About Us

Gowrie St Primary School serves a community of approximately 200 students and their families. 38% of our students identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and 14% speak English as an Additional Language. This diversity is something we are very proud of.

Gowrie St has a large staff of amazing adults - over 50 of them! We have many staff who have been at Gowrie St for a long time, along with some more recent additions to our team. All of our staff care immensely for our students, and prioritise forming strong relationships with them.

Our School Teaching Teams are :

Foundation Eden Maunder and Ella O'Donoghue
Grades 1/2 Breanna Russell, Hannah Hoskin and Nadia Rollo
Grade 3 Ahmed AlHameli and Harpreet Singh
Grade 4 Lara Wayman and Rebecca Byrnes
Grades 5/6 Alex Peace, Bec Cahill, Simone Pattison and Sam Sharpe
PE Jack McCormick
Yorta Yorta Language
STEM Michelle Conley
Junior Oral Langauge Kahly McCabe

Our Education Support Team are :

Cherrie Power, Business Manager
Jo Steen, Office Admin and Library
Kerry Matthews, Family Liason Officer and Office Admin
Chelsea Smith, Healthy Eating Program
Lisa Lynch Johnson Korrie Family Liason Officer, Culture Co-Ordinator and OSHC

Our Leadership Team is comprised of:

Eron Chapman, Principal
Tim Davis, Assistant Principal
Michelle Conley, Leading Teacher Disability Inclusion
Melinda Brodie, Early Years Leader
Bronwyn Huggard, Wellbeing Leader
Jack McCormick- Mathematics Leader
Rebecca Byrnes- Junior Literacy Learning Specialist

Our Classroom Education Support Teams is :

Jorjia Dempster, Karl Koelman, Alicia Collins, Ava Mahoney, Jayne Corso, Alla Duke, Ingrid Tarantino, Charlie Lloyd, Daisy Crilly, Kirsty Simpson, Tom Moylan, Holly Hamilton

Our Tutor Teams is :

Eachan Harrison, Kaitlyn Crowhurst, Sam Dodgson, Annette Ivory

Our Kinder Team is

Melinda Brodie

Amber Sanders

Naomi Clark

PRE SCHOOL INFORMATION

Excellence in teaching & learning

Fundamental to our students seizing life's opportuniites is excellent teaching & learning.

We are supporting our teachers to implement best practice that propels our students to improved outcomes - we have invested heavily in Literacy and Numeracy over the last few years

We have strong focuses on:

Learning the foundational skills for reading and writing
Providing our students with the best possible start through our program
Developing oral language
Promoting student voice in a rich & engaging curriculum
Ensuring students see themselves as capable learners and are in charge of their learning progress

A productive and positive learning environment

We prioritise providing a productive and positive learning environment for our students. Central to this is entrenching school wide positive behaviour supports. This includes a matrix that sets out the school's values and expected behaviours - we then set about explicitly teaching these to students and acknowledging the positive behaviours we see.

Our School's values of Determination, Excellence, Empathy and Pride underpin all of our work.

Finally, we focus on establishing strong relationships with all of our students - we really care for them!

Additional supports for students & families

Gowrie St has a long history of providing additional supports to students and families - we are commited to them being able to seize life's opportunities no matter the challenges.

We provide a range of learning interventions through our extensive tutoring program, education support staff in each classroom and student case management of learning progress.

We also provide some outstanding Wellbeing supports, with a large Wellbeing team and our amazing paediatric clinic and play therapy program.