Principal's Message

Welcome to our School Community

As Principal of Clayton South Primary School, I invite you to investigate our website and I hope you choose our school for your child’s / children’s exemplary 21^st Century education.  

Our school is a vibrant, inclusive learning community with a proactive family focus of more than twenty-five different nationalities. Since my appointment as Principal at the beginning of 2010, I have been excited by the diversity of programs provided to our multi-cultural community by an enthusiastic, caring and dedicated staff.

The Building Education Revolution (BER) multi-purpose building is a beautiful, modern facility that enhances our school. The building has a first class gym for physical education, a meeting area for weekly assemblies and PFA. We also have a very modern kitchen/dining room for our students with their teachers to cook vegetables grown in our kitchen garden program. In June, our 4 chooks will have their new home fenced in to protect them from the foxes and roaming cats! future Our beautiful  Hen House that has been built by Westall Secondary College Woodwork teacher.

Our students are encouraged to show respect and empathy that enhances a sense of family, community and international spirit. Through working together with our diverse community, interpersonal relationships focus on a sense of family and community that are our foundation of responsible citizenship and international understanding. Our school community support the development of our students to be positive people who respect the rights of others. We encourage our students to be inquirers, thinkers, communicators, risk-takers, knowledgeable, principled, caring, open-minded, well-balanced and reflective in all they do.

Our curriculum has a strong teaching and learning focus on improving student learning outcomes in Literacy and Numeracy with explicit teaching. Our dedicated staff provide students with learning that is targeted at your child’s level of understanding through rigorous assessment and data analysis.

Literacy and Numeracy Blocks have a whole class daily focus, followed by small group strategies that are open ended. This is all explicitly planned by the level teaching teams using interactive whiteboards in every classroom and individual netbooks in Middle and Senior School.   

Our students are engaged in child centred learning through structured Inquiry Curriculum for real life learning. Inquiry-Based Learning means to seek the truth, information, or knowledge by questioning. Individuals make sense of the world through the process of inquiry.

Clayton South Primary School has a bank of 4 computers in every classroom. Every classroom has an interactive whiteboard that is used extensively by the students and teachers.  They are fully networked and served by a multi-media file server.  Each computer has access to the Internet enabling global learning. We have a fully set up lab and every grade is taught by our ICT specialist. 

We offer our students a wide variety of programs that promote self esteem, resilience, pride in learning and social skills.

We provide:-           Mondays  Music program teaching keyboard and singing for Year 5/6

                                   Wednesdays Multicultural Sustainability Program with kitchen garden,

                                                            cooking and eating together

                                   Wednesday Book Club with Librarian teacher at lunchtime

                                   Tuesday and Thursday 8.30am Dance Club

                                   Thursdays 10 -12.00 noon & Friday 9.00 -11.00 Playgroup with Director

                                   Friday 1.30 -2.30 Kidzone doing chess, origarmi, scrapbooking & boardgames

At Clayton South Primary School we are:-

• ·        proactive home–school partnership as a community of learners
• ·        a culture of achieving personal excellence with a strong commitment to improvement
• ·        providing every student with global learning opportunities as a collaborative community
• ·        having  dedicated staff providing exemplary learning in every classroom

Please contact me to see our happy, challenging and engaged learning community at Clayton South Primary School.

Lynne Dickins

Principal

Please see our school calendar for dates on our School Tours