Our Curriculum
Cooktown State School has adopted an innovative and challenging curriculum called Bound For Success. It is a challenging and innovative curriculum which caters to individual student’s needs and provides a sequenced and very structured approach to learning and teaching. Bound For Success has a number of key initiatives which our students and teachers are involved in on an ongoing basis. They are;
v District Wide Tasks
These tasks are completed by all year levels each semester by all schools involved in Bound For Success. This allows teachers to ensure that they have similar expectations about student achievement and that common curriculum goals are being met across schools at any one time. Teachers moderate these tasks, much like what happens in the Senior school, so that shared understanding of standards is ensured. Many of our students move between schools and many of our schools are located in remote areas, therefore District Wide Tasks ensure that schools, teachers and students are not operating in isolation.
v Individual Learning Plans
Every student in our school will have their own ILP which identifies goals to be achieved within that academic year. These goals fall within Numeracy, Literacy, Health and Oral Language. At the beginning of each year, teachers must identify a number of goals within those areas which they believe each student can achieve. As the year progresses, teachers monitor the progress of achieving these goals and document this process. Parents are made aware of the goals set for students in Parent teacher interviews at the end of term one and therefore can become involved in the achievement of these goals. This ILP travels with students if they move between schools involved in Bound For Success, ensuring that there are common expectations for learning.
v Scope and Sequence
The syllabus which underpins Bound For Success is sequential and very structured. The learning which begins in grade one is built upon in each successive year and there are very clear statements of learning which need to be addressed by the end of each year so that students progress to the next stage of learning.
