Criteria 1: Teachers Make Learning Explicit

Across the school, teachers make learning explicit to students mainlyby posting learning
objectives in the classroom daily. Teachers then use these displays at the beginning of their
lessons to engage students and make the learning goals clear. Teachers also use skills
rubrics, unit plans, and lesson plans to make learning explicit.

Year 1
W.A.L.T. and W.I.L.F
Teachers use W.A.L.T. (We Are Learning To) and W.I.L.F. (What Im Looking For) at the
beginning of lessons to draw the learners attention to what they need to focus on and what
they are learning or practising.

Year 2
Displayed Learning and Skills Objectives
Teachers display relevant subject skills and learning objectives on the board so all students
can see exactly what the learning aims are for various subjects, such as History, ICT,
Science, Technology, and Geography.

Year 3
Team Meeting Notes
Year 3 teachers discussed explicit questions to ask students in IPC lessons during one of
their team meetings.

Displayed Learning Objectives

In Year 3, teachers explicitly display major learning goals for students to engage with before
and after a lesson. Subjects are displayed in first person form to help students relate to each
learning task.

Year 4
Displayed Learning Objectives
Teachers display and record the learning targets. They elicit questions to help students
expand on what they are learning.

Seniors
Displayed Learning Objectives
Daily activity objectives are noted on the board and talked about before, during and after
lessons.

Skills Rubrics
Rubrics are displayed in class and placed in student workbooks for reference throughout the
unit. Teachers use these to make learning explicit, and students use these to reflect on their
learning and celebrate growth

Chinese

Explicit Unit Plans

Chinese teachers explicitly plan each units knowledge, skills, and understanding goals.
These are shared with the students in the relevant lessons.

Learning Support
IEP Review
The learning support staff creates specific planning sheets to make learning explicit and to
meet students needs. These plans include activities and strategies for teaching, observed
learning outcomes (noted below), and a reflective analysis for learning. They then include
pupil comments, teacher self evaluations, and notes for future sessions.

Music
Displayed Learning Objectives
Learners read and discuss the lesson objective as class begins, so they know what the
learning aim intentions are for the that lesson.

Physical Education
Lesson Planning
This is a lesson plan by Coach Nick taken from Planbook for 2A on 25 November, showing
that in each lesson, the WALT is given to the students, as is the Unit bible verse and the
Knowledge, Skill and Understanding components. They are written up on the whiteboard
and discussed at the beginning, and referred to at intervals throughout the PE lesson.

IPC Unit collaboration with PE

This is an email discussing the Year 3s using a tug of war game in PE to help with their
entry point into Feel the Forces. Although it is a fun activity, the learning is made explicit
by explaining using tug of war to understand friction. After the activity, teachers
discussed the physical effects of tug of war and related it to the unit over the course of
three weeks.