Investigations in Prep and Year 1 

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning all Prep and Year 1 students participate in Investigations. This pedagogy is based on 'The Walker Learning Approach', an effective and age appropriate pedagogy for early years students. Investigations allow students to become the active participant in their learning.  

Our teachers strategically set up creative open-ended experiences that allow students to investigate, explore, manipulate, create and interact along with instruction in skills and knowledge in literacy, numeracy and other curriculum areas. Each experience has a 'provocation' that invites students to engage in the learning experience. Investigations ensures authentic, personalised learning for each student. 

Each day, our teachers scaffold the learning of the students through a 'tuning in' process.  During this process, the focus child, reporter and photographer are selected for this session. This is followed by 'investigations' in which students work in the learning environment that has been intentionally set up to meet the learning needs and interest of the students. Following, Investigations our students spend time reflecting on their learning and making links to the explicit teaching that will occur later in the day or week.

When Investigations are occuring in the classroom, all students are highly engaged in meaningful learning.