East Bentleigh Primary School Information

East Bentleigh Primary School is located in East Bentleigh in the Southern Metropolitan Region. Our school is small enough to allow each student to be treated as an individual yet large enough to support a wide range of programs. Situated in a superb natural environment, East Bentleigh Primary School has abundant grassed areas, mature trees, views of Yarra Yarra Golf Course and plenty of open space nearby. The school grounds are developed and maintained largely by a small hardworking group of school community members and by means of working bees. At East Bentleigh Primary School we have two different streams - our "Mainstream" and our "Steiner stream. In what we call our "Mainstream" classes, the methodology followed is similar to other state primary schools - ie a mixture of traditional / conventional and some of the many new methodologies developed during the past few years. In the "Steiner" classes the Steiner style of teaching is followed. The two curriculum streams operate in parallel within the school and parents select which stream they would like their child to go in. Although we have different approaches in different classrooms, we are one school. Our two streams operate side by side and support one another. Our caring school community has shown that individuals with diverse philosophies can work together harmoniously. Tolerance is a key feature of our school community. Classes from the two streams play in the yard together, go on camps together, play interschool sport together and take part together in many special whole school activities. All the children at our school have the same goals - they have a choice of which path to take to reach those goals. We think it is great the way our children learn at such a young age that to be different is OK, that there is more than one way to go about things. Our education program encompasses all areas of the National Curriculum. By acknowledging and addressing the inter-relationship between curriculum programs we provide quality teaching and learning ...