Learning & Curriculum

At Gumeracha Primary School, we are committed to providing meaningful and authentic learning experiences tailored to individual needs. We pride ourselves on building learning environments that are inclusive of all needs. Our classes are organized into composite year levels across the school and our children play freely across age ranges during our three play breaks each day.

OUR LESSON STRUCTURES

  • Lesson block #1 8:50-10:30 100 minutes
  • Morning recess 10:30-10:50 20 minutes
  • Lesson block #2 10:50-11:40 50 minutes
  • Lunch play 11:40-12:10 30 minutes
  • Eating time 12:10-12:20 10 minutes
  • Lesson block #3 12:20-14:00 100 minutes
  • Afternoon recess 14:00-14:20 20 minutes
  • Lesson block #4 14:20-15:20 60 minutes

To ensure relevance and engagement, our curriculum is designed based on what students already know and their interests. By following both the South Australian Curriculum and the Australian Curriculum, we offer a comprehensive education that prepares our students for the future.

We encourage our students to be curious, confident, and capable learners who take an active interest in their community and the world around them.

Students at Gumeracha Primary School have numerous opportunities to learn both within and beyond the classroom. Our specialist programs include:

  • Using both hands on and digital technologies to design and create innovative ideas
  • Growing and harvesting food in our SAKG program
  • Spending time caring for our school animals and tending to our natural spaces
  • Exploring in our bush garden and natural landscapes
  • Participating in music lessons with a specialist teacher in terms 3 and 4 of each year
  • Learning to play an instrument and participating in the Torrens Valley music hub

Our classrooms are spacious, calm and inclusive. Teachers and students take pride in their learning spaces and take care in how they present their learning.

We invite you to explore the many learning opportunities available at Gumeracha Primary School and join us in nurturing the next generation of curious, confident, and capable learners.

Early Years

Our team work closely with local feeder kindergartens well before children begin school. Our teachers visit the local kindergarten to establish relationships with children and their families.

Daily learning includes:

  • Phonics instruction using the Department for Education Phonics scope and sequence
  • Phonemic awareness to hear and use sounds in words
  • Modelled reading and reading with an adult
  • Maths to develop number sense and visual, spatial reasoning and problem solving
  • Play-based investigations
  • Speaking & listening activities to develop oral language and social skills
  • Fine and gross motor tasks

Middle & Upper Primary Years

As students move into their primary years, they have increased opportunities to work independently and make choices about the topics and ideas they wish to learn more about. Our 5/6 students have access to a 1:1 laptop for use at school and can choose when they wish to write by hand or type.

Daily learning includes:

  • Guided Reading with an adult and independent reading
  • Writing and Spelling using the Department for Education Spelling & morphology scope & sequence
  • Speaking & listening activities to develop oral language, vocabulary and social skills
  • Maths to develop fluency in number, to deepen understanding of concepts, choose and apply mathematics to different contexts, reason and justify strategies used.
  • Movement and physical activity
Our Staff