Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning. In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.
Cross curriculum priorities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
- sustainability
General capabilities
- critical and creative thinking
- ethical understanding
- information and communication technology capability
- intercultural understanding
- literacy
- numeracy
- personal and social capability
Other learning across the curriculum areas
- civics and citizenship
- difference and diversity
- work and enterprise.
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Special religious education and special education in ethics
Parents/caregivers have the right to have their children receive instruction in their preferred religious persuasion or ethics, where authorised volunteers of that persuasion are available. Students whose parents have not indicated their preference or have elected not to attend special religious education (SRE) or special education in ethics (SEE) instruction will be supervised during this time by Epping North Public School teachers in non-religious and non-curriculum based activities.
Below is the list of approved SRE/SEE program options and their providers at Epping North Public School.
- Option 1: Kindergarten to Year 6 Catholic SRE is Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay
- Option 2: Kindergarten to Year 6 Protestant SRE is Anglican Diocese of Sydney
- Option 3: Kindergarten to Year 6 ethics is primary ethics
Students continue in the same arrangement each year which was selected by parent/caregivers upon enrolment unless a request has been changed in writing. At any time, you have the right to change your SRE/SEE nomination or to withdraw your child from the nominated programs. A note to the office will affect this change.
SRE/SEE is held on Thursday mornings:
- Kindergarten to Year 2 is held from 9:10am until 9:40am
- Year 3 to 6 is held from 9:40am until 10:10am.
Peer literacy and numeracy tutoring program
The peer literacy and numeracy tutoring (PLANT) program support Kindergarten students in Terms 2 to 4. Students from Years 3 to 6 tutor Kindergarten students in the morning before school to help them with their reading, spelling and early number strategies.