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What do teachers teach at Hoa Nghiem Primary School?
At Hoa Nghiem Primary School, we are very committed to our curriculum that is connected to our Buddhist Philosophy, our school identity.
Our Learning and Teaching Programs are designed to encourage and nurture the seed of love for learning in every child.
Our Awareness program, through the practice of meditation and awareness of personal thoughts and emotions, develops in students both their quality of presence and their quality of being in the 21st century and aims to awaken the seed of wisdom within them.
It is from the Buddhist approach as well as its close connection to Biomimicry thinking/science that we embrace the richness of the Victorian Curriculum and help students make connections between, across, and beyond all subject areas to better understand the inter-connectedness of life.
This systemic thinking and approach to learning help our students understand the challenges and opportunities of their time and provide them with the knowledge, strength, creativity, and courage to bring sustainable solutions for the present and future.
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The Victorian Curriculum plays a central part, providing a stable foundation for the whole school curriculum and assessment planning. It incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian standards and priorities.
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The curriculum includes a strong focus on the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy and on personal and social skills, thinking skills and new areas of learning such as Biomimicry thinking and the development of survival skills in a variety of contexts.
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The Victorian Curriculum gives students the skills they need for their future work as well as independence and autonomy in life: literacy, numeracy, scientific knowledge and skills, resilience, respectful relationships, the use of digital technologies and the capacity for critical and creative thinking and expression.
How do teachers teach at Hoa Nghiem PS?
As being ethical in our way of thinking and doing represents a very important value at our Buddhist school and because our students are aspiring to become ecologically literate, our teachers teach to not only learn ABOUT Nature but also FROM nature.
Students learn that during its 3.8 billion years of existence, Nature on Earth has developed amazing survival skills while staying sustainable in its successive processes of adaptation, transformation and growth.
Through our HNBC curriculum, our students understand and experience that Nature is a prolific source of knowledge. It is why they learn to meticulously observe Nature to be able to copy the forms and functions it creates endlessly in a sustainable manner. This way of observing and copying Nature is called biomimicry science. However, our students look for Nature’s knowledge not only in science. Whatever they study in the curriculum, they go extra steps beyond the topic studied by always wondering: “How Nature solves this problem?”
At Hoa Nghiem, biomimicry has also become a thinking process that our students activate in all areas of their learning.
Why it be great to be at Hoa Nghiem
We go as a river and have a school spirit, that results in the pedagogical practice of our daily teaching and learning at Hoa Nghiem.
Teacher's Voice from School Handbook
Meditation Song - Breathing (Awareness)
Greatest Happiness
