1. Glenmore Park Learning Alliance - Website Guide
Local schools working together
Regentville PS
Surveyors Creek PS
Emu Plains PS
Emu Heights PS
Leonay PS
Warragamba PS
Glenmore Park PS
Glenmore Park Learning Alliance - Website Guide

2. Homepage
Please go to
To access the Glenmore Park Learning Alliance website.
On the website we have:
Maths and English Units
Useful websites
Science Units (coming soon)
History Units (coming soon)
Information about professional
development opportunities across the
schools.
Parent Information
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3. Staff Tab This tab will give you access to:
ATSI information and resources
Edmodo information about how to join the GPLA group
Worthwhile websites such as Modern Chalkboard, Habits of Mind info etc.
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4. ATSI
Under the STAFF tab, you can access the ATSI page. On this page you can
access information about:
Interactive Dreamtime stories
Interactive Aboriginal Artwork displays
Reading and comprehension resources
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5. Edmodo
Under the STAFF tab, you can access the EDMODO page. On this page
you can access information about:
How to join the GPLA Edmodo group. This group allows you to discuss matters
with other members of the GPLA and other members of the group. Please feel
free to join the group at any point.
Edmodo is a professional networking website for educators.
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6. Worthwhile Websites
On the ‘Worthwhile Websites’ page are a range of useful sites. If you
have your own websites that you believe should be shared, please
forward them through to Nick Lister or Bradley Lanham.
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7. English
After hitting the ENGLISH tab, you can then move into ES1-S3 for units of
work or you can access other syllabus resources or information on
Focus on Reading
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8. Early Stage 1 – Stage 3
Under the ENGLISH tab, you can access the ES1-S3 pages. On this page
you can access the:
Planners/templates that are used by the GPLA
The content covered by the units as a downloadable file
Literary devices and concepts that units can be based on
You also have the tabs to access the pages – UNITS OF WORK, ASSESSMENT and
INTERACTIVE WEBSITES
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9. Units of Work
Under the ES1-S3 tabs, you can access the UNITS OF WORK pages.
On these pages you can access:
All of the English Concept Units that have been made. These units may be added
to in the near future, so please keep an eye out for new units.
To download the units please click on the links as shown.
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10. Assessment
This page is still under construction. Once assessment tasks for the
English Concept Units have been created, they will be posted on this page
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11. Interactive Websites
Under the ENGLISH > ES1-S3 tabs, you can access the INTERACTIVE
WEBSITES pages. On these pages you can access :
A range of great interactive websites for the English Syllabus. As shown,
these have been broken into the areas of – Reading and Viewing, Writing and
Representing, Grammar and Punctuation, Spelling and Handwriting and Keyboard
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12. Interactive Websites
Once you click on the area that you need, you will be redirected to a
Symbaloo website that has all of the interactive websites neatly organised.
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13. Focus On Reading
Under the ENGLISH tab, you can access the Focus On Reading page.
On this page you can access:
Focus On Reading posters for the classroom. These are downloadable
PDF documents.
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14. Focus On Reading Here is an example of the downloadable PDF documents
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15. Mathematics
After hitting the MATHEMATICS tab, you will see a list of all of the
sub-strand leaders of the Mathematics Team. You will also have tabs for
ES1-S3.
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16. Early Stage 1 – Stage 3: Landing Pages
* On these pages you have general information and a contact if you
wish to send any further units to help fill gaps in our units of work. Any units that you
create would be greatly appreciated.
On this page you also have the tabs for the three strands – Number and Algebra,
Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability.
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17. Strand Pages
If you click one of the strand tabs, as shown, you will be redirected to…
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18. Strand Pages
.. the page where all of the Content Checklists are located. These are
downloadable links.
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19. What is a Content Checklist?
A Content Checklist will tell you:
* What content has been grouped together into a weekly plan
* What plan each piece of content is in so staff can quickly access planning
for each part of the syllabus
* What content HAS NOT been planned for
(we are aiming to plug these holes and any help with this is greatly appreciated)
All of this
content is
located in
PLAN 1 for
LENGTH
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20. Sub-Strand Planning
Under the MATHEMATICS > ES1-S3 > STRAND tabs, you can access the
SUB-STRAND pages. On these pages you can access:
Weekly planning for that particular stage and sub-strand – these are downloadable files
Feedback Link. PLEASE leave feedback on units, regardless of whether you are a GPLA school or not, so that we can refine our work to enhance the quality of our work.
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21. LA Maths - Planning
Our planning is the same for each plan. All plans include the following:
Outcomes and content covered
Assessment for Learning and Warm Up Drills
TENS Activity OR Newmans Problem
Checklist for Quality Teaching Framework
Resources required for the weekly plan
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22. LA Maths - Planning
Our planning is the same for each plan. All plans include the following:
Whole class/Modeled Activities
Guided and independent activities at the Stage appropriate level
Differentiated guided and independent activities
Areas to evaluate and reflect on the lessons that you deliver
Assessment Task are highlighted in red font
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23. Using the GPLA Mathematics Lessons
As a committee we looked into how much time we would need to spend on
each sub-strand across ES1 – S3. Each stage of learning was very different.
For example, Fractions and Decimals in S3 required significantly more time
than in S1.
With this in mind, we put together a plan for the number of weeks that we thought
should be spent teaching each sub-strand area. All schools agreed that each
week one Number and Algebra sub-strand would be taught and one other
sub-strand area. This meant that over a Stage, there would be approximately
70-75 weeks of learning in Number and Algebra and weeks across
the other sub-strand areas, as they would be taught simultaneously throughout
the week. ES1 would be spread over 40 weeks.
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24. Using the GPLA Mathematics Lessons
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25. Scope and Sequences
This is where the Mathematics Team are up to in our development of the
GPLA Mathematics Program. We are currently looking into putting the
units of work into a scope and sequence.
All of the GPLA sub-strand teams decided on the order in which each piece of
content should be taught. We are now putting our weekly plans together in a
scope and sequence.
On the website we have also broken (most) of the weekly lesson plans apart,
as it is in the syllabus – i.e. Time 1 and Time 2 - so that you can order the
content appropriately in a scope and sequence.
If you make your own scope and sequence and wish to forward it to us, please
do so.
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26. Science Under the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY tab, you can access the
ES1-S3 pages to find units of work for the new syllabus.
Please keep coming back and see what new and exciting units have been
added to the website.
If you have any questions about the Science units, please contact Rebecca Palmer
(Science Coordinator –
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27. Science Units
Under the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY > ES1 – S3 tabs, you can
access the units of work.
The units of work are available as a downloadable link
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28. History
Our History team will soon start to work on new and exciting things
in this area.
Keep checking this tab to see what they are working on.
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29. Parents
This page is still in its infancy. If you have any useful websites or
documents that you believe would be beneficial to parents, can you
please them to
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