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Aitken Creek Primary School is located within the City of Hume, approximately 26 kilometres north of Melbourne. The area is under constant development and has become very urbanised over the last few years.
ACPS opened its doors at the start of the 2011 school year with a total population of 67 students from P-5. The school has attained a steady increase of enrolments since its opening and has a current enrolment of over 1000 students. Destination data shows that students come from 124 different schools, 47 of which are from interstate and 32 from overseas. Student characteristics are culturally diverse with 46 identified languages spoken at home other than English, with the majority being Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Assyrian and Sinhalese. Approximately 72% of the student population is identified as English as an Additional Language (EAL) with 48% of the student population attracting EAL funding support.
The school leadership and staffing profile evolves every year to address the growth and directly link with the School Strategic Plan priorities. The staffing profile has a mix of expertise however predominantly teaching staff are in the initial graduate years of teaching. Professional learning, coaching and induction processes have been instrumental in ensuring the development of the school culture and the school wide approach to teaching and learning.
Aitken Creek Primary School is a P-6 school located on Grevillea Street Craigieburn. Built under the new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) development, Aitken Creek Primary School is an excellent state of the art learning facility that brings together the best in contemporary educational design and promotes active student-centred learning through the creation of flexible, functional spaces. All teachers work in professional learning communities, framed around the FISO inquiry cycle. They collaborate in teaching teams so that the individual needs of their students are met. We uphold high expectations of all and provide an exciting and inclusive experience for staff, students and families.
Philosophy of Teaching and Learning
- Learning and development is a social, collaborative activity dependent on relationships
- Learning involves active participation, investigation, discovery and construction.
- Meaningful, authentic and relevant context is central to learning
- Motivation for learning is strongly dependent on the learner’s confidence in their potential
- Environments play a critical role in learning where ideas, values, attitudes and culture are mirrored within them.
School Vision
At Aitken Creek Primary School our students will achieve personal success in their learning and become responsible and productive citizens.
An environment that is caring, safe and supportive will be provided so that each student achieves their full potential.
Parents, students and staff are strongly encouraged to work together in partnership to ensure our students succeed.
The core beliefs that we base our work on are:
- Through effort everyone can succeed and personal achievements are celebrated.
- Active engagement as well as positive work habits and attitudes are essential to learning.
- Social skills are fundamental in the way we interact with each other.
School Values
The values which underpin the actions for the whole school community are:
Respect: Showing care and concern for ourselves, other people, property and our environment. Developing a sense of pride, self-esteem and personal identity.
Teamwork: Achieving success by working cooperatively with others to achieve common and personal goals.
Achievement: Setting goals, showing persistence and taking pride in our achievements.
Responsibility: Showing commitment to our learning by being accountable for our actions.
We embed the School Wide Positive Behaviour (SWPBS) framework that structures our student management, wellbeing and engagement processes and procedures.
Intent
We aim to offer a service to our students and their carers that is responsive and forward thinking, targeting student needs.
Our core business is to offer the most effective teaching and learning program, in a caring and supportive manner which focuses on the explicit teaching of skills and behaviors so that each child can be the best that then can be.
Our facilities and resources will be aligned to our core business and our priorities so that our educators are well equipped to offer the best service possible.
We endeavour to respond to concerns in a timely manner that is solution focused and were possible with mutually agreeable outcomes.
