ATTENTION NEW FAMILIES 2025
STRUCTURED LITERACY
Since the beginning of 2024, our school - along with many others - has joined the Ballarat Diocese Flare Primary Literacy Strategy. As a part of our ongoing improvement strategy in Literacy instruction we are participating in an award-winning research partnership with La Trobe University.
The Sciences of Reading and Learning tell us that a systematic, explicit approach to the teaching of the alphabetic code and the grammatical rules that underpin written English offers our students the best chance at becoming confidently literate. The approach we are strategically adopting is called Structured Literacy, which is the approach endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association, the International Literacy Association and the Australian National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy.
Our whole staff group has been working closely with the Structured Literacy team from the Catholic Education Office, and we will continue over the next few years, to learn more about the principles, elements and characteristics of a Structured Literacy approach. This is a substantial change that will take time. However, we are assured by the results achieved in the pilot schools and the endorsement of the La Trobe University researchers.
Please read the attached letter in regards to the collection of data for the research project. If you do not wish your child/children’s data to be used for the study, you may opt out by collecting a hard copy form from the office and signing it.