This is an area that we have put considerable time and effort developing to ensure that our school is doing the very best we can to set students up for a successful journey through school.  Our major focus for student early learning is on;

• Yarrawonga Big Day Out where Kindergarten children visit their prospective primary school to gain a feel/insight for what lies ahead in their schooling.
• Series of transition days in Term 4 for Kindergarten students to attend Primary School over an extended period of time (1 morning per week).
• Developing productive relationships with local kindergartens to get to know students who are at risk before they arrive at the school and conducting Ravens/Peabody tests with them.
• Initiating the Yarrawonga Early Years Group to discuss local issues around transition from Kinder-Prep and early years issues, consisting of A.P YPS and Principal Sacred Heart, teachers from both schools and a representative from every Kindergarten in Yarrawonga.
• Strategic alignment of teacher professional standards to agreed literacy, numeracy and student engagement strategies through the performance review process.
• Pre-Prep assessments to obtain information about where all students new to the school in Prep have learning strengths, difficulties and areas that need further development.
• Ravens & Peabody tests conducted for all students considered at risk at both Kindergarten and Prep years.
• Discussion around students once a fortnight as a welfare committee consisting of Principal, Assistant Principal, Teachers, Social Worker, Welfare Coordinator and Psychologist.
• Screening of Prep students in the areas of Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Intellectual assessment and intervention.
• Supporting students with follow up through ES staff, 5 hours of O.T follow up and 2 hours of speech follow up.
• Individual Learning Plans that have strategies and learning goals for all students to meet who are achieving above or below expected levels in the curriculum.
• Intervention programs for students having difficulty in the areas of literacy and numeracy. (Elementary Maths Mastery and MultiLit), also through ICT programs including Maths Blaster, Reading Blaster,