Piara Waters Primary School
Primary School of the Year – Government – Excellence Award
‘Creating Critical and Creative Lifelong Learners’ is the core vision underpinning Piara Waters Primary School’s approach to preparing children for the jobs of the future. Grounded in research, the school’s ‘Contemporary Learning Framework’ focuses on four key areas of engagement.
First, ‘Engaged Learners’ are those who collaborate, accept challenges, create, are community focused and are inspired. Second, ‘Engaged Teachers’ commit to teaching that is sequential, developmental and explicit. They demonstrate high levels of ‘collective teacher efficacy’, scaffold contemporary learning environments, and provide specific feedback on students’ learning. Third, ‘Engaged Leaders’ believe they are agents of change and leaders of learning. They strive for excellence, are adaptive and lead through data. Finally, ‘Engaged Parents’ are learning focused, encouraging and proactive partners with the school.
As a whole, the school’s ‘Contemporary Learning Framework’ serves as a culture to support its three priority areas of Literacy, Numeracy and ICT General Capabilities. Regular analysis of data provides stimulus for ‘disciplined dialogue’, enhancing teacher practice and improving student outcomes. The school’s performance data highlights significant student progress in all of these priority curriculum areas.
Piara Waters Primary School is a lighthouse school proudly supporting education professionals in achieving better student outcomes across the education system locally, nationally and globally.