St Peter Chanel School is a local leader in providing innovative and engaging literacy and numeracy. Our teachers are specifically trained in these two breakthrough educational programmes.

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EVIDENCE-BASED LITERACY TEACHING

The Better Start Literacy Approach, is an integrated classroom literacy approach for Year 0/1 classrooms to support children’s early reading, writing and oral language success. It incorporates vocabulary development using quality children’s story books, structured teaching of critical phonological awareness skills and letter-sound knowledge through fun, game-based activities, activities making explicit links to the reading and spelling context, and structured small group reading sessions using the new Ready to Read – Phonics Plus early readers series. The Better Start Literacy Approach follows a phonics scope and sequence that is used in the class and small group reading teaching.

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Click on the image to the right to visit the BSLA website.

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NUMICON

St Peter Chanel School is launching itself into Numicon in 2022. Numicon is an award-winning approach to numeracy that incorporates communication, exploring relationships and generalsing. Year 1 & 2 teacher, Whaea Rachel Hyslop, is our school's learning leader in this programme.

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Numicon encourages conversation, hands-on and learning through play, problem-solving and inquiry learning and is based on the CPA Approach and the studies of Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner. 

 

Click on the image to the right to visit the Numicon website.