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At Overport Primary School our highest priority is your children!
We are keen to give your child the best start! Overport Primary School has an outstanding reputation within our community and offers engaging learning opportunities for your child’s development. We understand that each child is a unique individual and deserves the opportunity to flourish and meet their full potential. Our professional staff delivers engaging and inspiring curriculum programs to enrich each child’s education. They not only rejoice at the students’ achievements but encourage and support their efforts. Our curriculum programs are supported by a broad range of specialist areas: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Japanese, Health and Physical Education and Technology. Our Library is student focused and offers a central focus for literacy and inquiry to all students. Teachers have a strong focus on developing positive relationships to promote school connectedness for all students and have a genuine fondness for the children in their care. We believe that all children have the right to be protected within our environment. We promote wellbeing through a nurturing setting with clear expectations and embed all child safe standards. Our school encourages inclusion and tolerance and supports the democratic principles of Australia. Our Vision and Values can be found at the following link. Overport’ s building design is unique. It has a semi-open plan style environment that offers opportunities for students to develop independence, make connections with a broad range of other students and staff as well as working in a calm, air-conditioned, attractive setting. Our senior students are housed in the “Towerhill Learning Centre” which comprises eight learning spaces, Computer lab and open plan areas. This environment supports explicit teaching as well as many opportunities for our students to set personal learning goals with their teachers, therefore, having ownership of their own learning. Our preps are housed in a flexible learning area in the “Summit Learning Centre”. The “Summit Learning Centre” and the “Bayview Learning Centre” offer open yet flexible spaces for a range of teaching to suit all students’ needs. This provides an opportunity for the students to develop relationships with the prep team members as well as their own class teacher. Our middle school is housed in the “Hakea Learning Centre” which encompass our attractive portables. These classroom learning spaces are complemented by our beautiful state of the art Library, as well as our Visual Arts area, our Japanese Learning area, our Performing Arts rooms, and our STEM program, which comprises ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics’ as well as digital technology. The students have access to a large range of multimedia equipment including iPads, laptops, and a computer lab. All our air-conditioned classes have interactive televisions. Our children undertake Health and Physical Education each week as well as a weekly sporting session with the level. Our senior students are involved in interschool sports program with other local schools. Our Environmental Leaders work alongside the STEM program which has a focus on re- wilding the school grounds. This collaboration allows us to teach and embrace environmental awareness, offer students and school community ownership through a range of related garden areas such as our beautiful Indigenous Garden, Japanese garden and newest native garden beds. Through engagement in our vegetable gardening program, we promote sustainability approaches and a focus to further beautify the school support an engaging environment for our students. We have a fantastic community spirit where parents and teachers work together in our family centred environment. Our School Council oversees and guides school spending and governance. Our wonderful Parent and Friends Club undertakes a range of fundraising programs for targeted needs with the school and across the school such as ground development and supporting classroom. Enrolment: Currently we have enrolled 682 students. All schools have a designated neighbourhood boundary for their particular zone. You can establish if you are within our zone through the Find My School website at https://www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au/ If you would like a tour of the school, please refer to enrolments on this website for tour dates https://www.overport-ps.vic.edu.au/enrolment.html You may also contact us to make an appointment. A virtual tour is also on this website. For families with a Prep for 2025, keep up to date with our tour dates by visiting our page devoted to transition dates and information https://www.overport-ps.vic.edu.au/enrolment.html Out of Hours School Care Program: We are delighted to be able to offer before and after school care and a school holiday program for our students on our grounds through “Extend”. Those students and their families who are using the service have found it to be excellent and the staff very caring. Please contact Extend directly on 1300 366 437 or make an online booking click here. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming our local families to the school. Kind regards, Julie Gleeson Principal |
Julie Gleeson, Principal
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