Setting the Foundations for a Love of Learning
Choosing an early learning environment for a child is one of the most important decisions that a parent can make. Macquarie Anglican Grammar School believes in providing early learning programs designed to build on the natural curiosity and sense of wonder of young children, and to provide opportunities for the development of the whole child (physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually) in these critical early learning years.
Macquarie’s Pre-kindergarten program caters for children aged four, to prepare them for transitioning to Kindergarten the following year. They believe that ‘School-readiness’ is more than just preparing children for the world of literacy and numeracy. At Macquarie, there is also an intentional focus on equipping their youngest learners with habits to support their engagement in learning and providing them with strategies on how to become more confident learners, as well as key skills for social and emotional learning – friendship skills, understanding emotions and showing empathy.
The Macquarie Teaching and Learning
Framework was launched in 2022 and has been developed to strengthen students’ independence as learners and aims to provide them with habits to support their engagement whilst providing them with strategies on how to become better learners. Teachers in every classroom aim to develop both content learning and develop the habits and character of students as lifelong learners. As such, students of Macquarie will develop a ‘Learning Mind’. The Framework consists of four learning dispositions, each which contain a set of behaviours that are implicitly taught to students from Pre-k right through to Year 12. The skills, which build year after year, aim to strengthen the students’ independence as learners and also have the benefit of providing the students with a tool-kit of skills that they can call upon when faced with challenges, not only in learning, but also in life.
To learn more about Macquarie’s Teaching and Learning Framework, our Pre-kindergarten to Year 12 programs or to make an enrolment enquiry for 2025 and beyond, please visit: www.mags.nsw.edu.au