Oral Language Supporting Early Literacy (OLSEL) has been a key focus of St Michael's Primary to support development of and to facilitate early literacy development. We specifically target the development of oral language skills in the early years of schooling with a particular focus on the first year of schooling.

At St Michael's we offer a personalised approach to literacy encouraging students to explore their passions through a variety of reading, writing and oral language activities. 

At St Michael's we base our numeracy programs on a rigorous assessment process involving the 'PAT Maths'  and 'I Can Do Maths' tests developed by the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) and the Mathematics Assessment Interview (MAI). This along with many other formative assessment processes and the NAPLAN test ensures we can clearly identify areas of strength and gaps for future development. As with literacy, explicit instruction is a central focus for our quality teaching practices in numeracy. We also embrace open-ended learning tasks which are supportive and challenging to ensure we provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understandings in a range of contexts.