In these formative years, the Wesley Junior School (Early Learning to Year 4) offers students small class sizes and specialist primary-years teachers.
Student-centred learning focuses on fostering the knowledge, skills and attitudes children need to become lifelong learners.
Students explore concepts about themselves and the world around them through a combination of classroom learning, incursions, excursions, cocurricular activities and outdoor education camps.
The IB Primary Years Program (Early Learning - Year 6)
The IB is an internationally recognised, inquiry-based learning approach. Wesley College delivers the Australian curriculum through the framework of the IB, which promotes a strong academic foundation in numeracy, literacy and cognitive ability, while also preparing students to become curious, self-motivated and inquiring learners.
Students from early years to Year 6 learn within the framework of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB PYP).
Through the IB's transdisciplinary themes, students explore local, national and international perspectives and create meaningful links between classroom learning and the wider world. They develop skills in thinking, communication, research, self-management and social skills.
The PYP promotes a strong foundation in numeracy, literacy and cognitive abilities while preparing young students to become curious, self-motivated and inquiring learners.
Students learn through exploring transdisciplinary themes, investigating ideas, questions and concepts that span multiple disciplines, including the arts, languages, mathematics, physical and health education, science, social studies and technology.
The PYP’s six transdisciplinary themes address:
- who we are
- where we are in place and time
- how we express ourselves
- how the world works
- how we organise ourselves
- sharing the planet
Inquiry-based investigations into these themes take place across a number of learning areas simultaneously.
Learning areas include:
- the arts
- languages
- mathematics
- physical and health education
- science
- social studies
- technology
The IB PYP is a program of structured inquiry that prepares students for the next stage of their learning, culminating in an exhibition of their learning in Year 6.
Find out more about Years 5 and 6 in Wesley College's Middle School.
