Literacy Focus Group

Late in 2011, a group of teachers interested in continued improvement of Literacy at RPS decided to meet regularly to examine current practice and look further afield to see what other schools were doing.

They took a close look at current Accelerated Literacy (AL) Pedagogy, using a TfEL lens (Teaching for Effective Learning) which highlighted how thorough the AL pegagogy is.

They also decided to design a RPS Literacy Statement, to present all of the Literacy practices at Renmark in one document. 
This took many weeks of investigation and includes ideas from the  Literacy Secretariat Literacy Improvement Model and the Australian Curriculum.  It was finally presented to staff in mid Ter One, who decided to adopt the statement at our school. (See picture below)

RPS Literacy Statement

Literacy Focus Group of the LFG, also designed a Genre Map for 2012, as our existing map was dated and did not cater for current approaches and needs.  See picture below

2012 RPS Genre Map