Quakers Hill Public School

Quakers Hill Public School is a dynamic and caring learning community, which has been catering for families living in the school's drawing area since 1914. The school's banner statement 'innovation-excellence-success', and expectations 'safe, responsible, proud, learners', encapsulates what this outstanding place of learning is all about and is reflected in many programs and activities offered by the school, ensuring that every aspect of school life (academic, social, sporting, leadership and performing arts) are  catered for. Our banner statement is the school's reason for being; it is our ethos, our mantra. In 2014, Quakers Hill celebrated 100 years providing our students with exceptional learning opportunities. 100 years of innovation, excellence and success. 100 years of imagining the possibilities, believing in the possibilities and creating these possibilities. Quakers Hill not only serves to improve student learning outcomes and academic success, which is a given and evident through all external assessment results, but this beautiful school is also about providing for the well-being of the whole child. We as a staff and a community are committed to ensuring that each child's emotional intelligence and resilience are also catered for. What this means for our students is, that when things don't always go according to plan  our students have the emotional resilience to bounce back and continue to be the happy, altruistic individuals that they are. It means that our kiddies are be able to face life's challenges with strength of character and a positive outlook. We are committed to ensuring that our students enjoy coming to school and that they enjoy learning. Our core belief is that our school is built on innovation, excellence and success. This belief is evident in all that we do and achieve in every single classroom and across curricular and extra-curricular activities. The innovation, excellence, success was evident this year in terms of academic excellence through our outstanding NAPLAN and university test results. By all assessment measures and benchmarks, the students of Quakers Hill consistently perform at and above state average as indicated through NAPLAN results, university testing, school based assessment and the learning continuums. The teachers work tirelessly to ensure that this trend continues and that children are provided with high expectations and quality teaching embedded in all classrooms through a differentiated curriculum. Quakers Hill, a founding member of the Blacktown Leaning Community (BLC) since 1994, continues to take a proactive leadership role within this group. The BLC consists of 28 schools (principals and parent representatives) working together to provide students, staff and parents with quality programs, projects and professional learning opportunities. Outstanding educational outcomes are delivered through state of the art e-learning as this is vital in engaging our students and providing them with a stimulating modern environment in which to learn. Today's world is a digital world, changing rapidly, and we are committed to preparing all of our students for this world. As of 2014, the school has a 1:2 ratio of e-learning devices (tablets and netbooks), to students. I would encourage our local and wider community to visit the school's website, specifically the e-learning tab for a detailed description of the outstanding state of the art technology that is afforded to each student. The staff at Quakers Hill Public School is committed to a process of continuous improvement and self-evaluation to meet the ever changing needs of the school, the community and its students in order to remain at the cutting edge of education and learning. This is an expectation that as a school we have and place on ourselves to continue to challenge current practices for the betterment of our students.