Hayley Doyle – Principal
Swan Hill Primary School
IN 2022, Swan Hill Primary School has continued to be a very positive and rewarding place to learn and work.
We have worked hard to ensure our school is inclusive of every student and their individual needs.
We explicitly teach students how to be respectful of everyone’s differences, we embrace diversity and we’re really proud of the calm and welcoming learning environment we have created.
This year, our teachers have maintained a relentless focus on catering for the range of learning needs within their class.
Personal student learning goals have been developed, and teams of teachers, from the same year level, have planned together to design tasks to meet the needs of every student.
Our staff team are an amazingly positive and supportive bunch.
Our staff opinion survey results again indicated staff rate our school climate well above other similar and network schools.
We’ve been fortunate enough to have a reasonably stable staff, despite the significant staffing shortages being experienced across our area and beyond.
We have a happy staff and therefore happy kids.
Our students have performed really well in the academic and sporting arenas this year, with us having more students achieving results in the top two bands of national NAPLAN testing than our similar and network school comparison groups, in all subject areas.
We’ve also had a few sporting teams head to Melbourne for state level finals.
The reintroduction of school camps, following the pandemic has been fantastic. We have continued to offer lots of extra-curricula activities and opportunities for our students in 2022.
Swan Hill Primary School will experience an increase in student enrolments next year and we will have an additional classroom to accommodate this increase.
Our larger setting has enabled us to run a specialist subject program, taught by teachers who specialise in the each subject.
A weekly science lesson taught by a science teacher in a purpose-built science room is unique to Swan Hill Primary School, and not typically found in primary schools.
Next year, we will offer two additional specialist subjects – mental health and digital learning lessons. This year, the construction of a new inclusive playground has begun and this will be complete for the new school year, so we have lots to look forward to in 2023.
We wish our Grade 6 students all the very best for secondary school and beyond.
