Intervention
Literacy Intervention
Strong literacy skills are the foundation for the future success of our young people in preparing them to meet the challenges of the changing nature of work in our society. At Tate Street Primary School, we provide targeted systematic instruction on fundamental reading skills within the classroom, with the support of our outstanding education support staff
Extension
Tate Street Primary School plans for extension across all classrooms. Students are encouraged to extend their learning in every classroom, whilst opportunities exist for further extension through programs like the Victorian High Achievers Program and the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series. A significant proportion of students in the upper primary program consequently undertake extension programs (including SEAL) in secondary school.
Story Dogs
Tate St is extremely lucky to be a part of the wonderful Story Dogs Program. Story Dogs is a fun and unique reading support program that improves children’s reading and communication skills through them reading to a trained companion dog and its handler.
We are enormously grateful to the Grovedale Waurn Ponds Rotary Club for their generous sponsorship.
The students on the program really look forward to the sessions each week and love reading to the dogs. The benefits of the program are clearly seen as the students have fun, they are not judged, their focus improves, their reading skills increase, and their confidence soars.