• School identified that students saw learning as a passive activity.  Students believed that ‘good learners’ displayed sitting up straight, not talking and finishing work.
• Initiatives developed and implemented through the 2015-17 school planning cycle.
• Using project-based learning pedagogy in the classroom, increasing STEM integration across the curriculum by developing school processes and strategies to improve student agency in their learning.
• Stage 3 teachers and leadership team engaged in professional learning and developed a strategic plan for implementation across the school.

Stage 3 ‘lighthouse’ team of seven teachers and classes began this journey.

Student agency developed through:

• student goal setting,
• student led conferences,
• students given voice and choice in their learning and presentation of learning products
• self and peer assessment and learning conventions,
• sharing the learning process and learning product with the school community.

STEM integrated curriculum developed to build and apply students’ STEM knowledge and skills.
Project-based learning pedagogy used by teachers to develop contextually relevant learning experiences that focus on building students’ critical and creative thinking, communication and collaboration skills.
K-4 teachers engaged in professional learning led by school leadership team and Stage 3 teachers to prepare for 2017.

• All K-6 students are engaged in STEM integrated curriculum throughout the year.
• The school was selected as a Primary STEM Action School, to mentor and support primary schools in an integrated STEM curriculum, including delivering professional learning to teachers and leaders from other schools.
• Student agency developed K-6 with all 520 students setting learning goals and leading their own student led conferences.
• Students learn through project-based learning pedagogy, where they have voice and choice in their learning, engage in self and peer assessment, provide and use feedback to improve learning and share their learning with a public audience.

• The whole school continues to focus on developing student agency in their learning, through embedding processes throughout the school to ensure that all students are learning ‘how to learn’.
• STEM learning is a focus area with staff continuing to mentor new teachers to the school and staff from other schools.