We will employ Ms Lucy O’Connell and Ms Liza Marino to support student learning following the periods of remote and flexible learning.   This funding will help us to deliver additional targeted teaching support to students in a way that best suits our local circumstances.  We will need to identify students requiring tutoring support with a focus on literacy and numeracy. In order to identify students, teachers will use a variety of data.

Students who may require additional support include those:

- with low levels of English

- with home environments not conducive to remote and flexible learning

- already at risk of disengaging from school and

- who need educational and health and wellbeing supports at school but were unable

to access them at home.

The tutoring style will be small group based and use an evidence-based approach to differentiated teaching. The idea is for students to be tutored in short (30 or 45 minute) regular sessions (between 3-to-5 times a week), over a sustained period (between 10-to-20 weeks).  We are presently planning our school’s approach, or combination of approaches, to tutoring that best fits our context and the needs of our students.  Tutors will work under the direction of and in collaboration with the classroom teacher to implement evidence-based approaches that target the needs of the students within the group. In the coming weeks if your child has been identified as someone requiring tutoring support we will be in contact with you and give you further information on how this program will run.  If you think your child needs this program, I encourage you to talk directly to your child’s teacher.  It may be that our school data reinforces this idea or it may be that the school data doesn’t confirm this approach, either way it is positive to talk to the class teacher about this.