Curriculum

Across the School the academic program is wide-ranging and broadly based and children at all levels are encouraged to develop their talents in many areas before specialising in Years 11 and 12.

Child Parent Centre

The Child Parent Centre offers children a stimulating education with child centred methodology and an enriching curriculum which not only meets the child’s individual academic needs but also develops interests and capacities. Young children have a curriculum of their own founded in their home, family and community experiences. Our skilled staff based their curriculum on the knowledge, skills and experiences of the child to develop meaningful and enabling learning experiences for every child. The Developmental Learning Outcomes of the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability Framework form the basis of the Learning Areas: Self and social development; Arts and creativity; Communication and language; Design and Technology; Diversity; Health and physical Education; Understanding our world.

Junior School - Reception to Year 5

The Junior School, provides its own distinctive environment caring for the intellectual, physical, social and emotional of students from Reception to Year 5.

The Junior School has a wide-ranging curriculum and is a happy, safe and stimulating place where children are encouraged to recognise and develop their own abilities, to respect those of others, and to strive to reach the highest possible level in all that they undertake. Every effort is made to address the individual learning needs of each child.

Opportunities are provided for students to come to know the world through different perspectives, represented by subjects within the broad curriculum areas of: The Arts; English; Health and Physical Education; German; Mathematics; Science; Society and the Environment; and Technology. Information and Communication Technologies are embedded across the curriculum

Program Achieve provides the five foundations for ensuring that students gain the skills of Confidence; Getting Along With Others, Organisation; Persistence; and Resilience. This program is integrated into Health and Social Skills programs.

Middle School - Years 6 10

Tintinara Area School provides a well-resourced curriculum package that is balanced, challenging and relevant by:

• focusing on the key competencies, essential learnings, key ideas and outcomes of the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability (SACSA) framework
• integrating learning across the curriculum with a special emphasis on embedding ICT, literacy and numeracy in all learning areas
• developing curriculum areas that actively engage students in applying skills to solve practical, real life problems
• ensuring area of study reflect vocational learning
• identifying and targeting students for intervention in literacy and numeracy.

From Years 6-9, students study a compulsory curriculum to ensure that the SACSA learning outcomes are achieved and that options for further studies are kept open.

Year 10

The Curriculum is offered as a mixture of compulsory and optional subjects:

Compulsory: English, Health and PE; Mathematics and Science
Society and the Environment is covered through SACE Stage 1 subects:
Australian Studies and Work Education

Optional: Students choose from the Arts and Technical areas for face to face
lessons or make choices through Open Access, VET or a training organisation.

SACE Stage 1 and 2

SACE Subjects may be taken as a flexible learning option for students younger than Year 11 if they show a capacity for being successful in the study of that subject. Students may choose from a range of subjects, either by face to face in classes or through Open Access.

SACE Stage 2 subjects are usually only offered through Open Access, VET or a training organisation.

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TINTINARA AREA SCHOOL
The Principal: Jo Artz
37 Wendt Terrace, TINTINARA, SA 5264
Phone: 8757 2120
Fax: 8757 2187
Email: principal@tas.sa.edu.au