Today Mother Teresa School hosted a Let's Decode professional learning day with Associate Professor Lorraine Hammond from the School of Education, Edith Cowan University WA. This will involve 30 teachers from several schools including a number of our staff from Kinder to Year 2.   This day is part of the Catholic Education Catalyst initiative to foster high-impact teaching practices and improve reading across our school system. 

During the day the participants engaged with a number of our Kinder children as they practiced and develop the skills to implement Let's Decode, a Synthetic Phonemic approach to supporting the literacy development of young children.  

Last week a High Impact Teaching Practice Primary Intensive professional learning course was held at St Thomas the Apostle Primary School in Kambah. Sarah Campbell, Janene Sadlier and Lauren Maher attended the three days to build their knowledge, observe demonstrations, apply techniques in their own practice, and receive coaching feedback from Dr Lorraine Hammond and her teacher colleagues. 65 teachers from primary schools in our system attended. They were joined by  25 teachers from as far afield as Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. The Canberra Times reported on this in Saturday’s paper