LOTE NewsWe learn both English and German, and some of our subjects are learnt in German!
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To read what the department (DEECD) has published about us last year, click here.
Exciting News
After 28 years of running out of portable buildings, it was with much excitement that the school received the news this year that it would be funded to construct a new, $2.5M “LOTE Centre of Excellence” under the government’s Building the Education Revolution (B.E.R.) funding. Stay tuned for future updates, as the building commences in Jan/Feb 2010!
To read some of the latest research and articles an the benefits of Languages Education, click here . This page has downloadable pdf files and links, including the article "common fallacies about multilingualism and second language acquisition" which is the work of Melbourne University with Bayswater South as one of the schools studied over many years.
The program builds on the students’ prior knowledge, skills and experiences and challenges them to extend their development.
Design, Creativity and Technology
Design and Technology activities are usually integrated into the students’ Art and SOSE topics.
Science
At Bayswater South Primary School we take pride in delivering a quality Science Program as part of the German Immersion Program. We have a well equipped Science Room that features colourful posters, models, networked computers, laboratory equipment, two blue-tongue lizards, three bearded dragons, a children’s python (Leopatra), two budgies (Bertie and Bertha), green tree frogs, plants, reference books, children’s work and of course Samuel the life-size Skeleton! We also have a large chicken coop and our friendly chooks are given access to the yard during the day. Our Sustainability Program ensures that the eggs are used in cooking, the scraps are fed back to the chooks or put in the compost bin, and the vegie garden is fertilised from the chook manure!
All the science disciplines, as set out by the VELS (Victorian 
Essential Learning Standards) documents are covered, and experimentation is a key feature of the program. Students become adept at making predictions and observing outcomes.
They learn that information can be presented in a variety of ways ranging from labelled illustrations to tables of results and graphs. All students in Years 5 and 6 participate in the University of New South Wales Science Competition which is held each year.
Students at Bayswater South Primary School have consistently outperformed similar schools in this test (shown over the last 11 years), even though the test is in English and the students are instructed in the German language.
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