English

Our focus is on developing literacy skills so that your child can express themselves clearly and effectively in written and spoken forms.

Under the Western Australian Curriculum, by studying English, your child has the opportunity to:

• learn to listen, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose;
• appreciate, enjoy and use the English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue;
• understand how Standard Australian English works in its spoken and written forms and in combination with non-linguistic forms of communication to create meaning; and
• develop interest and skills in inquiring into the aesthetic aspects of texts and develop an informed appreciation of literature.

At Maylands Peninsula Primary School, we have adopted three whole school programs to assist in the development of literacy skills- The Promoting Literacy Development program as part of a consistent approach to the teaching of spelling, the online Reading Eggs/Eggspress program for the consolidation of reading skills and the Maylands Peninsula Primary School Writing Plan, which is based on Pie Corbett's Talk 4 Writing program, to assist students with the development of writing skills.