Learning

“Students in the 21st century are faced with the challenge of learning about an interconnected world where knowledge is constantly developing. The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Primary Years Programme prepares students to be active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.”

Our programs align with the IB Mission Statement:

“The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.”

For further information, please visit the IBO Website.

Literacy Support

Each year, students in year 1 who are having difficulty learning to read and write, are selected for a series of Literacy Intervention sessions. The Literacy Intervention enables children to be given small group oral language support to become active and independent readers and writers, better able to join in the daily literacy activities of the classroom. One of the key ways in which students are selected is through our early assessment and data collection which is shared within our collaborative planning times as Junior class teachers and shared with our Literacy Intervention Support Leader.

BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE!
BIENVENUE À LA PAGE DE FRANÇAIS de Kunyung!

At Kunyung, all students have the opportunity to learn French, where they discover what it means to be French and its culture. Kunyung Primary School strives to deliver authentic and meaningful language learning experiences, engaging in the culture embedded within a language.

We aim to inspire an interest in the French speaking culture, people and places, providing skills that will endure and encourage our students to continue with a lifelong love for learning languages and respect for other cultures. Learning a language can enrich personal development and facilitate international mindedness.

Madame Montana is our LOTE teacher and she is a native French speaker from Paris. She is also a qualified LOTE (French) teacher.

Students, at Kunyung are encouraged to participate in French through speaking, listening, singing, writing, reading and using audio-visual resources. French is taught once a week in 40 minutes sessions from Preps to Grade 6.

Sessions follow our Instructional Model where students are given opportunities to use French language in conversations, explore French language concepts based on the students’ own passions and interests as they work through a guided continuum acording to their own point of need atany given time.

The physical education program includes:

• Formal weekly physical education classes
• Annual intensive swimming programs in an indoor heated pool.
• School camps (Middles & Seniors)
• House Sport Carnivals
• Interschool Sport which provides students with the opportunity to represent Kunyung Primary School at District through to State level
• Strong involvement in community initiatives such as The Premier’s Active April & Walk Safely to School Day.

Kunyung Primary promotes healthy, active lifestyles in an effort to contribute to the future good health and wellbeing of our students and therefore our society.

The impact of our amazing Visual Arts program is clearly evident upon entering our grounds and permeates throughout the school. Our visual arts teachers, who are artists in their own right, share their passion and talents with our students.

Students are involved in creative processes that encourage the development and expression of ideas and skills using Visual Arts. Drawing on imagination and innovation, students resolve problems which are inherent in art projects. They consider the elements of art and design: line, shape, form, colour, texture and value, within their own creations and when analysing artworks made by others. The historical and contemporary role of visual arts across diverse cultures is studied to assist students in developing the skills to appreciate and reflect on varied works of art including their own, developing deeper understandings of the elements and principles of art and design in the world around them.

At the Senior level of the school, students are involved in a Teaching Artistic Behaviours (TAB) program, enabling them to develop Studio Habits of Mind in a choice-based curriculum. This empowers them to explore a wider range of materials, skills and techniques to develop the confidence to express themselves more personally through Visual Arts.

Students can participate in lunchtime Art Clubs and all have the opportunity to be involved in exhibitions, competitions and projects both locally and globally.

At Kunyung Primary School, we put the wellbeing of our students first by incorporating opportunities for Social and Emotional Learning into our programs. We have a behaviour support program that is consistent across our whole school. Each classroom and specialist area develop, with the students, their expectations through classroom agreements. We provide students with the opportunity to make better choices and ensures they are equipped with the skills for lifelong learning.

Students have opportunities to practise their social and emotional learning in safe classroom environments, where we have created a culture of celebrating efforts and encouraging students to demonstrate their Growth Mindset across all areas of the curriculum. A recent focus has been on enhancing students engagement through regular practise of mindfulness through mindful colouring, meditation, manipulating different materials and resources that vary from level to level.

Our Wellbeing Program involves students, parents, school staff and support agencies in developing Individual Learning Plans that target specific academic, behavioural and social needs for students. Parents are kept informed of student progress and work in collaboration with the school to ensure student learning is maximised. Staff members work collaboratively to ensure that the learning journey of each student is smooth, logical and seamless. Leadership and teachers work collaboratively to continue to use data to inform of individual needs to maximise potential.

Kunyung Primary School uses the Compass Platform as the tool to communicate with parents including:
– excursion notifications
– distribution of our weekly newsletter
– upcoming events through the yearly calendar
– interview bookings, etc

Compass also enables parents to communicate efficiently with the school for a variety of reasons: absence reasons, online payments, parent-teacher interviews, semester reporting, wellbeing and behaviour management communications, etc.