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Home School Curriculum Preps Students Teachers Cluster Projects Site Map Staff Vacancies Contact Us	Principal: Ian Michelson We, the Staff of Bayswater Primary School, have been given the privilege and the responsibility of working in partnership with families to equip our students with the skills and understandings they need to live happy and fulfilling lives. We enable our students to make significant contributions to society by facilitating their academic, physical, inter-personal and personal growth; laying foundations for successful ongoing learning across all strands of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. Our work can be complex as we seek to promote the learning of all students. There are however important principles that have been demonstrated to make a positive difference to student learning. These principles include: Good relationships We aim to greet every student every day and to make time regularly for a chat to each student. We want to make sure that each student understands that she / he is important. We seek to develop partnerships with parents so that we can work together to help their child learn and grow. High expectations We have high but achievable expectations for all of our students. Time on task We aim to ensure that students spend a high proportion of class time on appropriate learning tasks Engaging Curriculum We embed learning and teaching in themes that generate interest and capture the imagination. We aim to have students engaged in their own learning: setting goals and self assessing. Differentiated curriculum We aim to differentiate learning tasks to meet the learning needs of all students. Explicit teaching of important skills and understandings We ensure that students are developing essential skills and understandings. Sometimes the best way to do this is through explicit teaching. · Ongoing student assessment Our curriculum planning must be informed by an understanding of how our students are progressing enabling us to effectively target our efforts to meet student learning needs.