Reservoir West Primary School

COMMUNICATION

RESPONSIBILITY: Laureen Adderley

This domain is embedded in all classroom and specialist programs.

Communication helps to construct all learning and is central to the capacity to demonstrate and convey what one has learned in different contexts and to different people. This domain assists students to understand that language and discourse differ in different disciplines and that there is a need to learn the particular literacies involved in each. Standards in the Communication domain are organised in two dimensions:

Listening, Viewing And Responding

Effective communication demands that students develop the ability to listen, view and respond to communication forms with respect to content and context. This dimension focuses on developing student understanding of communication conventions, strategies to assist them to make meaning of communication forms and the ability to deconstruct and respond to a diversity of forms. This involves developing familiarity with forms, language and conventions used in different contexts across the curriculum.

Presenting

The ability to present information and learning in a coherent and appropriate manner is critical for all learners. This dimension involves students gaining the knowledge, skills and behaviours to understand context, purpose and audience; select and use appropriate structure and organisation to convey meaning; and reflect on the style and content of the presentations they make.

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VICTORIAN ESSENTIAL LEARNING STANDARDS

This table outlines where a student is expected to be at a particular time in his/her educational journey. Most students will achieve the expected standard. Some will achieve to a higher standard. Some may not reach the expected standard.

Click to view a description of the behaviours that a student should display at each progression point in Communication at Level 4.

A student’s achievement is reported to parents at June and December. Click for an explanation of the Report Card.

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