Preshil The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School

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The program consists of a balance of collaborative projects, small-group teacher-led experiences, and free play throughout the daily routine, focusing on smooth transitions. Children are encouraged to learn by observing, questioning, discussing, wondering, doing, making, collaborating, and expressing their thinking in ways that reflect their individuality, strengths, and creativity. A love of books, stories, role-play, reading, and writing are cultivated and form the basis of Literacy, Numeracy, and Science. Specialist Philosophy, Art, Music, French, and Dance teachers work with the children each week alongside the core program.

Preshil's progressive approach draws from Montessori and Froebel, from Steiner and Reggio Emilia, each one offering abundant and ambitious elements to build on. But Preshil is not locked into a static, dogmatic approach shaped for a different place and time. We also draw on the work of Sir Kenneth Robinson and John Hattie.

Our approach has much in common with the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP), based on a strong commitment to conceptual and holistic learning and an inquiry approach. More than half of Preshil's Arlington teachers have undertaken PYP training. This alignment with the International Baccalaureate's values and pedagogy and a desire to build on it first motivated the School's adoption of the MYP at the Secondary School.

At Arlington, we embrace exciting new technologies but discriminately. Our exceptional teachers collect and use many data styles to plan their teaching and refine their understanding of the learning progress. As a team, we read, discuss, plan, and collaborate to focus on each child's progress.

The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) provides a framework of academic challenge for the Australian National Curriculum. The MYP encourages students to become critical and reflective thinkers, identifying and making connections between traditional subjects and the real world. Students develop a depth of knowledge and balance through the study of eight subjects fields:

Additional subjects and the real world. Students develop a depth of knowledge and balance through the study of eight subjects fields:

• Arts
• Individuals and Societies
• Language and Literature
• Language Acquisition
• Mathematics
• Physical and Health Education
• Sciences
• Design
• Personal Projects

Preshil's community of learners is challenged to set goals that support them to reach their academic potential. The IB learner profile emphasizes the whole person's development, actively cultivating our students' attributes as inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, courageous, balanced, and reflective, to become global citizens with an awareness of their common humanity.

SECONDARY CAMPUS 12—26 Sackville Street Kew, Victoria Australia 3101 Telephone: +61 3 9817 6135 Fax: +61 3 9816 7943 Email: [email protected]

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