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.
