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Kingswood Primary School is a school of approximately 370 students, with 70% of enrolments coming from outside our immediate neighbourhood area. The school is located in an attractive, quiet residential area, with impressive grounds and facilities. There is strong commitment from School Council and an active Parents Club raising funds and building community spirit.
The school’s educational philosophy is based around the concept of laying the ‘Foundations for Success’ and making a ‘Positive Difference’ to the lives of every student. To achieve this, it is important to discover the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can discover their true passion. At Kingswood we infuse the Habits of Mind into the curriculum. Habits of Mind are dispositions that are skilfully and mindfully employed by intelligent people when confronted with problems, the solutions to which are not immediately apparent. Put in another way, they are how successful people go about using their minds well.
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Students, staff and parents uphold the school values:
1. We are here for the students
2. We are leaders in education
3. We thrive in a team culture
4. We are safe, friendly and organised
5. We engage our community
Visitors to the school often comment on how well-behaved and well-mannered our students are. |
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The school has newly renovated flexible teaching spaces allowing us to design a curriculum that meets the needs of the 21st Century Learner.
Students are grouped according to their ability levels as they learn literacy, numeracy and inquiry skills. We want our students to be informed and empowered through student voice and choice.
Kingswood’s academic standards are very high and teachers are supportive and highly capable.
The school has specialist teachers in the following programs:
• Language Other Than English (LOTE) - Japanese
• Visual Arts
• Performing Arts
• Physical Education and Sport
• Reading Recovery
• Numeracy/Literacy
Kingswood Primary School is committed to identifying gifted students through the Targeting Talent Program, so that their individual needs may be appropriately met. A range of learning and teaching strategies are utilized in the provision of extension and enrichment programs. The school has adopted a 'Positive Difference' approach in learning and has a strong focus on student engagement and providing for the 'whole' child.
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If you are looking for a school that is well resourced in technology, then Kingswood is well worth the visit.
Kingswood has the latest in technology such as laptops and 1:1 Macbook program, iPads and iTouches, digital cameras and interactive white boards in every classroom.
Plans are underway to create multimedia studio equipped with state-of-the-art technology so that students can show case their work on the big screen.
The school has a purpose build kitchen classroom to run the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. The kitchen garden provides healthy vegetables and fruits, these are placed on the harvest table for students to use during their cooking classes.
Our school grounds are outfitted with synthetic grass, the junior and senior playground have soft fall grass under the equipment, large covered sandpit for the students and two synthetic volleyball courts. Our gardens are well maintained and admired by all.
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Children are given opportunities to participate in extracurricular programs including: keyboarding program, guitar, chess club, choir, recorder, dance, tennis, karate, sporting clinics, running club and gymnastics program.
We have an Arts Festival to celebrate and display the talents of our students in the Visual and Performing Arts. Every year we have a school concert and our 'Kingwood Got Talent' competition is always a lot of fun and gives students the opportunity to shine on stage. |
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The school promotes healthy eating by providing a healthy canteen menu. The school currently has a program where we supply free fresh fruit to our young students.
We have established a community garden so that students can learn to grow vegetables.
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program promotes healthy eating habits. |
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