PREP PROGRAM

Ringwood Heights Primary School has an outstanding Prep Program, offering exemplary education for your children. Our teaching staff, at this extremely important entry level, are only too happy to share their classrooms with interested parents. This open door policy exists in all classrooms across the school, and we welcome you to come and see our school in action.

We will happily provide a tour for prospective students at any level. A tour of our school can be very easily arranged by calling us on (03) 9870 3050.

INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

Ringwood Heights offers a comprehensive developmental curriculum implemented by a team of dedicated, caring professionals. We are a leading school in the development of literacy and numeracy profiles and in the planning and development of integrated units of work.

Children's learning experiences occur within an integrated curriculum, with the emphasis being on the integration of the 'content' areas of curriculum. These include literature, studies of society and environment, science, technology and health. The 'process' areas of the curriculum - speaking, listening, reading, viewing, writing, mathematics, drama, art/craft and music are the means by which children express their understandings of the curriculum content. We work on a 2 year curriculum cycle where each level explores 2 units per term/year.

ENGLISH AND LITERACY PROGRAM

We have a comprehensive literacy program, which embraces the principles of the Government's Early Years Strategy. Dedicated literacy teaching time with a focus on small group teaching caters for individual strengths and needs. A high level of trained parent helpers maximises comprehensive school resources which include, listening posts, big books, literature sets and computer programs. The successful implementation of the program is well supported through an additional assistance program and our literacy coordinator. Literacy across the school is further enhanced through a literature based library program.

MATHS AND NUMERACY PROGRAM

Numeracy learning occurs within the framework of a whole school approach to Maths. The curriculum is structured around real like contexts, which are relevant to the children. This provides interest and purpose and assists learning by linking previous experiences and knowledge. Rich assessment tasks and open-ended problem solving activities are planned together by teams of teachers at each learning level.

ARTS PROGRAM

There is a comprehensive Arts program operating across all levels. It includes visual arts, dance, media and music. The School Council supports a biennial Artist In School program which has 100 per cent student participation and high levels of adult and community involvement.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM

Our school integrates computer technology across all curriculum programs. Students are exposed to and use various forms of information and communication technologies daily. Each classroom has its own group of computers plus a shared computer pod outside each classroom. We have interactive whiteboards at every level in our school which students and teachers use in a variety of ways. The Ringwood Heights Primary School Mini Lab has an interactive whiteboard and IMAC computers that each class uses weekly.

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

At RHPS, we have a diverse physical education program and conduct many activities on our well equipped school grounds. This includes our oval, with football posts and cricket nets, and basketball /netball asphalt areas for other games and sports. Our program includes swimming lessons, an outdoor education program, Junior Sports Day, Senior House Sports, Cross Country running, athletics, Interschool Sports, Perpetual Motor Program (PMP). Local facilities within our community provide avenues to extend our program further and we often conduct event such as our House Sports at athletics tracks and Cross Country at local reserves.