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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

  • Michelle Conley Leading Teacher

  • Mason Argus, Learning Specialist

  • Bronwyn Huggard, Wellbeing Leader

  • Loz West- Education Support Manager

Our Teaching Teams are :

  • ​F/1 Rebecca Byrnes and Leanne Martin

  • 1/2 Eden Maunder and Heidi Pritchard

  • 3/4 Hannah Hoskin, Sam Sharpe and Breanna Russell

  • 5/6 Alex Peace, Ahmed AlHameli and Mason Argus

  • PE Jack McCormick

  • Yorta Yorta Language Annette Tricarico

  • STEM Michelle Conley

Our Education Support Teams are :

  • Cherrie Power, Business Manager

  • Jo Steen, Office Manager

  • Kerry Matthews, Family Liason Officer and office admin

Our Education Support Classroom Teams are :

  • F/1 Jorjia Dempster, Karl Koelman and Damon Sanders

  • 1/2 Cooper Hall and Lola Afolabi

  • 3/4 Chelsea Smith, Jayne Corso and Alla Duke

  • 5/6 Cass Ahmet, Ingrid Tarantino and Steph D'elia

  • Allrounder San Soakimi

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 consultants and additional leadership positions.

 

We have strong focuses on:

  • Instilling a love for reading and writing in our students

  • Providing our students with the best possible start through our Foundation Intensive program

  • Developing oral language 

  • Promoting student voice in a rich & engaging curriculum

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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, including Reading intervention programs at all year levels, our Foundation Intensive, and education support staff in each classroom. 

 

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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