Principal’s Welcome

Our students are at the heart of everything we do! 

Welcome to Skye Primary School! We are a school where students feel safe, supported, and excited about learning. We’re proud of our strong sense of community and the positive, inclusive culture that makes Skye PS such a great place to learn and grow.

At Skye, our core values—Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, and Relationships—guide how we learn and interact every day. We want every child to develop confidence, curiosity, and a strong sense of belonging, both in our school and the world beyond.

We know that children thrive when they feel connected and supported, so wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do. Through structured routines, positive behaviour strategies, and a trauma-informed approach, we’ve created an environment where students feel secure and ready to engage in their learning.

When it comes to learning, we focus on getting the foundations right. We take an Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) approach to teaching Literacy and Numeracy, ensuring students receive clear, structured lessons that build their skills progressively. This evidence-based approach helps all students, no matter their starting point, to develop confidence and mastery in key learning areas.

Our teachers work closely together, using student data and ongoing professional learning to continuously improve their teaching. Collaboration is a big part of our school culture—we know that when we work as a team, our students benefit the most.

We’re also fortunate to have fantastic facilities, including a modern gym, music room, library, and a revitalised STEAM centre, all designed to give students the best opportunities to explore, create, and grow.

Families are a huge part of our school community, and we love working together to support each child’s learning journey. We welcome you to visit, take a tour, and experience the wonderful community at Skye PS.

Tim Bernau

Principal

A School with a Semi-Rural Feel

Skye Primary School offers our community a school with a strong community ‘semi-rural feel’ to your child’s primary schooling years.

Vibrant and Active Prep Learning Area

Our vibrant and active Prep Learning Area makes for the perfect learning environment for your child’s first year at primary school.

Our school promotes strong, caring and positive relationships, priding ourselves in providing a safe, supportive and inclusive school environment for all students. We focus on building a positive school climate where our prep students are involved in early learning that promotes development of self-management, awareness, empathy, resilience, pride in self and positive relationship skills.

We encourage and welcome strong parent and family partnerships between home and school that create a support network for each individual student’s learning, wellbeing and engagement.

Separate Prep Playground – we also have a secure prep-student-only outdoor playground / learning area that supports our new preps with active hands-on learning activities, and also in their early transition to primary school in a safe and secure play area. The prep playground includes a prep climbing frame and slide, a sandpit, a pirate ship, and surrounding gardens that all of our preps help to plant out and maintain together as a community.

Modern Teaching and Learning Spaces

Skye Primary School has excellent learning and teaching spaces within our school that allow for high level learning. We are a caring, friendly and welcoming school that encourages and supports the growth of each and every child.

Our learning environments provide a safe and secure environment for every child, and dynamic learning and teaching that promotes high level literacy and numeracy skills, critical thinking, creativity and individuality within a balanced and comprehensive curriculum. Catering for each and every child’s social, emotional and academic learning.

Our teachers are versatile in their use of learning spaces to support student learning. Classrooms are equipped with digital learning resources and students and teachers utilise these resources across all curriculum areas including through literacy, numeracy and inquiry learning.

Large Open Playground Spaces

We boast generous and spacious outdoor areas – with an abundance of space for our students to enjoy healthy relationships with each other and play. Our facilities are well maintained and attractive, with our school continually working hard to seek improvements that will further enhance our school ground facilities.

Our playground facilities include 

• 2 basketball court areas
• Football oval
• 2 junior playgrounds
• 2 x 3 – 6 playgrounds
• Extensive hardcourt areas for play
• Quiet seated sails area
• Brand new junior sandpit
• Developing soccer field to be completed end 2018

Our students are lucky to have plenty of places to play around our school grounds.