AddressSt Kilda Park Primary School, founded in 1882, is a highly popular inner-suburban bay side school located on Fitzroy Street, St Kilda at the southern tip of Albert Park. St Kilda is a diverse neighbourhood with a high population density.
As of November 2022, our student population is 330.
The school facilities include the original 1882 two storey brick building along with additional buildings and facilities that have been added in the subsequent 140 years which include flexible teaching spaces, a library, multipurpose centre and specialist teaching spaces including a kitchen garden and kitchen.
The school works closely with Parks Victoria to utilise adjoining ovals and parkland during the school day to complement its existing play areas and to increase opportunities for physical activity and sports.
The school operates a Designated Neighbourhood Zone, which allows us to manage the numbers of new enrolments, and means our students live in close proximity to the school.
All staff members operate with a strong emphasis on collaborative planning and teaching to maximise personalisation in learning and share expertise.
The school¿s staffing profile consists of 15 classroom teaching positions and four specialist positions. We have additional teachers who provide tutoring and intervention for targeted students. There are two Assistant Principals and a Principal, a Business Manager and an Office Manager. There are six Integration Aides. Recently we have engaged a Speech Therapist, an Occupational Therapist and a Counsellor to support our students through the Disability Inclusion Initiative.
The school community has a commitment to Visual and Performing Arts and an enriching Italian program that extends into the school¿s curriculum. Our Year Three and Four students are involved in an extensive Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
Our vision is to create a challenging learning community where students strive to be curious and creative thinkers. We build a progressive and nurturing culture underpinned by kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
Four core values guide community life, teaching, and learning at St Kilda Park Primary School.
These values are reflected in all aspects of school life and contribute to a sense of common purpose within the school community.
· Our school value of Resilience means persistence, courage, a growth mindset, staying positive, an understanding that struggle and mistakes are an important part of the learning process, and flexibility.
Our community demonstrate this value when we seek out challenges, try new things, demonstrate a growth mindset, have a sense of humour, collaborate, step out of our comfort zones, solve minor problems independently and seek alternatives.
· Kindness means respect, caring, empathy, support for others, honesty, and celebrating diversity.
We demonstrate kindness when we accept and include others, take turns & share, apologise, show empathy & good manners, care for our environment & belongings, are welcoming & encouraging, and value difference. We communicate openly.
· Creativity means individuality, imagination, originality, demonstrating initiative, persistence, problem-solving and thinking `Outside of the Box¿.
We are Creative when we express ourselves through arts and creative activities, struggle and make mistakes in our learning, when we find imaginative solutions to problems and when we collaborate and engage in meaningful discussion and dialogue.
· Curiosity means questioning, higher-order and critical thinking, hard work, seeking and providing feedback and student agency and voice.
We show curiosity when we ask questions and challenge each other, collaborate, explain & reflect, when we are exploring and taking risks, seeking out challenges and by pursuing passions and interests.
Amongst a range of ideals we value student voice, teachers being addressed by first names, leadership opportunities for all students and no school uniform.
The school¿s wider community is actively involved in school life to ensure that individual backgrounds and experiences are acknowledged and affirmed. Parent participation is encouraged and welcomed in many different ways.
Relationships in the school community underpin everything and enable us to build a community of continuous learners.
A key component of St Kilda Park¿s approach is building a positive culture through a primary prevention focus that underpins student wellbeing. The framework teaches positive behaviours, Restorative Practices and the use of logical consequences to address appropriate and inappropriate behaviour. The use of Risk Assessment and Management Process (RAMP) builds capacity for pastoral care for early intervention of students at risk. Our positive school culture is predicated on student engagement being the basis for learning.
A professional learning community of life-long learners facilitates the building of respectful relationships, a deep understanding of pedagogy and improved teaching and learning practice. An inclusive and engaging curriculum incorporating the Victorian Curriculum to ensure that teaching and learning practice is in line with the needs of 21st-Century learners.
