Department of Education - Victoria

Newington Primary School is located in Newington, Ballarat, alongside Victoria Park.  The school has current enrolments of 278 students from Foundation to Year 6 and has 13 classes.

Our school is an International accredited school through the Department of Education to enrol international students. 

Our school's vision of Inspire, Inquire, Grow enables our school's goal for students to be global citizens. Also providing for all aspects of each childs academic, social, physical and emotional development to ensure that each child becomes the best he/she can be. We aim to develop engaged, resilient students with skills and attributes for lifelong learning. 

The school is structured in a number of learning units, Junior, Middle and Senior. There is a specialist unit to complement these structures. Our teachers work with parents and students with a philosophy of continuous improvement. Newington Primary School students are provided with the opportunity to engage in a range of specialist areas and extra-curricular activities such as student leadership, arts projects, physical education, environmental science, cooking, Japanese, Art as well as interschool sport competitions. 

Students engage with a range of methods for demonstrating their learning including audio visual, ICT, traditional debating and public speaking, writing genres and a range of presentation software. Our modern facilities maximise students' enjoyment of 21st century learning. We integrate information technologies with a high computer ratio, multimedia devices and interactive whiteboards. 

Newington Primary School has a strong wellbeing focus, making it a priority in the school. Throughout the school Zones of Regulation are implemented to assist in student success in emotional regulation. These are taught in correlation to the RRRRs and other wellbeing approaches taught in the school curriculum.  The school is engaged with the Federation University Provisional Psychologists as well as therapy dogs twice weekly to best meet the wellbeing needs of students.

Additional information can be found at http://www.newingtonps.vic.edu.au, or by contacting the school.

SC1    Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.

SC2    Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth. 

SC3    Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

SC4    Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.    

SC5    Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.