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Form of workHarvest Home Primary School is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) School that opened in 2017. Under the PPP model, the school is designed, constructed, and maintained by the private sector to high contractual standards over 25 years, allowing Principals and teachers to focus on student learning, rather than asset management. The school is located on Harvest Home Road, Epping in the City of Whittlesea. The school has a total of 1026 enrolments with over 100 staff, including 4 principal class.
The modern facilities provide a contemporary educational design that promotes active student-centred learning through the creation of technology rich, adaptable and functional learning environments. In addition, the purposeful use of digital technologies is embraced as the school has a BYOD program that enhances learning experiences in a flexible and innovative manner. Through this approach, students are empowered to think `beyond their own context¿ which enables them to be develop as `global citizens¿.
The school has been designed with a strong emphasis on community connections and partnerships, with a `Community Hub¿ that encourages community use and engagement. A full-size Stadium, Performing Arts studio, Staff Professional Learning Centre, and STEAM Centre, that provide students and teachers with facilities that are reflective of 21st Century design, pedagogy, and learning.
All teachers and students are in collaborative Learning Communities that create flexible teaching options to better cater for the individual needs of all students. The teachers work in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that use an inquiry focus to drive planning, instruction, wellbeing, inclusion, and outcomes. All teachers adopt and display a shared responsibility for every student within each Learning Community. In 2022, Harvest Home PS became a PLC link school to support schools with structured collaboration and practice-sharing to spread best-practice through the system. The Victorian Curriculum is embedded into the teaching and learning program, with strategies, including the use of the HHPS Learner Dispositions, that encourage all students to have high standards of themselves, their peers, their work, and to always produce their best in a positive, engaging, and inclusive climate.
The school has exemplary programs and is seen as a prominent school in the area of School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) and Respectful Relationships, which are both underpinned with a Positive Climate Training Centre. Other programs also include STEAM, Sports, Literacy and Numeracy, together with the Arts. All students participate in the Specialists subjects of Physical Education, Visual Art, Science, STEAM, Spanish, and Mindfulness.
The school provides access to an education of the highest quality for the young people of Epping. Students are engaged through stimulating, relevant and inspiring educational experiences that ignite a life-long passion for learning and a strong community connectedness. Harvest Home Primary School upholds high expectations for all with an emphasis on embedding its positive school culture.
