ABOUT THE JUNIOR SCHOOL
Welcome to The Heights Junior School.
Through this web site
you will be able to have a taste of the wonderful learning opportunities
offered in the safe, supportive environment that is The Heights
Junior School.
The Heights Junior School is a campus of The Heights School (THS).
The Junior School offers pre-school to year 6 comprehensive education
with a focus on rigor, excellence and academic, creative and social
success for all.
Our values include:
- Hard work
- Respect for each other and ourselves
- Generosity
We are a site of high quality public education that is highly
sort after by families because they hear about what a successful
and supportive school we are, and they seek to give their children
the best educational opportunities available. A quality public
school education such as that available at THS is not only value
for money but offers students a holistic educational upbringing
that embeds values of tolerance and respect for diversity, excellence
and dignity. It also develops those essential life qualities of
resilience, individual and social responsibility, interdependence,
and a thirst for learning.
Our current priorities are:
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Retention
- Attendance
- Attainment of all students against curriculum standards
- Well-being of students with special needs
- Staff morale and well-being
- Use of ICTs to enhance student learning engagement
Our 2008 strategies to address these priorities are:
- Improve staff performance and accountability
- Develop more explicit teaching of reading and writing in the
early and middle primary years
- Address bullying and harassment directly through the curriculum,
and with a zero tolerance policy
- Investigate ways to improve the engagement of some groups of
boys in schooling
- Improve reporting procedures by using student achievement data
- Increase levels of student on-task behaviours with non-classroom
teachers
- Improve Junior School Buildings and physical environment
- Develop individual education plans for all attendance-risk
students
- Develop individual education plans for all Aboriginal students
- Develop a sustainable enrolment plan to limit enrolments to
within site capacity
- Improve student access to state of the art ICTs
The Junior School page has its own menu through which you can
access more specific information about Junior School programs and
achievements. However, as part of a larger educational environment
that is The Heights School, Junior School information can also
be found in other parts of the web site.
See:
Calendar of Events for
dates and events of significance to Junior School, students and
their families.
About the School for
information about uniform, fees, policies, annual report, parent
involvement, students at risk, indigenous students, school
resource centre, and students of language backgrounds other than
English.
R-12 Programs for
information about out of school hours care, student governance,
debating, school sports.
Contact for access to details of
all current staff and points of contact for the school.
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