Knowledge Rich

At Lysterfield Primary School, we aim to develop students who are curious about the world around them and both confident and creative in the application of their knowledge and skills. In a rapidly evolving world, we view the attainment of knowledge as pivotal to their future success. To achieve this, the school provides sequential and targeted teaching and learning programs. 

At LPS we are committed to offering a thorough, sequential and comprehensive curriculum for our students based on the Victorian Curriculum 2.0. The Victorian Curriculum 2.0 is designed as a continuum of learning that is specifically focussed on individual student learning growth. All students have access to a curriculum program that comprehensively addresses the standards and capabilities of the Victorian Curriculum 2.0.

At LPS, our commitment to key learning areas includes daily explicit instruction, review and application in English and Mathematics.  We place a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy, as we believe this is an essential pathway to success.

Core Knowledge learning exposes students to rich knowledge and vocabulary and ensures students are actively engaged in their own learning. 

Our Knowledge Rich lessons are ‘KNOWLEDGE RICH AND INSTRUCTIONALLY BULLETPROOF’. The key features of our Core Knowledge learning are:

• Developing student expertise through Explicit Direct Instructional techniques

• The modelling and facilitation of text comprehension and analysis

• Explicit vocabulary instruction

• Building depth and breadth of content/knowledge

• Embedding of history, geography, and civics knowledge and skills

• Explicitly linking to writing instruction

The acquisition of knowledge is key in helping students make sense of the world around them and involve themselves in the learning process.  Children learn best when they experience explicit teaching, ask questions, review learning, create new knowledge, discuss their discoveries and solutions and reflect on new learning.  

With this as our premise, staff design learning units based on the whole school scope and sequence, ensuring there is a progression of learning connections throughout their schooling and across subject areas.

Our students complete multiple Core Knowledge units per year that address the science, health and humanities learning areas of the curriculum. These include Science, Health, History, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, and Economics & Business.  We also incorporate the capabilities of the Victorian Curriculum into the design of these learning opportunities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical, Intercultural and Personal and Social.

These units are implemented across the whole school, with a clear progression of knowledge. We believe the key to the application of knowledge and skills, is the explicit teaching of them.