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The recently established Casuarina Street Primary School Learning Hub is a versatile space designed to optimise student learning.
The hub is home to the Student Support Team and the operational base of Accelerate@CSPS, the reading intervention program devised by the teachers to support students in pursuit of their literacy development goals.
Student Support Team member Emma Herps said Accelerate@CSPS uses 'starting point' data to identify areas for improvement and personal literacy learning targets.
"This data is confidentially shared with students through interactive data displays, and it's used to reflect on and celebrate their progress," she said.
"In an Accelerate session, small groups of students across the early years work with teachers and mentors to receive additional support with reading, speech, writing, and letters and sounds.
"Running Accelerate from this area has minimised interruptions to normal class programs and maximised student involvement.
"Student feedback on the hub has included, 'The teachers teach me how to do the alphabet, and to read' and from a teacher's perspective, 'I think we are very lucky to have the Accelerate program, and I think we have seen, and will continue to see wonderful progress'. "
But the Learning Hub as a Transition to Year 6 student social and wellbeing development centre illustrates its flexibility.
A Lego Club is run for students in Transition to Year 2, while those in years 3 to 6 concentrate on team building activities and challenges.
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Kiteni Holt, also a Student Support Team member, said these programs give students opportunities to explore relationships through play and group experiences and build a toolkit of engagement strategies in social situations.
"The Student Support Team uses this new space to set students up for success and foster ongoing partnerships with families," she said.
"This is achieved when the team, classroom teachers, and parents and carers work collaboratively to support students in their learning."