Languages

Italian

Students from Prep to Year 6 participate in a weekly class with a specialist Italian teacher. St Vincent's Italian language centre maintains its reputation for engaging students with reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Print and digital resources are used, while online learning platforms as well as hands-on activities combine to provide enjoyable and effective learning experiences.

Students are able to enjoy cultural understanding, acquire communication skills and develop as Australian and global citizens.

Key Ideas

Students learn to communicate meaningfully across linguistic and cultural systems, and different contexts.

Culture

Language

Primary school students in costumes on a stage holding certificates during a cultural or dress up event, with audience seated in front and flags displayed behind them

Communicating

Socialising
Informing
Creating
Translating
Reflecting

Students sit on the ground watching an adult demonstrate a hands-on activity using a bowl and red liquid, with small coloured cones placed in front during an outdoor learning session

Understanding

Systems of language
Language variation and change
The role of language and culture

Two students stand outdoors in costume, one dressed as spaghetti with a yarn headpiece and the other holding a cardboard pizza prop during a dress-up event

Overview

Languages provide opportunities for students to understand themselves as communicators by communicating in the target language and understanding the relationship between language, culture, and their learning.

Students participating in a group activity, sitting together indoors with hands raised while a scooter is displayed at the centre of the space

Primary school students dressed in creative food-themed costumes standing outdoors in a school setting.

Staff members standing together outdoors wearing themed costumes with novelty moustaches during a school event.