Welcome to Granville East
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Our Vision
Granville East Public School (GEPS) leads a dynamic and innovative community, characterised by powerful partnerships, quality learning, inclusivity and excellence. The school inspires purposeful, holistic and future focused teaching and learning that engages students in their lives and their world. GEPS empowers creative and critical thinkers who experience enjoyment
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Introduction
We have developed this framework as a blueprint for the pedagogy that will enable us to achieve our vision. We believe that the learning progress of every student should be our priority; and that every student deserves to make at least a year’s progress in every calendar year.
Developing high-level skills in literacy and numeracy is a fundamental requirement for our students, but we also believe in a broad curriculum that prepares students for life. In the words of Hattie: What is the learning that we aim to impact on? The love of learning, involving students to stay in the learning and seeing the ways in which students can improve their healthy sense of being, respect for self, and respect for others as well as enhancing achievement (the whole child). We believe that to impact on the learning of our students we must take action in the “instructional core” (City, Elmore, Fiarman and Teitel). This highlights the fact that it is the relationship between teachers, students and the content taught, not the qualities of anyone of them by themselves, that determines learning. This framework is about the pedagogy that we need for our students at GEPS. As such it encompasses the performance of teaching together with the theories, beliefs, policies and controversies that inform and shape it (Siraj & Taggart). Research consistently shows that the pedagogy that teachers use makes a significant difference to student learning outcomes (Siraj & Taggart; Hattie; Wiliam). We hope that all teachers at our school will make regular use of our Powerful Learning Framework and use it as a vehicle for reflection, professional discussion and to inspire further learning. Download PL Framework
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Our Goal
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