Weeden Heights Primary School
Weeden Heights Elementary School established in 1980, is located within Vermont South on the border of the City of Monash and the City of Whitehorse. It is situated in a beautiful location the school is surrounded by vast gardens with native trees as well as peaceful, suburban streets far from the hustle and bustle of major roads. Weeden Heights offers a safe comfortable, safe, and beautiful setting with superb facilities.
It has an long-standing track record of academic excellence. It has a history of offering a curriculum that is differentiated that accommodates every student. Teachers provide a personalized curriculum for all students. While the school offers an extensive and varied range of programs and activities in every area of education, Literacy and Numeracy remain the main priority.
The opportunities for children to learn are further enhanced with the wide and varied range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities like those offered by the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, International School to School Experience (ISSE) exchange program as well as debating, choir and public speaking and program for leadership. Tennis lessons, swimming lessons instrumental music lessons Chess Club, Tournament of the Minds, camping Program Musical productions, and other academic competitions that are held outside of the school.
Weeden Heights is an environment where every child is valued, acknowledged and encouraged to achieve their goals.
For a personalised tour at a time which suits you please contact them on [email protected] or 9802 0663.
It is a blessing to have Weeden Heights Elementary School is a school that has an extremely strong community support. Parents’ involvement in the students’ learning as well as the care of the school’s facilities is a key characteristic at the school. A supportive and active School Council works cohesively to ensure that the school provides high-quality educational opportunities to all students.
Digital Technologies
In Weeden Heights Elementary School, they are committed to digital technology and are committed to continual improvement, while aiming to equip our students with most recent technology to help them prepare for their future and beyond. Digital Technologies forms a part of their daily routines for Literacy, Numeracy and inquiry Learning. This helps to facilitate and improve the learning of students.
Students have regularly, under supervision access to computers, laptops, desktops and iPads, as well as recording equipment and each classroom is equipped with an Interactive Whiteboard. Students have access to the computer laboratory on a regular basis or when the necessity arises. With a variety of laptops and i-pads in every class Students have plenty of access to conduct research on the internet and are able to show their understanding using digital technology. Teachers incorporate ICT in every lesson across all subjects and are supplied with strategies and instruction to keep current with the latest trends in student requirements for learning.
They are focused on delivering high-quality teaching practices, especially within the fields of literacy and Numeracy is not changing but the way they learn has, therefore they continue to develop and improving their teaching methods and classrooms to meet the needs of students of the present. They do not ask students to supply their own devices because they believe that technology should only be used only for legitimate purposes. Their goal is not to restrict the options that their students have throughout their day-to-day learning. All expressions of learning are supported through collaborative learning and extensive communication. A wide range of digital tools provides students through interactive tasks that stimulate greater inquiry and critical thinking, as well as creativity and curiosity. It also encourages the ability to learn independently and also a sense of the responsibility.
The students are instructed on Internet protocols and methods for sharing information, as well as Cybersafety and the responsibilities they face as citizens of the world. Students make use of responsible ICT and build positive attitudes toward ICT which encourages the pursuit of knowledge, personal development as well as collaboration and productivity.
Digital technologies are integrated into all aspects of the curriculum for primary schools so that skills are taught through the curriculum and are not taught as a separate unit. The use of applications is to aid in the improvement in the development of outcomes for learning across all curriculum areas as well as to allow students to participate in co-operative, collaborative and problem-solving exercises. Multimedia is especially beneficial to develop higher-order thinking abilities and also in creating diverse learning methods.
eSmart
Weeden Heights Primary School has been accredited as an eSmart school. The students have been taught how to be intelligent responsible, safe and secure when it comes to using technologies of information and communication and is made an accepted norm in the culture. Teachers, students and the school community are prepared to make the most of what technology available as well as be aware of the risks.
For their children to be proficient and secure users of the latest technology They are committed to implementing a program that informs their students about the secure, responsible and responsible use of the internet as well as social networks.
They have come up with an eSmart curriculum for teachers and students to use. It is one of the activities they offer in their daily Wellbeing program that runs at a year level. They offer information for parents via the school’s newsletter and offer opportunities for professional development for staff.
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