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Form of workGuthridge Primary School is located in Sale, Gippsland, and is approximately 220 km east of Melbourne.
Enrolments in 2024 will be approximately 280 with a Student Family Occupation and Education (SFOE) index of 0.5070. Our classes comprising of Foundation-support, Foundation, and a mix of composite classes from Grade 1 to Grade 6.
At Guthridge Primary School we have high expectations of all our students and aim to provide an opportunity for each of them to develop as learners, now and in the future. All students have individual learning goals and targeted teaching at their point of need.
Guthridge has a Foundation-support class specifically designed to support the transition from kindergarten to school for children who need a settling year of school, after a year at kindergarten.
We have superior facilities to support all students in all domains. Our purpose built Fitness Centre accommodates all forms of ball and racquet sports. Our Swimming Program operates in our own enclosed, heated swimming pool with AustSwim qualified instructors. Our sporting facilities also include a synthetic sports field, complete with four lane running track and long jump pit. We have a football field and outdoor basketball, netball and down-ball courts for all ages.
At Guthridge, we promote positive and purposeful play to build healthy bodies and healthy brains. There are numerous research studies linking active play and academic success.
Students need to learn how to `play¿ just like academic aspects of education in order to develop in every way possible to be their best!
At Guthridge PS, we believe
¿Play allows children to develop their oral and functional language skills as well as expand their imagination and creativity,
¿Play helps children develop social skills, including conflict resolution skills and self-advocacy skills,
¿Play also helps children develop patience, a sense of belonging and essential communication skills.
At Guthridge Primary School, we positively promote positive play choices by offering many options and activities to choose from at recess and lunch play times. Our supervised Play is the Way activities include dance, lego, box construction, ball sports, skipping, bat tennis, board games, down ball, chess club.
Our students participate in Specialist classes in Art, Music, Physical Education, Auslan and Swimming. Additionally, our school provides Instrumental Tuition (for senior students) and annually, a group of students participate in the Victorian State School Spectacular.
Each year our Grade 6 students collaborate to create and perform a showstopper Musical Production filled with opportunities for the whole cohort to develop skills and shine through choreography, singing, dancing, acting, prop design, lighting, sound and film.
Guthridge Primary School has a well-established Program for Students with Disabilities. We use our Equity funding to provide additional supports and intervention to identified students with a philosophy of full inclusion in the classroom. Further to this, we have a well-established wellbeing team consisting of a Student Wellbeing Officer providing additional support to students and families three days a week, as well as highly experienced Education Support Staff providing Integration Aiding to identified students.
Additionally, the Department of Defence provide our school with funding to employ a Defence School Mentor to provide assistance and support to the children of Australian Defence Force members at our school.
Our Core Values are embedded in the language of our school and are very much the basis of our aspirations as life-long learners ¿ Show Respect. Have a Go. Keep Trying. Bounce Back and Work as a Team. Ultimately we aim collectively to ¿Be Our Best¿.
As part of our school-wide positive support approach to managing behaviour, we have also developed three expectations ¿ Be Respectful, Be Safe and Be Responsible; these make clear the behaviour choices and boundaries for students at Guthridge Primary School.
Guthridge Primary School is committed to promoting the safety, participation and empowerment of all children, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, vulnerable children and children with a disability.
