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School Values

AIMS

Ballarat North Primary School promotes high achievement and success for all by working with students to:

  • Strive for personal excellence in all aspects of their education
  • Develop independence, self-motivation and the ability to work cooperatively with others
  • Become critical and creative thinkers with an enjoyment of learning
  • Build resilience and develop highly effective social skills
  • Show care and respect for themselves, others and the environment
  • Develop a sense of belonging and pride in their school and an awareness of their place within a global community

MISSION

To achieve our aims for students the school:

  • Provides a safe, caring and stimulating learning environment
  • Offers an engaging and challenging curriculum that caters for the diverse needs of all learners
  • Uses a range of effective and innovative teaching approaches
  • Adopts practices that enhance student wellbeing and promote positive relationships
  • Establishes cooperative learning partnerships with parents and the wider community
  • Has high expectations of all students

SCHOOL VALUES

Our core values are: care, respect, excellence and community.
We demonstrate:

  • Care by looking after ourselves, others and our environment
  • Respect by using manners and being kind in words and actions
  • Excellence by always giving our personal best
  • Community by everyone working together

LEARNING BEHAVIOURS

We have four learning behaviours that we focus on in our classrooms and specialist programs. These learning behaviours assist students to develop positive attitudes towards learning and strategies to enable them to achieve success.

Our four learning behaviours are: Be Organised, Be Persistent, Challenge Myself and Work Together.