Vision Valley is a unique learning environment that provides students with new opportunities to learn holistically in diverse and different ways.
Academic learning Learning at Vision Valley will embrace the opportunities afforded by the natural environment, beyond the confines of a rigid timetable, four-walled classroom, textbook or screen. In 2016, the Finnish National Board of Education mandated Phenomena Based Learning as a progressive approach to curriculum and pedagogy suitable for 21st Century learners. This approach explores real-world phenomena that cross subject boundaries, allowing students to view these phenomena from the viewpoints of multiple subject-based disciplines, see the world in its complexity and seek out inclusive solutions to complex problems. The Finnish system is widely recognised as world leading and this model of learning is well suited to the opportunities for learning at Vision Valley. With this context in mind, the following goals have been established for the program. • T o focus on learning about the environment, in and through the environment.
• T o engage deeply with complex phenomena beyond the bounds of traditional curriculum structures and timetables. • T o support academic continuity and a smooth transition back to the classroom, learning and assessments. Pymble and Riverview staff and students are working together to co-design the learning experiences that best achieve these goals at Vision Valley.
MODES OF LEARNING Teachers will focus on teaching complex phenomena related to their patterns of study and the context of Vision Valley through integrated units of work that cross the boundaries of multiple subjects.
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