Learning at Weilmoringle
Weilmoringle Public School provides a warm, supportive learning environment in which every child is valued. The staff are committed to developing a strong educational foundation while building students’ self-confidence and social skills. In anticipation for boarding away from home to access secondary education, we aim for all students to build a great sense of pride in their learning spaces, actively contributing to the presentation of their classrooms. This sense of ownership extends to the school grounds, which reflect the shared pride and commitment of both students and the wider community.
Why choose us for your child’s learning?
Strong Foundations
We focus on the skills your child needs to succeed in school and beyond from start to finish. This helps them feel confident and prepared for the future.
Personalised, Inclusive Learning
Our teachers adjust how they deliver lessons to best suit your child’s needs, interests and learning pace. We aim to make sure every student feels confident and supported in their learning experience.
Our Learning Approach
Our school uses explicit teaching. This means we clearly tell students what they are learning, why it is important and how to do it step by step. Explicit teaching helps students understand new ideas by breaking them into smaller parts.
Learning at our school is student-centred, inclusive and practical. We are committed to equity and access. We support all learning styles and needs. Our teachers use proven teaching strategies and take part in ongoing professional development to stay up to date with best teaching practices.
Our learning approach includes:
- real-world learning - hands-on tasks, group work and exploring new ideas
- technology - to help students learn and build digital skills
- flexible teaching - the right support for each student, with a focus on wellbeing
- community connections - through excursions and local programs.
What Students Learn
At our school, we deliver a broad range of learning areas through the New South Wales curriculumopen_in_new, designed to support the needs and strengths of every student. We recognise that strong literacy and numeracy skills are essential foundations for lifelong learning and success. Combining basic life skills with critical and creative thinking, ethical understanding and technological capability, we aim to provide students with personal and social skills that will survive them into the future.
Our dedicated teachers use high-quality, evidence-based teaching strategies to engage students, build confidence, and support each learner in achieving their individual goals. Cross curriculum content including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, Australasian engagement, sustainability, and diversity further enrich our students depth of learning.
Creative and Performing Arts is a mandatory component of the NSW Curriculum for students from Kindergarten to Year 6.
Students can discover a variety of art forms through the study of dance, drama, music and visual arts. Each art form has its own unique discipline or concept, as well as a capacity to inspire and enrich lives. Students have the opportunity to learn new skills, and appreciate how to compose, listen, make and perform.
Students learn about the English language through written, spoken and visual texts of increasing complexity as they progress through their schooling. Developing an understanding of language constructs is central to how we communicate, and essential for intellectual, social and emotional growth.
It develops skills to enable students to experiment with ideas and expression, to become active, independent and lifelong learners, work with each other, and reflect on their learning. We aim for the study of English to develop a love of literature and learning within each student.
By studying mathematics, students develop fluency, understanding, problem-solving, reasoning and communication skills across various mathematic fields including:
- number and algebra
- measurement and geometry
- statistics and probability.
Helping Students Progress
We support every student’s academic progress by:
- checking their progress and giving clear and timely feedback
- setting learning goals with each student
- reporting on each student’s learning progress so parents and carers know how their child is doing in school
- providing targeted literacy and numeracy support in small groups
- making wellbeing part of everyday learning
- working with families to support learning at home and school
- helping students through transitions, like starting school or moving to a new stage of learning.
Learn more about additional learning support at our school.
Distance Education
The New South Wales Department of Education provides distance education to students living in geographically isolated areas who are unable to attend school on a regular basis. There are 11 distance education schools in NSW, including a school for specific purpose and a specialist language high school.
Unlike homeschooling, the school and teacher are responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating student learning in Distance Education programs. Whilst not a DE school, Weilmoringle Public School has provided students a facility for social learning in the past.
For more information about eligibility and provision of distance education can be provided by your child’s local school or by contacting the Rural and Distance Education Office can at rde@det.nsw.edu.auopen_in_new.
Distance Education Preschool
Weilmoringle Public School facilitates the state-wide provision of educational programs and support for geographically isolated children the year before they start Kindergarten. NSW Distance Education Preschool operates as a part of the ‘Outback 2 Ocean Preschool (O2O)’ program, with dedicated staff located at School of the Air Broken Hill and Dubbo School of Distance Education. Eligibility for distance education preschool is determined by the Enrolment in distance education procedures.open_in_new
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