Curriculum Framework
The school’s curriculum follows the recommendations of the Department of Education and Training (or equivalent body) that manages education policies, curriculum frameworks, assessment, and reporting. In New South Wales (NSW) this is the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Our schools are focused on quality teaching and learning practices that create inclusive and supportive learning environments that include:
- Expert teaching teams
- Engaging curriculum
- Differentiated learning
- Personalised learning plans
- Flexible scheduling
- The First Framework & 8 Ways Pedagogy
- Social and emotional learning
- Pathways
Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
First Nations perspectives are embedded across the curriculum to ensure teaching and learning is culturally responsive, locally relevant, and grounded in respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, and knowledge systems. This approach is informed by frameworks that support authentic engagement with local communities and promote relational, place-connected, and narrative-driven pedagogies.
These perspectives are not an ‘add on’ but are woven through the curriculum to meaningfully to support identity, connection, and learning for all young people.
- Australian Curriculum V9: Cross-Curriculum Priority, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
- The FIRST Framework: (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2024) informs and supports our engagement with local First Nations communities, so that our teaching and learning program is suited to local contexts, cultural identities, future aspirations and is engaging for young people, while aligning with a relational and culturally responsive pedagogy.
- 8-Ways of Aboriginal Learning: Aboriginal Pedagogy Framework is expressed as eight interconnected pedagogies involving narrative-driven learning, visualised learning processes, hands-on/reflective techniques, use of symbols/metaphors, land-based learning, indirect/synergistic logic, modelled/scaffolded genre mastery and connectedness to community. But these can change in different settings.
Our school, while registered with New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA), we are not currently accredited to offer the Record of School Achievement (RoSA) credential.