Principal’s Welcome

Our students are at the heart of everything we do! 

Welcome to Skye Primary School! As a vibrant hub in the Skye community, we’re proud of what we offer and are optimistic about the future that lies ahead for our students.

At the heart of Skye PS are our core values: Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, and Relationships. These principles not only guide our daily operations but shape our positive school culture. They form the foundation that empowers our students to be active, meaningful contributors both within our walls and in the broader community.

Ensuring a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment is our top priority. By cultivating positive relationships and prioritising student wellbeing, we’ve created a setting where students are eager to learn and grow. Our structured routines and positive behaviour strategies further enhance our harmonious learning environment.

We’re driven by a clear goal: to prepare students to exit Skye PS as confident thinkers ready to embrace the world’s challenges. We pride ourselves on our comprehensive academic program, which includes explicit instruction in core areas such as Literacy and Numeracy. Our Inquiry-based approach across other curriculum areas, coupled with a wide range of engaging specialist and extra-curricular programs, ensures that our students not only acquire knowledge but also develop the essential skills and attitudes required for a rapidly changing world.

We believe in taking collective responsibility for student learning. Our team, comprised of dedicated professionals, thrives through collaboration within professional learning communities. Teachers are focused on continually refining their practice, using rigorous data analysis and peer observations to measure and reflect on their tangible impact on student learning.

We’re thrilled with our recent infrastructural enhancements completed in 2022. From a modern administration office to a state-of-the-art gymnasium, music room, and library, we offer a range of inspiring spaces for our students to learn and grow. Our refreshed STEAM centre stands as a testament to our forward-thinking approach while retaining the semi-rural charm that defines us.

Collaboration with families is key to our success. Recognising the vital role parents and the community play, we actively foster this partnership, believing that it amplifies the positive impact on our students’ educational journey.

To truly capture the essence of Skye PS, we invite you to visit. Please join us for a school tour or reach out for an individual appointment. It’ll be a pleasure to introduce you to our community and discuss your child’s education.

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.