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St Vincent’s Primary School  Action Plan LAND

Focus: To develop a shared understanding of numeracy and why we feel it is important to the community of St Vincent’s Primary School.

To develop an understanding of the current attitudes towards numeracy and implement actions that will enhance a positive approach to teaching numeracy throughout the school.

People Affected: The action taken by the LAND team will directly affect all members of the school community, namely students, staff, parents and other interested members.

Resistance There is a possibility that through the implementation of different actions that we will come across resistance. The areas that may produce the highest level of resistance may be as follows;

Parents – having an old view of mathematics that is being transferred to the students. We need to develop an environment of trust and reassurance. Teachers – using lack of time and resources as a way of not participating and not challenging themselves to attain a common good. If all staff have a common understanding then they must work towards achieving that understanding.

Helping Factors There are a variety of factors that are currently seen / available within the school community that we need to utilise in order to achieve the goal set. RAISe – our current use of RAISe structures such as PLC’s (Professional Learning Communities), LDT and NDT (Literacy / Numeracy Dedicated Time). Leadership Team – Principal, Assistant Principals, Cluster Leaders.

Current resources: People as well teaching tools,  Support Staff,   Technology,   LAND,   Other schools,   Ideas from Input. Attitudes underpin learning. Good attitudes = Good results. Relevance of the work being conducted is highly important. If people do not see the relevance then they will not be as motivated to implement the strategies as effectively as possible.

Possible Strategies: Survey  PLC – explicit numeracy focus   Structured NDT   Implementation of Non-negotiables   Professional Literature   Newsletter information