Yes. However, as Kindergarten is not compulsory, if you live in our intake area you must enrol your child before July 25th 2025 to secure a place in Kindy for 2026. Any enrolments after this date will gain a place if we are not full. If we are full, your child will be placed on a waitlist or you are welcome to apply for enrolment at another local school if they are not full.
Yes. The choices are: Monday, Tuesday & alternate Wednesdays and the other group is Thursday, Friday & alternate Wednesdays. When we send out enrolment letters, you will be able to select your preferred days. We will do our best to accommodate you, wherever possible.
Substantial research by Professor John Hattie, detailed in his “Visible Learning” books, has identified the attributes and strategies that make the most impact on student learning. Homework in primary school makes negligible impact to student learning and progress. It matters far more that quality teaching happens in every classroom.
We will expect children to read every day at home – the more the better! In the early years, daily practice in blending sounds to read is extremely valuable and we will be encouraging this. At times, children will be asked to finish off work at home that they did not complete during lesson time. Teachers may also ask children to do a little research or investigation at home about a topic they will be exploring the next day.
Our school commences at 8:30am and finishes at 2:30pm. This will, in part, assist in managing the traffic congestion with neighbouring schools.
Yes. We use a high quality approach to teaching literacy that is informed by research evidence on what works best and has the greatest impact on student learning. Our teachers use explicit instruction to ensure our students develop the necessary skills in oral language, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension to be successful and learn at high levels. We draw on the science of teaching reading to inform our practice and use the very successful ‘Talk 4 Writing’ program across the school.
Our approach to teaching mathematics is just as rigorous. We want our students to love learning mathematics and engage in challenging activities to ensure they build a rich understanding of concepts. We have a focus on fixing misconceptions, and teaching through complex, unfamiliar problems.
As a new school, we are provided with a substantial Establishment Grant which allows us to purchase resources and equipment needed for a quality learning program and environment for our foundation students. We aim to provide outstanding opportunities in learning and enrichment for our foundation students from the outset.
We have specialist programs in Physical Education, Music/Performing Arts, Visual Arts, STEM, and Philosophy. Our language program is Auslan.
Yes, children are tested in Year 4 by our Music and Performing Arts Specialist Teacher who is responsible for the management of the program in our school.
The composition of classes is always dependent on the number of students who are enrolled in any one year level. Where possible, we aim to have one year level per class. However, if there are not enough students to fill a class from one year level, it is filled with students from the next year level. Schools are funded based on the total number of students enrolled and not how many in each year level.
School buildings are planned based on the demographics of the suburb, now and in the future, using Census data. Transportable classrooms are planned to accommodate future growth in primary-aged children. As these children grow and move to high school, the demographics of the suburb shift, and these classrooms are not needed and can be removed. Permanent classrooms are built to match stable student numbers.
No. Our school will have an ICT purchasing plan for the next three years to provide digital devices for our students to use at school.
Our school uses Compass and Seesaw to communicate important messages, student progress and achievement, and share school celebrations with families and our wider school community. Parents need to download the Compass app to their phone and then connect to our school. You will be able to send through absentee notes and receive your children’s reports through Compass. Seesaw is a digital portfolio where teachers will share photos, work samples, and notices with you. The app is downloaded to your phone or iPad. We will also have a whole school newsletter published the week after each assembly.
We staff our school based on the number of student enrolments and the recommended maximum class sizes. Kindy classes have a maximum of 20 students per class with one teacher and an Education Assistant. Pre-Primary classes have a recommended maximum of 27 students with one teacher and one Education Assistant. Year 1 to 3 classes have a recommended maximum of 24 students and Year 4 to 6 classes are 32 students. There is no provision for Education Assistants in Year 1 to 6 classes, unless a student has a diagnosed disability and attracts funding for a part-time assistant to support the class teacher.
Our school has a Traffic Management Plan in place. Students will be encouraged to walk or ride to school wherever possible. We will be applying for a crosswalk. We need to complete a pedestrian and car survey to be submitted at the same time.
The school will have a boundary fence and the gates will be locked from 9am until 2:15pm.
If students are identified as having severe allergies to certain foods, we will ask families to refrain from sending products containing those foods to school eg. Nut allergy. However, schools cannot guarantee they are a “Nut Free Zone” as they rely on the cooperation of families to adhere to our requests. All staff will be trained in using epipens, if they have not previously completed the training. We will have a Health & Wellbeing Policy in place to outline our procedures.
