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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. 

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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. 

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Our Leadership Team is comprised of:

  • Eron Chapman,  Principal

  • Tim Davis, Assistant Principal

  • Michelle Conley, Leading Teacher 

  • Melinda Brodie, Early Years Leader

  • Bronwyn Huggard, Wellbeing Leader

  • Jack McCormick- Mathematics Leader

  • Rebecca Byrnes- Junior Literacy Learning Specialst

Our School Teaching Teams are :

  • ​Foundation Breanna Russell

  • 1/2 Eden Maunder, Lara Wayman and Rebecca Byrnes

  • 3/4 Hannah Hoskin, Natasha Goldberg and Heather Munro

  • 5/6 Alex Peace, Ahmed AlHameli and Bec Cahill

  • PE Jack McCormick

  • Yorta Yorta Language Annette Tricarico

  • STEM Michelle Conley

  • ART Nadia Rullo

Our Education Support Teams are :

  • Cherrie Power, Business Manager

  • Jo Steen, Office Manager

  • Kerry Matthews, Family Liason Officer and office admin

Our Education Support Teams is :

 Jorjia Dempster, Karl Koelman, Damon Sanders, Cooper Hall, Lola Afolabi, Chelsea Smith, Jayne Corso, Alla Duke, Tayla Saunders , Kahly McCabe, Ingrid Tarantino, Charlie Lloyd, San Soakimi

Our Kinder Team is

Melinda Brodie

Amber Sanders

Naomi Clark

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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.  

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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! 

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Additional supports for students & families

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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.  

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