Lowood State School, is driven by Student Led Learning and our delivery of the Australian Curriculum occurs in engaging ways to ensure students at Lowood State School are focussed on their learning, are learning through interests and have voice in their learning. We follow a Universal Design for Learning approach which ensures all students in our school are catered for within their classrooms.
To maximise teaching and learning outcomes, teachers at Lowood do not operate in isolated, privatised classrooms. Instead, they are members of Learning teams (P/1, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6) and they work collaboratively to deliver curriculum units in English, Mathematics, Science, HASS using the Australian Curriculum. Specialists deliver HPE, The Technologies, The Arts and LOTE through the Australian Curriculum also. We also teach Social Emotional Learning through our delivery of The Resilience Project, this learning focusses on the GEMS - Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness.
The multi-age philosophy, which has been adopted at Lowood SS recognises that students learn and develop at different rates, and hence should not be held to time constraints (i.e. lock-step ‘grading’). The multi-age classroom is an environment where the teacher provides a developmentally appropriate curriculum based on each child’s unique progress, growth and needs.