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LEARNING STRA TEGIC PL ANS - LEARNING

STRATEGIC PLANS - LEARNING

LEARNING

Hale School is committed to maintaining and enhancing its tradition of academic excellence and providing a broad and
progressive range of learning experiences so that all students have the opportunity to achieve their personal best.
We aspire to:
• Provide a positive academic culture that champions personal excellence in learning for all students.
• Provide individual opportunity to succeed through breadth and diversity of learning at school, leading to appreciation,
readiness and capacity for lifelong learning.
• Maintain and promote a culture that esteems our teachers’ mastery of content and practice, and their positive
relationships with students, which is the foundation of good learning.
• Develop in all students the capacity to experience academic wellbeing.
• Enhance parent engagement with the School in ways to support boys’ learning.

INTEGRATED LEARNING:
THE POWER OF

NATURAL CONNECTIONS

There is much discussion broadly in the world of experiences where concepts, understandings and skills
education about developing and equipping learners from stand-alone subjects have provided a valuable
with 21st Century capabilities. Ensuring our boys pathway to opening up learning in other areas.
have the day-to-day skills to navigate life in an
increasingly globally connected world and ever- Pre-Primary: The power of tea parties
changing environment is crucial. Whilst capabilities The excitement of learning thrived amongst our Pre-
such as communication, creativity, problem solving Primary boys as their skills as scientists, designers, writers
and collaboration have always had a place in boys’ and presenters were blended to enable them to craft a
education, such capabilities take on a new meaning and hat suitable for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Prior to the
relevance in today’s classroom.
design process the boys participated in various hands-on
In the Junior School, we acknowledge that building and experiments to discover and test the appropriateness of
developing such skills does not fit neatly into learning
experiences solely organised by specific learning areas. certain materials suitable for wearing outdoors. In the
Exposing boys to integrated ways of learning that are not design phase they sketched prototypes and annotated
self-contained or fixed, but rather are interconnected, is their design elements and requirements. As critical
vital. Our teachers are constantly seeking opportunities thinkers they refined, reflected and altered their design
that allow for authentic connections that enable individual to ensure durability. Oral language skills were developed
learning area perspectives to be merged, to as they shared their plans, justified their choice of design
enhance student engagement whilst also elements, and revealed their marvellous creations to
deepening understanding of complex parents and friends during the Open Classroom afternoon.
ideas, topics or problems.
Along the way, the boys developed their understandings
In the Junior School we love to about elements of the weather, appropriate units of
be creative with learning by
making the most of the natural measurement and classic literature such as Alice in
connections that exist between Wonderland. This learning was celebrated when the Pre-
learning areas. Below are some Primary boys enjoyed their Mad Hatter’s Tea Party where
recent examples of learning the colour and joy of the bespoke hats were on full display.

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