The Castlereagh Active Learning Space creates a learning rich environment for students who might rely on adults to provide activity rather than seeking it out on their own. Active Learning uses the natural movements or responses of the student, and turns them into purposeful activity.
Active Learning provides specialized sensory-based learning for students with significant and complex physical, sensory and learning needs.
Every Active Learning student has their own program designed by our accredited Active Learning Team in an environment that encourages learning, engagement and active participation in a task or activity. Each student learns from their own activities, experiences, games, and play. The philosophy of the approach is to give the child the opportunity to learn, and to step by step, achieve the pre-requisites that would enable them to learn at higher and higher levels.
Aligned to the Western Australian Curriculum, the Active Learning approach views the child ’s development holistically including motor skills, cognitive and sensory skills with a focus on social and emotional development.
Active Learning is an evidence-guided approach based on the work of the Danish educator
Dr Lilli Nielsen over forty years. For more information please visit the Lilliworks Active Learning Foundation
0-4 Active Learning Space
Each fortnight we open our Active Learning Space for an immersion into Active Learning for babies, young children and their parents over a 75-minute experience. Led by our Active Learning Coordinator, Georgina Cunningham, this session offers a warm friendly environment for parents wishing to learn how to engage their children in Active Learning at home.
Play involves repetition of experience, exploration, experimentation, and imitation