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AS Channel Christian School kicks off 2018, there is a lot of excitement about innovative teaching practices.

The school has been developing and will continue to move forward with Nature Play, with the aim of embedding the program into the curriculum across the school.

Nature Play brings the natural environment into the school grounds, incorporating sand, plants and flowing water into the playground.

A specialist visual arts teacher is being employed who will teach across the year levels.

The curriculum surrounding STEM Education will be further developed, with the brief being that staff will collaborate and structure the teaching and learning to include all three of the following approaches:

The school’s Coding Club will continue to encourage and challenge students, as will the weekly Bric-a-Build Club, which focuses on creative problem-solving through the use of Lego.

The performing arts will continue to receive attention, with an increase in what will be offered to students from the specialist music teacher.

Both dance and arts and crafts will also continue to be part of the school’s co-curricular program.

An exciting option that was presented to the community last year was the introduction of after-school care.

This service, which is being facilitated by Camp Australia, will continue, and planning is under way to include holiday care.

Sport will continue to offer new challenges for students under the leadership of the school’s full-time specialist teacher.

At the start of the year, students will be involved in orienteering, and the regular swimming, athletics and cricket programs will continue to be a focus of the school, to develop a healthy body and mind in every student.

At Channel we “love to learn, and learn to love’’ and we endeavour in all our teaching to build relationships with all in our community, which makes our school unique.

Offering diversity in all that we do provides high-quality education from professional and passionate educators.