home School Liaison Officer (HSLO)

auditing class rolls

Restructuring school

intervention process

Identifying ‘at risk’

students

Supporting families in crisis at a school and community

level through our

various external partners

Community Partners & Programs

SaCC

Canterbury Bankstown

Migrant R

esource Centre

STARS Volunteers

TAFE

Catholic Care

Wiley Park Public School

PARENT PARTICIPATION FRAMEWORK

Parent as learn-ing sup-port

Parent as fam-ily and social skills mentor

Parent as member of the school com-munity

Parent as member of the wider community

PARENT AS LEARNING SUPPORT

Numeracy and literacyworkshops for parentsin helping their childrenwith learning at home.

Parent as Learning Support

Leapfrogs transition to

Kinder program

Parent helpers in Support

unit classrooms

Regular information sessions (eg NAPLAN with CIO Fatima Amr)

Meet the teacher

Parent teacher interviews

Term Family Planner

Cyber Bullying sesions

Parent as family and social skills

mentor

Good Beginnings pre-school Playgroup

Good Beginnings pre-school Playgroup

Beginning School Well

Refugee pre-school program

Corner café and Circle of Security programs

facilitated by Catholic Care with school counsellor

sessions on dealing with domestic issues

Canterbury Family Support Agency

interventions

First Aid Courses

PARENT AS MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITYo Community

o consultation

o Parent café

o Parent cookery interest group

o Parent lunch and info session on school services for targeted school community groups e.g. Pacific Island community

o Cultural Exchange Program (The Oaks)

o SLSO Refugee

o Parents & Citizens Association

PARENT SOCIAL EXCURSIONS

Parent Excursion to Fish Market with CLOs.

Biggest Morning Tea with Robert Furolo.

Parent Excursion to Auburn Botanical Garden.

MULTICULTURAL DAY

Wiley Park Public School holds a Multicultural Day every year to celebrate their diversity through dancing, their cultural stories and food.

Parent as member of the

Wider Community

TAFE computer and English classes with

Free Child Care

Good Neighbour Program supported

by Schools as Community (SAC)

Other Sac programs Playgroups, Sewing

Circles, Good Beginnings

A STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS