SCHOOL VALUES

Stawell West Primary School’s mission is to develop in its students, staff and community a commitment to life-long learning, a passion for achievement, excellence, and an understanding that all individuals can contribute as successful, responsible citizens.

The Stawell West Primary School Community values:

• Honesty
• Fairness
• Responsibility
• Support (being kind, showing care and compassion)
• Cooperation
• Acceptance of differences (accepting, respecting, living with and finding the positive side of differences)
• Friendliness and inclusion (being friendly and socially responsible, including others in games, activities and conversations)
• Commitment (to learning, themselves and all that we do)

In order to achieve the best possible outcomes for our students we aim to:

• Provide a safe, welcoming and tolerant learning and teaching environment
• Create a positive, purposeful and stimulating learning environment that encourages personal responsibility and self-motivation and rewards personal and group achievement
• Provide planned, comprehensive, engaging curriculum programs that encompass all Victorian Curriculum Learning Areas with a particular emphasis given to literacy and numeracy
• Deliver curriculum programs in ways that enable students to set realistic, challenging goals for their own learning, which accommodate different learning needs and styles, and that develops critical and creative thinking and learning skills
• Encourage high levels of parental and community interest and participation in all aspects of school programing
• Ensure clear, timely and efficient consultative decision making and communication processes within the school and between the school and the community
• Employ management practices that foster strong staff morale, a commitment to professional growth, and support a focus on improving educational and social outcomes for students
• Ensure the efficient and strategic management of human, physical and financial resources to support the curriculum, environment and management goals of the school
• Provide learning activities that reflect relevant global and environmental awareness in all learning
• Integrate current ICT practices
• Foster positive relationships and interactions between students across all year levels
• Reflect on teaching and learning practices in order to maximise students learning potential.