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K-6 Curriculum for Learning in NSW

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 K-6 Curriculum for NSW What is Curriculum? Curriculum is at the core of  quality teaching and learning . T he curriculum is a plan for learning based on mandated and approved syllabus documents and current departmental policies and procedures. The NSW curriculum refers to the suite of resources that are the syllabuses and the support resources to support teachers to implement the syllabuses. This includes, but is not limited to, resources including teaching and learning advice, assessment resources, and syllabus-specific materials including scope and sequences, units of work, standards materials and work samples. Each year, the students at Singleton Heights Public School will be taught subjects from syllabuses developed by the NSW Education Standards Authority.  The subjects taught in New South Wales Public Schools are as follows: English, mathematics, HSIE, Science & Technology, Creative Arts and PDHPE. NSW syllabuses provide an outline of the requirements for teach...
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Welcome back to our new families and welcome back to the community - Transition to the New School Year

  Hi there to everyone in the school community and welcome back to the new school year. I am trying a new form of communication to you, the school community, in 2026 and I hope it will alleviate the need for copious amounts of information within the current newsletter format, and I am also hoping this new blog series will give families some insight into topics of interest and my view and opinion about such topics, as your child's school leader. As we start the new year, I thought my first topic would be about transition to a new school year. This could mean starting school, as a new Kindergarten student, it could be starting at a new school, in a new community, and it is also a relevant topic for all students starting a new school year, in a new class, with new teachers, and new classmates. Transitions and Continuity of Learning The NSW Department of Education School Excellence Framework states that in a school that is excelling in its Learning Culture they will have a 'systema...
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