Nambrok Denison Primary School is a rural school situated approximately 20 kilometres from Rosedale, Sale, Heyfield and Maffra, in a predominately dairy farming area.
Our current enrolment of 88 students work between 5 classrooms.
While the base enrolment remains relatively stable, the student population can be transient, as our dairy farming families follow the available work.
Our staffing ratios consist of 1 Principal Class staff member, 6.6 F.
T.
E (Full Time Equivalent) teaching staff, 2.4 F.
T.
E Education Support staff, 1 (0.3) Student Welfare Worker and a cleaner.
The school's SFOE is 0.48.
Our school is extremely well supported by the local community.
We value the strong partnership between parents, students and staff, with a high level of parent participation in School Council, Parents Club, classroom support programs and social and fundraising activities.
Effective communication between school and home helps to support this partnership.
Local businesses substantially support our school, particularly for our school fundraising.
The school works in partnership with seven other rural schools, as part of the Sale Rural Cluster, to provide additional engaging programs, including student leadership development, MARC Van, school sporting days, and combined learning days where appropriate.
Teachers work with their colleagues from network schools on specific improvement projects.
Nambrok Denison Primary School prioritises enhancing student wellbeing by focusing on respectful and positive behaviours and relationships as reflected in our Student Attitude to School Survey results, which have achieved fantastic improvements over the past 4 years, with results higher than those of like schools.
Similarly, our Parent Survey results for the same time period demonstrate satisfaction outcomes in the top quartile for wellbeing, engagement and learning measures.
We ensure that all children in the school are working towards both academic and social success through the implementation of the School Wide Positive Behaviour Support for Engagement and Learning (SWPBS-EL) framework.
Our school values of Respect, Enjoy, Achieve and Learn lay the basis for our daily operation.
A consistent response process for student behaviour is enhanced by recognising, acknowledging and celebrating expected behaviours.
The clear teaching of social skills underpins our work.
Continuously improving learning outcomes is paramount for all at Nambrok Denison Primary School.
In 2020 our School Review celebrated our excellent improvement and results, creating higher targets and expectations for ongoing learning.
Our Early Years classrooms utilise a Synthetic Phonics program which has seen excellent results in student growth.
Spelling and Maths Mastery are utilised across the school from Year 1 to Year 6.
Every child from Year 1 to Year 6 participates in 30 minutes of direct spelling instruction daily.
This is complemented by our explicit teaching of Whole Language (Reading and Writing) within classrooms.
To further achieve Literacy and Numeracy goals for our students, teachers at NDPS are committed to meet weekly as a Professional Learning Community (PLC), to assess and analyse student performance data and plan for precise and personalised teaching in the classroom.
Intervention and extension for children requiring their learning trajectory to be accelerated or stretched is a primary focus of the PLC.
Teachers also provide each other with opportunities for professional growth, feedback and reflection regarding their teaching practices, through coaching and evidence-based peer observation inquiry processes.
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