Eastwood Heights Public School

Eastwood Heights Public School is located in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The school has an enrolment of 453 students. The school takes pride in its richly diverse school community. Students from language backgrounds other than English form 65% of the school population with the main language groups being Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean. The school has a reputation in the community for being a welcoming school which provides strong academic programs balanced with an important emphasis on student wellbeing. The school prides itself on offering a broad, balanced curriculum that ensures both breadth and depth in students' learning. Learning encompasses the traditional disciplines, as well as fundamental skills of literacy and numeracy and a broader set of future-focussed skills that support students to become successful lifelong learners, confident and creative individuals, active and informed citizens.Staff hold high expectations for all students to make personal progress in their learning, while being supported in a safe and respectful learning environment. Our professional staff are always innovating, including integrating the latest technologies into classroom activities in ways that enrich the curriculum. A commitment to Quality Teaching underpins all our work. The school actively promotes education as a collaborative process and partners closely with parents/carers, students and the wider school community. Parents and carers participate in the school through the Parents' and Citizens' Association and its subcommittees, and through volunteering and supporting classroom activities as well as the school's band program, sporting and creative arts programs. The P&C is the school's key consultative body that represents the interests and views of the school's parents and carers. The P&C works closely with the school's leadership team in strategic planning and in maintaining up-to-date and evidence-based policies.The Student Representative Council actively organise and advocate for students to participate in broader school planning and activity. The school has an active Learning Support Team, whose key initiatives include a targeted English language learning program (for students from non-English speaking backgrounds). We offer a broad range of extracurricular activities and programs that target students' specific interest areas, including bands, dance groups, choirs, sporting groups and public speaking. Excellent facilities include a school hall, library, a tiered music room, a band room, a dedicated science room, a large oval and fitness track, an all-weather court, and a dedicated computer room and videoconferencing facilities. At Eastwood Heights Public School we aim: - To ensure all students are motivated to learn and experience success and progress through learning that is challenging and targeted to individual need, and which is situated in authentic and meaningful contexts. - To ensure all students have access to a deep but broad curriculum that emphasises both the 'big ideas' within traditional disciplines as well as cross-disciplinary understandings and skills to ensure students are prepared for the real-world complexity of the future. - To ensure staff and students are supported to reach their full potential as confident and creative learners through provision of a supportive and high quality learning environment. This incorporates a commitment to ongoing teacher professional learning and innovation in teaching, as well as to whole-school wellbeing and active student voice. - To build organisational and leadership capacity to ensure the school optimises opportunities as it adapts to broader systemic change. - To foster active and strategic collaborations with the school's broader community to share educational expertise and innovation to enrich the learning of staff and students.