🎶Twelve Days of Rivergums 2022 🎶🎅 On the eleventh day we celebrate our partnership with Fogarty EDvance. Aligning strategic planning with our school vision has ensured transparency for staff and community.

Our before school enrichment program, Wise with Words, was off to a great start this morning with our Year 1 and upper primary students focusing on phonemic awareness activities and reading. Well done to everyone for their high level of engagement!

Introducing the Rivergums Review, a revamped staff and community newsletter with a focus on teaching and learning. Issue 1 features Tom Sherrington Oliver Lovell Teach Well Pam Kastner

Year 3 students presented morphology at our latest assembly. They exemplified the vocabulary morpheme, base, affix and how to build words using the matrix. Morphology is in full swing at Rivergums!

Our Music Specialist has been inspired by the work of Tim Rasinski and shared with staff how she uses repeated reading to make connections between literacy and lyrics. At our recent staff meeting Emma discussed the language of the national anthem.

Listening to Reid Smith with Brendan Lee makes us so proud of the part Rivergums teachers have played in the development and sharing of resources towards a knowledge-rich curriculum. #read2Learn, #syntaxproject, #morphologyproject

Our new K-6 English units encompass learning from being part of these projects, as well as ongoing and rigorous Professional Learning Teach Well Fogarty EDvance Christopher Such.

Building knowledge in ECE at Rivergums Primary

Building knowledge is a whole school approach at Rivergums. Maddison Parke

The Rivergums Review aims to close the gap between theory and practice, highlighting the evidence and work of educational key players. This will be distributed to staff and community in Weeks 3 & 8 each term.

Our inaugural Literacy Showcase was a huge success, we held parent workshops focussing on Literacy in ECE, Reading and Spelling. Opportunities were also provided for parents to observe Daily Reviews across Years K-1 and Spelling in Years 2-6.

Rivergums Review Issue 3 Writing and data informed practice.

📢Calling all exceptional educators! If you value high expectations, effective practice and want to work within a collaborative environment, follow the link below. Applications close 31 July. search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageI…

Our change journey implementing explicit instruction and high expectations for engagement has been validated with the release of recent NAPLAN data. The growth from Year 3 to Year 5 in English is impressive.

We are delighted to officially launch The Rivergums Recap. A podcast written, recorded and co-produced by the students at Rivergums Primary School, with the support from Mr Gardner. open.spotify.com/show/63tRkfg1R…

🚀 Rivergums staff are harnessing StepLab to foster a shared understanding of our instructional model! 📚💡 With data-driven insights, we're boosting rigor and fidelity, ensuring every learner's needs are met. Together, we're elevating education! 🌟📊