Occupation: Education and training

Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs

Reference: 1549935

Location Profile

Introduction

Brentwood Park Primary School is situated in the south-eastern growth corridor in the residential suburb Berwick. The school is well situated within the local community. The local pre-school and Kambrya College are adjacent on the school¿s northern and southern borders, respectively. A medical centre and the community centre are in close proximity. Brentwood Park Primary School has a current enrolment of1005 students.

Staff are committed to professional development to ensure the provision of high-quality programs at Brentwood Park Primary School. Personal professional development planning for teachers is consistent with school aspirations detailed in the School Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan.

Student Wellbeing is an intrinsic component of the ethos of Brentwood Park Primary School. Our student Codes of Conduct are unique and integral to the daily programs in each classroom, with the children being responsible for the design of these and class consequences, with the guidance of the teacher.

As a school, we are in the process of developing and implementing School-wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS), the evidence-based framework that helps schools build safe, inclusive, and positive environments by clearly teaching and reinforcing good behaviour with the key benefits of:

- Decreasing low-level classroom disruptions and bullying.
- Increasing the amount of time teachers can spend on actual instruction.
- Improving overall student attendance, safety, and academic performance.
- Fostering respectful, strong relationships between students and staff





SWPBS focuses on proactive systems that improve both social and academic outcomes. Accordingly, our school values are:

Respect

Responsibility

Persistence

Cooperation

Safety

Aligned with the SWPBS framework for Tier 1 instruction, Brentwood Park Primary School implementstheRespectful Relationships initiative, as bothwork together seamlessly to create a safe, supportive, and inclusive school culture.

Programs that encourage and develop positive interpersonal relationships also include:

The ¿Buddy¿ system.

Camps for Years 4, 5 and 6

Prep Transition

Within our learning and teaching programs, we maintain a strong focus on literacy and numeracy, complemented by an inquiry-based curriculum and a comprehensive specialist program which encompasses visual arts, performing arts, digital technologies, health and physical education, and Chinese Language and Culture. A Chinese sister school relationship was formalised in 2014 with Yangzhong Experimental School in Jiangsu Province, China, through a signed Memorandum of Understanding which promotes collaboration and annual reciprocal visitations by staff and students.

A rigorous benchmarking assessment schedule which is implemented biannually and ongoing formative assessment practices, informs our teaching and learning programs in the two key learning areas of literacy and numeracy and,



along with teacher observation and teacher judgement, ensures the teaching is targeted towards student learning needs. The Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM 2.0) is the framework for teaching practice.

Units of work, developed Foundation ¿ Year 6, are child centred and based on the inquiry learning model. These inquiry units cater for the history, geography and science areas of the Victorian Curriculum.

School programs are planned, implemented and reviewed for children according to their learning needs with differentiation being a core feature of our teaching and learning. In addition to our computer laboratory, each classroom is equipped with either an interactive whiteboard or flat screen television with apple TV which are well utilised

Our school provides a positive and challenging learning environment which supports improved learning for all children.

Facilities

The school has been architecturally designed with its central core accommodated in seven distinct buildings, connected by covered walkways. This core comprises an administration area; with staffroom and first aid room, a multi-media centre, eighteen contemporary carpeted classrooms; each with its own teacher resource room, a physical education facility, an art/craft facility, a performing arts centre; and canteen, STEM room and music room. A new pod facility has recently been added. Features of the classroom design are their flexibility in allowing connecting walls to be opened to facilitate team teaching approaches, if desirable, and the provision of additional student learning areas in the form of smaller adjoining rooms. Relocatable classroom units currently provide the re

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