Middle Park State School is proudly an Independent Public School.
This allows us to provide the opportunities to our students to achieve higher productivity and better quality educational outcomes.
While remaining part of the state school system, we have embraced the additional autonomy to provide:
- Enhanced local governance Our school council approves and monitors our strategic direction, further strengthening collaborative local decision-making.
- Increased innovation As an Independent Public School, we are able to embrace innovation to maximise student learning outcomes by responding directly to our community needs.
- Locally tailored workforce Middle Park State School has been granted the autonomy for greater flexibility with staffing options through such means as direct recruitment and allocation of our staffing model.
- Increased financial flexibility Our school flexibly directs our budget to best meet our students' needs.
- Building for the future The ability to cut red tape, remove layers of management and give our local community a greater say in decision-making allows our school to formulate plans that best match the strategic vision for the school.
The end result is that this allows us to be more effective and accountable, respond better to local issues, promote greater community engagement, and ultimately and most importantly, achieve improved educational outcomes.
Reputation of high performance with a focus on:
- Fleming model of explicit teaching
- Reading to Learn
- Stephen Covey's 'Leader in Me'
- Differentiated teaching and learning
- Feedback
- Improvement agenda focusing on literacy and numeracy
- Professional development for teachers
- Moderation of learning samples and collaborative planning across year levels
A range of extra-curricular options including:
ICAS Competitions
- Instrumental music program including string ensembles and concert bands
- Choir
- Ukelele Club
- Dance Troupe
- Drama Club
- Interschool sporting competition
- Swim/Aquatic Program with qualified teachers in our own pool
- Camps from Years 4 to 6
- Excursions and incursions
Classrooms and other learning spaces resourced with:
- Interactive projectors
- Laptop pod in our library
- Desktop computers in our lab
- iPad pods in all Prep and Year 1 classrooms
- Printers
- Wireless connectivity
- Digital microscopes, recording microphones, robotics sets and a variety of other electronic equipment
Services to families including:
- P&C shop (uniforms) and tuckshop on site
- Outside Hours School Care
- Parent Information Sessions outside school hours
- Variety of payment options including BPOINT, internet banking, EFTPOS, by mail, phone or in person
- Chaplaincy program
Our school is a proud
member of the Happy School program
We value our staff and believe that the work we do is
important. Staff morale and wellbeing have a HUGE impact on student
achievement, relationships within our school and the successful implementation
of change. High stress levels have a negative impact and increase staff
absence. A happier staff leads to better results!
As members of the Happy School program each week we receive
a ready-to-use one page article to share with staff. The articles provide
professional development and practical strategies to improve staff wellbeing,
reduce stress, cope better with change, work effectively with others and engage
our students. The articles are written by experts, especially for staff in
schools.
The articles provide staff with:
- strategies to improve wellbeing and reduce stress
- skills to better use their time
- ability to develop a more positive attitude
- skills to work better with others
- ways to improve their work-life balance.
Over 600 schools across Australia, New Zealand and
internationally are members of the Happy School program.