At Wallaroo, we are proud of our work as part of the greater Hastings community.
Our vision is to promote a positive school culture that is built upon high expectations and excellence in teaching and learning. We deliver an engaging curriculum at each student’s point of need, to prepare them for lifelong learning where creativity, risk taking, resilience and problem solving are key features in producing responsible citizens of the local and global community.
What does this mean?
Our focus is to ensure our students are supported to grow and develop to be respectful, responsible, resilient and motivated learners and that they are empowered socially, emotionally and academically to become the greatest version of themselves.
Our School Values:
‘Be Safe’, ‘Be Respectful’ and ‘Be Your Best’, sit at the forefront of our teaching and learning. Our school values are explicitly taught school wide and sit within our behaviour curriculum, providing our students with clear expectations and opportunities to participate and grow emotionally and socially.
We offer a wide range of learning opportunities including:
- Technology in every classroom
- Interactive TVs in all Prep to 6 Classrooms.
- Engaging mathematics curriculum
- Intensive focus on literacy; including a strong and entrenched use of synthetic phonics to provide students with rich and evidence driven opportunities to learn to read and spell.
- Specialist programs in Physical Education, Visual and Performing Arts, Music, AUSLAN and Library.
- A range of Excursions and Incursions (Prep-6)
- Spacious classrooms, with small student numbers in each grade
- 2 tennis / basketball courts
We have strong community links which include:
- An active school council and parent fundraising committee
- A strong partnership with Western Port Secondary College
- Committed community volunteers to support literacy, numeracy and mentoring of students.
- Growing partnerships with our feeder preschools.
I invite you to come and have a tour of our small and welcoming school.
Thank you for considering Wallaroo Primary School.
Jenny Brennan
Principal