The Grade One and Two area consists of five classrooms that are connected by a large shared area to promote independent learning.

Our internal amphitheater, known as The Cave, is a gathering area where all classes can gather together or work independently in an open space.

The teaching staff plan collaboratively with our Reading Recovery trained teacher, Learning Support Officer and Literacy Support staff to provide support in English. Teaching staff plan together to provide purposeful and consistent education for all students in all curriculum areas.

Reading Recovery Program

Dr. Marie Clay, a New Zealand educator, developed Reading Recovery as a short term intervention for children who have the lowest achievement in literacy learning after one year of school.

We have a trained Reading Recovery specialist teacher working with our Grade 1/2 team.  

Children on the Reading Recovery Program meet daily with the Reading Recovery teacher for a thirty minute lesson. During this time, the children develop effective reading and writing strategies in order to work within an average range of classroom performance. The length of time a child is on the Reading Recovery Program is between 12 to 20 weeks.