Teaching & Learning
For students be able to adapt, thrive, share communal values and contribute successfully in society, our school vision aims to meet the challenge of life in a rapidly changing global environment. This means teaching – learning relationships need to be the foundations for engagement, skills, understandings and successful practices that support appropriate outcomes for students and adults in a world where the concept of schooling is a global experience being rapidly shaped by technology and new paradigms for learning.
Beaumaris is well placed to take up this challenge. Its current realignment, a developed whole school culture and pedagogical directions enable exploring ways of enhancing transitional development through the Curriculum Framework. Emphasis is on preparing students for a less predictable future, where capabilities for adaptability, problem solving, creativity, enterprise and collaboration are regarded as essential, or as Peter Ellyard suggests, “The ability to thrive – or Thrivability – in an unknown world.”
Such a vision is consistent with the current Outcome Standards Education focus. It further explores what schooling and learning might be like in the next decade. It requires a framework that supports teachers in moving students to those capabilities, within the Curriculum Framework. This is our journey, building on past plans and successful practices.
In developing the framework, the ‘School Strategic Plan’ is underpinned by a foundation that links transition through Sub Schools and on to secondary and future education. This foundation includes:
- Lifelong learning competencies and strategies
- Strategies from and understandings about “middle schooling culture”
- Creativity & well being
- Values and ethics
- Productive Pedagogy
- Whole school transitional development of supporting core skills, learning, understandings, knowledge and practices
- Technology as a tool and medium that binds the foundation for learning and the ‘knowledge society’
- Organisation & management
We at Beaumaris Primary School are committed to creating a safe, enriched and challenging educational environment which supports and promotes the intellectual, social, emotional, creative, spiritual and physical growth and development of each child. We want children to strive for individual excellence and to prepare for not only a life of work, but also a life of worth. At Beaumaris we are a community of lifelong learners where the unique abilities and talents of each person is valued and nurtured.