St Clair Public School

Strive to Achieve

Telephone02 9670 1966

Emailstclair-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Learning across the curriculum

Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning. In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.

Cross curriculum priorities

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures 
  • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia 
  • sustainability

General capabilities

  • critical and creative thinking 
  • ethical understanding 
  • information and communication technology capability 
  • intercultural understanding 
  • literacy 
  • numeracy 
  • personal and social capability

Other learning across the curriculum areas

  • civics and citizenship
  • difference and diversity
  • work and enterprise.

© NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012

The school asks parents to contribute towards the cost of online programs that support their child's learning at school and at home. Students are provided with personalised login user names and passwords for each of the programs that can be used at home as well as at school.

Mathletics

The program Mathletics is aligned to the NSW mathematics syllabus and caters for individual student learning and progress. Teachers use Mathletics at school and for homework to revise and reinforce the concepts taught.

Bug club

The program Bug Club is a levelled reading comprehension program that is fun and reinforces reading strategies learnt at school as well as providing an additional source of home reading at the appropriate level for their child.

Reading eggs

Reading Eggs and Reading Express is another levelled reading program that reinforces reading strategies and comprehension through a variety of fun activities and games. This is also an additional source for home reading that is at an appropriate level for their child.

Please download the program costs document (PDF 156KB) for the cost associated with these activities.