Curriculum and Learning Areas

Planning and Delivering Curriculum Content

Curriculum delivery and planning for learners at Albany Primary School should be flexible, agile and allow for student input and ownership. Wherever possible, students should be afforded the opportunity to learn through a passion based lens, exploring knowledge and methods of sharing that focus on audience and student led outcomes. Within core curriculum areas, teachers should show progression of learning with a clarity around learning intentions from global down to local objectives. Success criteria should, where possible, be collaboratively constructed.

“Effective planning supports all students to access rich and broad learning opportunities across the learning areas of the New Zealand Curriculum. Such planning recognises different ways to support student achievement. Effective teaching and learning is based on teacher belief that the core of teaching and learning is the same, regardless of whether a student has a disability or requires additional support.

Effective teachers:

• ensure that every student can access learning, if necessary drawing on specialist support to achieve this

• ensure that learning opportunities connect with students’ prior knowledge and experience

• ensure that every student has multiple opportunities to interact with others and with a variety of material

• provide opportunities for students to express themselves in a range of ways

• provide opportunities for students to show what they know and are learning.”

(Retrieved 2021 TKI/NZ curriculum)