Learning

Why choose us for your child’s learning?

At our school, we teach the NSW curriculum and offer many different subjects to support each student’s learning. We know that development of skills in literacy and numeracy are the building blocks for learning and for everyday life. Our teachers use effective teaching strategies to help students achieve their goals.

What students learn

Students learn a wide range of subjects in the NSW curriculum. They build skills, think creatively and prepare for life beyond school.

Learning at Paterson Public School

Our school uses explicit teaching. This means we clearly tell students what they are learning, why it is important and how to do it step by step. Explicit teaching helps students understand new ideas by breaking them into smaller parts.

Learning at our school is student-centred, inclusive and practical. We are committed to equity and access. We support all learning styles and needs. Our teachers use proven teaching strategies. They take part in ongoing professional development to stay up to date with best teaching practice.

Spelling Mastery

Spelling Mastery provides structured lessons to effectively and efficiently teach the spelling skills students need to become proficient readers and writers.

Research-based and classroom-proven for over 40 years, Spelling Mastery is designed to help your students become confident, life-long spellers.

Decodable Readers Australia

Decodable Readers Australia is a reading program we use at school to help children learn to read with confidence. The books are carefully matched to what students are learning in phonics, so they only include sounds and letters they've already been taught.

Each level builds on the last, allowing students to practise reading in a clear, structured way. The stories are engaging and Australian-themed, helping students develop their reading skills step by step.

Heggerty

In our Kindergarten classroom we use the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness program every day. In quick, engaging 10‑12 minute lessons, children develop skills like rhyming, blending, segmenting, and hearing the different sounds in words. It helps build the foundations they need for reading, spelling, and being confident with language.

EaST Mathematics

At our school we use the EaST (Explicit and Systematic Teaching) Mathematics Program to ensure every student builds strong, confident maths skills. It is a whole‑school approach that follows a clear explicit teaching structure, aligned with the NSW Mathematics syllabus.

• Explicit Teach Plans: New content is taught in a structured way (teacher modelling, guided practice, independent work) until students master it.
• Retrieval practice: Previously taught concepts are regularly revisited through Daily Maths Reviews to help embed learning in long‑term memory.
• Differentiation and scaffolding: Lessons include support that is gradually reduced as students gain confidence. There are challenge levels so all students are engaged and supported.

Helping students progress

We support every student’s academic progress by:

• checking their progress and giving clear and timely feedback
• setting learning goals with each student
• giving extra help with personalised plans and support from specialist staff
• reporting on each student’s learning progress so parents and carers know how their child is doing

• providing targeted literacy and numeracy support in small groups
• making wellbeing part of everyday learning
• working with families to support learning at home and school
• helping students through transitions, like starting school or moving to a new stage of learning.