Scarborough Public School

Scarborough Public School provides a quality, future-focussed public education for students from a cluster of Wollongong's Northern communities. As a small school with an average of 70 students, it caters for the needs of its local community but also draws some students from other areas who seek out the special features of the school. These features include very strong links with the parents and community, including an effective collaboration with our local Community of Schools (CoS). We offer strong educational opportunities in the arts and differentiated learning for students with a wide range of learning styles. The school provides a wide range of opportunities for parental involvement and participation as well as a very strong commitment to student wellbeing. Our parents have high expectations for their children across all key learning areas and Scarborough Public School strives to cater for those expectations. We deliver a wide range of quality opportunities and programs by complementing the committed efforts of our motivated teaching staff through extensive use of community expertise. This expertise includes; administrative staff, specialist music, gymnastics, art, drama and technology. We are a small school comprising of 3 full-time teachers, 2 part-time teachers, a Learning and Support Teacher (LaST), two office staff, and a School Learning and Support Officer (SLSO). As a school in a predominantly high socio-economic area, we are fortunate to be able to supplement our spending with funds from our generous and active P&C. In addition to our ongoing commitment to the Seacliff Community of Schools, we are a STEM Action Project school, mentoring 14 like-minded school communities in the delivery of authentic, project-based learning practices with a strong STEM focus. Our vision is future-focussed, bold and supported by research: - We will ensure that Scarborough Public School prepares learners to innovate, collaborate, think critically and creatively, enabling learners to see the big picture around them. - We will deliver flexible, project-based learning that embraces the concepts of social innovation, local culture and history, citizen science and design thinking with explicit, visible links to curriculum outcomes and strong literacy and numeracy foundations.