Department of Education - Victoria

Taylors Lakes Primary School is one of the larger primary schools in the north western City of Brimbank.

Our school was established in 1989 and has grown from 169 students, peaked at 901 students in 1995, and has a current enrolment of 690.  

The school population is predominantly English speaking with a significant number of bi-lingual children.

The school is centrally located within the developed residential area of Taylors Lakes.  It shares a site with Taylors Lakes Secondary College and the Barbary Crescent Pre-School and this facilitates interaction between the secondary college and the pre-school.

Our priorities are Literacy and Numeracy, ICT and developing a strong Performance and Development Culture.

Our school promotes a strong and supportive learning environment with Student Welfare also being a high priority for our school.

 

Guiding Principles

Our school enjoys a strong reputation within the community.  There is a positive atmosphere nurtured by the school administration, enthusiastic staff, students and parents.

The community values high academic standards, the school's commitment to ensuring that all children are supported to reach their full potential and sensitivity to children's individual needs.  The school has developed an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect with shared educational responsibility between parents, teachers and students.

The school aims to deliver learning programs of excellence within which students achieve success and develop personal pride in their performance.

 

Curriculum

Taylors Lakes Primary School offers excellent comprehensive and sequential programs in the key learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, The Arts, Humanities, ICT, Health and Physical Education.

These programs are complimented by Instrumental Music, Camping and Student Welfare.

 

Our school is extremely well resourced in ICT and all classrooms possess an Interactive Whiteboard. Each classroom has at least four computers in it as well as access to a trolley with net books connected to it.  Our school's  ICT lab allows our students to receive extra opportunities to access computers and technology.

 

Facilities

The school facilities comprise permanent and relocatable buildings.  There are six quality permanent buildings comprising two separate blocks for Administration and Library and Art/Craft, Music and Physical Education.  There are three blocks of open plan classrooms that have excellent withdrawal, wet and storage areas.    A fourth permanent building houses a further seven classrooms.  Portable classrooms linked to the main buildings by concrete pathways and covered ways provide additional classroom spaces.  A Pre-school operates within the school grounds.

 

Our grounds are well developed and include gardens, seating, trees, additional grassed areas and three adventure playground areas, two asphalted basketball courts and the redeveloped oval provides for active sports and games.

 

Fully operational canteen and before/after school care programs and vacation care program operate out of the building that includes our school gymnasium.

 

Future Directions

Taylors Lakes Primary School is proud of its achievement in its brief history and looks forward with confidence to the challenges of the future. A culture of cooperation between parents and staff is well established with extremely high levels of satisfaction indicated in annual Parent Opinion Surveys.

 

We will continue to provide our students with a safe and attractive learning environment.  The school emphasises the development of sound literacy, numeracy and ICT skills and physical health and well being that will empower our students with the appropriate skills to cope with their future.

 

In the next 3 years our major priorities will be:

 

Student Welfare

Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

 

SC1    Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.

SC2    Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth. 

SC3    Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

SC4    Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.    

SC5    Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.