Richmond Hill State School is a learning community,
focused on preparing students for life in a changing world. Richmond Hill State
School’s curriculum is dynamic, innovative and focused on learning for life. We
have a reading culture within the school and push the need for all students to
read every day both at school and home. Students are expected to read daily
with an emphasis on comprehension in reading time. We believe reading is the
key to student academic success.
Richmond Hill State School
implements the Australian Curriculum. Key Learning Areas
are taught as pure disciplines with opportunities to integrate across
the learning areas. All students study English, Maths, Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, Music, Dance, The Visual and or Media Arts, Design & Technologies and
Health and Physical Education. Students in Years 5 &6 have the
opportunities to study Japanese as their Language Other Than English (LOTE).
Literacy
is taught in all subject areas. Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) are integrated within unit and lesson plans.
Opportunities to participate
in various extra-curricula activities are provided eg instrumental program,
representative sports, musical events and academic competitions.
Our
school is proud to provide quality educational programs in Swimming, Physical
Education, Instrumental Music, Choir, Library, Art and Craft,
Student Support and Sport.
Regular and comprehensive reporting is an important part of our
core business at Richmond Hill State School. We are committed to
providing parents and the community with readily interpretable reports on
student progress. A variety of formal and informal modes of reporting are
used to keep students, parents and the wider community informed on all aspects
of student achievements. Teachers report on what has been learned and how well
it has been learned using state-wide A-E standards.
To
strengthen consistency of teacher judgment and comparability of reported
results, our teachers are required to engage in moderation processes at the end
of each Semester using the Australian Curriculum (AC) Achievement standards and QCARF standards.
Formal
reports are issued to parents twice a year, at the end of each Semester. They
are guided by the ACand QCARF Standards and use the Education Queensland
reporting formats. These reports provide a summary of student progress in a
range of academic and non-academic aspects
of schooling. All teachers report orally to parents twice yearly (Term 1 and 3)
to inform, through conversations and data interrogation, about their child’s
progress.
Richie will continue to maintain other assessment tasks including the National
Grade 3 & 5 NAPLAN Tests.
View more information about the Australian Curriculum, parents can view the ‘Parents’ section of the Australian Curriculum website.
Homework is valued as reinforcement of classroom learning with a school wide emphasis on reading daily. It is also part of school expectations for our our students to be engaged in Gotcha events at the end of each Term.