Templeton Instructional Model

Informed by the Victorian Curriculum, our Instructional Model is based on The Three Pillars. Our Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) meet weekly to analyse student data, identify student, group and cohort point of need, and plan lessons for The Three Pillars.

Our lessons are highly structured, with a clear Learning Intention and We Are Learning To (WALT) statement, followed by explicit instruction. Teachers monitor student progress with formative and summative assessment and anecdotal notes. Teacher and student reflection concludes each lesson, followed by assessment, feedback and Victorian Curriculum Reporting in June and December.

Inquiry

Bringing all of our practice together is our Inquiry program. Inquiry inspires curiosity and creativity while facilitating student agency and voice. It connects our curriculum by providing context and purpose for our direct and explicit teaching pedagogy. Our four school values of Respect, Integrity, Empathy and Resilience are behaviours that our students model, while our units are designed to build skills and knowledge that culminate in a Templeton student that embodies all attributes of our Learner Profile – Balanced, Communicator, Confident, Risk Taker, Principled, Inquirer and Knowledgeable.

Templeton’s Chinese language program is run by Mrs Xiao-mei Lin and Mr Robin Miao. Our Year P – 6 students attend full immersive language lessons once a week in our LOTE Room. Due to the high number of students at Templeton with an Asian background, we also run an extension program to further develop our students’ Language skills.

Our Information and Communications Technology (ICT) program has been running at Templeton since 2000, when Les Boag, Keith Foster, Mark Johnson and the School Council built our Computer Lab in the main building. The Computer Lab is still evolving, incorporating the latest technologies for our students.

In 2022, all year levels have been refitted with Promethean Smart Boards, 40 laptops in classrooms, and 30 laptops shared. One of the benefits of 2020-2021 Remote Learning was the up skilling of students in online learning, as students accessed our Blogs and Google Classroom every day.

Our ICT program is designed to not only extend the skills of children in word processing, presentations and educational games, but provide opportunities to explore web building, animation and movie making.

The Templeton Primary School Library is the learning hub of our school. It is home to a vast collection of non-fiction and fiction texts, teacher resources and the Edupass server room. The Library was renamed the Elizabeth Jones Memorial Library in honour of former staff member Elizabeth Jones, who passed away in 1987.

Our Performing Arts program is run by Mrs Wood and Mrs Taylor from our School Council funded centre located near the Top Junior Playground. The program incorporates music, performance and dance, while Grade 2-6 students also have the opportunity to learn specialised instrumental music lessons. In Term 3, Grade Prep learn Bush Dancing, culminating in a Bush Dance in the GP Room. The Grade 2 cohort conducts a performance night in Term 3 run by Mrs Taylor.

The Grade 6 Musical is the highlight of every year at Templeton, with our Grade 6 students always delivering a spectacular night of entertainment. Led by Pam Wood, Megan Hall and the Year 6 Team, Performing Arts has staged a Musical every year since 1996. Students audition in November, followed by rehearsals beginning in February. At the end of Term 2, our students deliver the performance at Forest Hill Secondary College.

We offer a stimulating visual arts program which encourages creative and imaginative ways of thinking. Students have the opportunity to express their knowledge, ideas and feelings in an individual and expressive way. We inspire the development of a strong sense of aesthetic appreciation, and skills and techniques in a range of media in all students.