Researching Caped Crusaders: The Boys Flying High Project in Early Literacy at Camp Hill

View/ Open
Author(s)
Bartlett, B
Grimbeek, P
Fluckiger, B
Year published
2004
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Boys at Camp Hill Infants State School have not yet learned to fail. Their superior performances in reading, writing and numeracy on The Year 2 Diagnostic Net in relation to State averages for Year 2 children generally, and for other boys particularly, are indicative of a sturdy resistance to factors seemingly inflicting their peers across the State and nationally. Newspapers, TV and radio, sensitive to public interest in the phenomenon, have interviewed the school's children, teachers, principal and university associates, all of whom speak positively about this result and the learning environment in which the boys have done ...
View more >Boys at Camp Hill Infants State School have not yet learned to fail. Their superior performances in reading, writing and numeracy on The Year 2 Diagnostic Net in relation to State averages for Year 2 children generally, and for other boys particularly, are indicative of a sturdy resistance to factors seemingly inflicting their peers across the State and nationally. Newspapers, TV and radio, sensitive to public interest in the phenomenon, have interviewed the school's children, teachers, principal and university associates, all of whom speak positively about this result and the learning environment in which the boys have done so well. In this presentation, the principal, a critical friend and his critical colleague consider recent research of the management practices used at the school, pedagogical adaptations made to better suit boys, how Camp Hill SIS's boys appear to become engaged in the education process, and how school and home sustain boys' interest in learning.
View less >
View more >Boys at Camp Hill Infants State School have not yet learned to fail. Their superior performances in reading, writing and numeracy on The Year 2 Diagnostic Net in relation to State averages for Year 2 children generally, and for other boys particularly, are indicative of a sturdy resistance to factors seemingly inflicting their peers across the State and nationally. Newspapers, TV and radio, sensitive to public interest in the phenomenon, have interviewed the school's children, teachers, principal and university associates, all of whom speak positively about this result and the learning environment in which the boys have done so well. In this presentation, the principal, a critical friend and his critical colleague consider recent research of the management practices used at the school, pedagogical adaptations made to better suit boys, how Camp Hill SIS's boys appear to become engaged in the education process, and how school and home sustain boys' interest in learning.
View less >
Conference Title
Educating: Weaving Research into Practice, Vol 1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2004. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owners for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the authors.