St James\u2019 Primary School provides quality opportunities in a professionally designed learning environment.<\/p>\n
Educators use research-informed instructional techniques ensuring the Victorian Curriculum is applied with deliberate and purposeful intent.<\/p>\n
Construction is well underway to the new visual and performing arts buildings, including an extension to the early learning spaces providing a nuanced balance between a \u2018play\u2019 based curriculum and formal academia.<\/p>\n
All students access extra curricula excursions and camps with senior students participating in numerous sporting events and enhancement such as robotics and coding. Families may also access extra private tuition in performing arts at school.<\/p>\n
St James\u2019 is not a place that numbs the mind or is dominated by concrete.<\/p>\n
The extensive \u2018green space\u2019 provides a sensual, emotional, and conscious connection to the land, air, and sky.<\/p>\n
A world where mud invites us to slide, where students can run and climb surrounded by trees and where they learn the perseverance, determination, and resilience needed in the complex world of today.<\/p>\n
Technology brings access to information that otherwise would not exist but when it turns into entertainment or becomes a substitute for experiencing reality then the adults have made a significant error in judgement.<\/p>\n
Technology at St James\u2019 is used sparingly overuse can have dire consequences.<\/p>\n
Success and flourishing at St James\u2019 begins with belonging and relationships. Children learn to work hard with subject specific knowledge and skills for deep understanding, proficiency and application.<\/p>\n
With learning and improvement as the goal, there is no need for motivational stickers, ribbons or student of the week.<\/p>\n
Achievement comes from effort, and though failure can be disappointing, it can be survived.<\/p>\n
At St James\u2019 children hear the adults in their lives shout out the same message; \u201cThe harder I practice, the better I\u2019ll be.\u201d<\/p>\n
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