Canley+Heights+PS

 **Team Members: ** Heidi Graetsch, Nola Gunthorpe and Milly Cheah
 * __Canley Heights PS __**
 * Project Coordinator/Facilitator:** Susan Langworthy


 * __Context statement __**

Canley Heights PS is a class 2 primary school with an enrolment of approximately 575 students. It is located in south western Sydney on the Cumberland Highway in a low/medium density residential area in the Fairfield local government area. Our families come from a wide socio-economic backgrounds. The school is supported by the Priority Schools Program (PSP) which targets schools in areas of low SES concentrations. Just on 90% of our students come from language backgrounds other than English and are supported by significant ESL and Community Language programs as well as Literacy and Numeracy initiatives such as Reading Recovery and the Language, Literacy and Learning program.

Data gathered from BST, NAPLAN and Best Start as well as school generated data shows that reading is not at the same level as the other strands of English. Comprehension teaching and learning has been identified as an area of need. It is hoped that involvement in the project will help us teach our teachers better ways to teach comprehension, thus improving student outcomes. The teachers on Year 3 have been selected as the project group.