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Curriculum

The curriculum at Carlton Primary School follows the guidelines set by the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, including literacy, numeracy, physical education, science, information technology and art programs. The school grounds include plenty of space for outdoor activities, as well as significant garden space where the children are able to spend time learning about the environment. The school building is also well equipped with a computer lab housing 25 computers, and a well resourced art room.

Carlton Primary also has an extensive extended curriculum.

Extended Curriculum includes:

Music

A singing teacher from the Song Room comes to the school once a week and works with each grade. Along with their weekly singing lessons the children also have regular opportunities to perform the wonderful pieces they have worked on throughout the year.

Swimming

Carlton Primary is lucky to be located a five minute walk from the Carlton Baths community Centre where an intensive swimming program is run twice a year. This provides the school the opportunity to offer the children to learn a valuable skill that will be with them for life.

Art

Carlton Primary has a rich art program, with all children accessing one hour of art class per week.

Environmental Education

Through the environmental education programme the students learn about plants and animals, through real life, practical application through the exploration and development of biodiversity – both within the school grounds and out into the wider community.

The aim of this specialist subject is to integrate environmental education into a holistic programme with measurable environmental, economic, educational and social outcomes. The programme implements improvements in the school's management of resources and physical environment (including energy, waste, water, biodiversity, landscape design, products and materials) and integrates this approach into the existing curriculum and daily running of the school. The programme is action based and involves the whole school community in the sustainable management of the school. For more information see the Environmental Education section of this site.

Reading Recovery

CPS has a Reading Recovery teacher dedicated to helping children with their reading and writing skills in an intensive, one on one environment.

The Reading Recovery program supports grade one children whose literacy skills are slow to develop, it has been operating for over 20 years and has shown to be a great model for successfully bringing children’s reading and writing skills up to the same level as their peers. The RR teacher works daily with the children on a program individually designed according to their needs. For more information about the Reading Recovery program you can follow this link.

Literacy intervention

Carlton Primary has two teachers who work together on a literacy intervention program to complement the work being done in the classroom. Classroom teachers refer children who need some extra literacy support, and the sessions are either one on one, or in small groups.

Language Program

Carlton Primary School employs a Speech Pathologist and a Language Aide to work with children in assisting with the development of language and speech.

The speech pathologist assesses children with special language needs and devises specific programs to help build their skills. The language aide then facilitates the implementation of these programs with children, in both one-on-one and group settings.

The Language Program aims at building language skills through reading and comprehension, receptive learning, and grammar. These learning areas are supported in therapy sessions by corresponding language games, picture material from the Boardmaker Program, and Cued Articulation (visual hand cues), to create a varied, interactive and fun approach to language.

Clubs

Every Wednesday the students participate in our clubs programme. We have had a range of clubs including knitting, gardening, jewellery making, weaving, cooking, reading, sewing and origami. The students choose the club they would like to participate in and are then placed in multi-age groupings. We find the clubs to be a valuable learning experience for the students as they get to interact with students of varying ages and teachers other than their usual class or specialist teacher. The students look forward to participating in their chosen club each week.