St. Peter's Primary School Competitors

As a Catholic Community, we aspire to lead in faith, guide with love and inspire through learning. Take courage, it is I…Be not afraid - Matthew 14:27 With a focus on Christ at the centre of our learning. Our aim is to ensure that our students become successful life-long learners, ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century. What this means is that whatever new situation or environment our students find themselves in, in the future, they will feel confident in their ability to learn new knowledge and skills. This confidence in their ability to learn is acquired in an environment where they will be stimulated to question and inquire, be asked to practise, be given feedback, encouraged to take risks and challenged to take responsibility for their learning so they can become the best person they can be. As a Catholic school we have a strong belief in the dignity of each child in our care, because each one of us is made in the image of God, this gives us a framework for how we educate, how we provide discipline and how we provide support and pastoral care for our students. We want our students to develop all their gifts, achieve their full potential, so we provide many opportunities for them to develop, not only in the core areas of literacy and numeracy, but also in areas of the Arts, Technology, Languages, Humanities, Sciences, Health and Physical Education. A holistic approach to education is what we provide and we believe this prepares students successfully for life after school. Ensuring that they have both the knowledge and skills, such as, communication, teamwork, critical thinking, technology use and problem solving which will allow them to adapt to an ever changing world.

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 ...

Aspendale Primary School has been educating the children of Aspendale and surrounding communities for nearly 90 years. Proud of our successful past, we are also firmly focused on our mission - to equip every child in our care with the skills, knowledge and social competencies for a rewarding future in the 21st century. Whilst growing each year, Aspendale Primary remains a comparatively smaller school within the wider area. As such we are uniquely positioned to offer 'the best of both worlds', large and small: Our students learn in a smaller more personalised school environment yet have access to afull and outstanding range of programs which focus on literacy, numeracy, thinking skills and student well being, extending and enriching the individual abilities and needs of each student across all areas of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. Our students play in a safe, attractive and stimulating outdoor environment: expansive, secure grounds, well-grassed and spacious playing fields, landscaped gardens, extensive play equipment, basketball/netball courts, a football oval and more. An outdoor environment conducive to cooperative play and social development,providing room to play a range of lunchtime ball games yet with ample shaded areas available for passive recreation also. Our students benefit from the use of outstanding indoor facilities which are simply second to none in a primary school environment, including a full size Physical Education Hall/Gymnasium, Performing Arts facilities complete with stage, curtains, sound and lighting, well resourced classrooms with networked computers across the school, all accommodating an ever-growing range of curriculum and enrichment programs. A full range of Specialist Programs includes Physical Education, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Japanese and Individual Needs. Our staff teach and plan in small and innovative professional teams, they know each other's children as well as their own, and easily share the nurturing and development of all children across their ...