Bonnyrigg+Heights+PS

Karen Mack- Facilitator
 * __Bonnyrigg Heights PS __**
 * Project Coordinator/Facilitator: **

Team Members- Year One Amanda Palmer Arti Krishna Angela Pecenicic Bonnyrigg Heights is a school located in the South West of Sydney. The school has an excellent reputation for teaching and learning and student welfare. The school serves a multicultural community with 91% of students coming from multicultural backgrounds. The predominant languages spoken at home are Vietnamese, Chinese, Serbian and Arabic. There are 39 other different languages spoken in the school community.
 * __Context statement __**

In response to the diversity of languages spoken at school the curriculum is very explicit, particularly in the areas of literacy and numeracy and as a result the school achieved very good results in the 2009 NAPLAN with Year 3 and 5 students scoring at or above state averages in reading, writing, spelling and overall literacy. The school management plan has targeted inferential comprehension as an area for training and development to further improve student performance by developing quality teaching and learning programs that would explicitly teach these skills. This would assist students to continue to achieve stage outcomes in literacy and deepen thier understanding of a variety of texts.

Best Start data from 2009 indicated that the majority of Kindergarten studets were able to infer meaning about a text and therefore we have targeted Year One as the grade for our project so that we can continue to provide quality teaching and learning strategies to deepen this understanding and develop skills that will assist students to comprehend complex texts throughout their schooling.