East Waikiki Primary School, in Cooloongup
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| East Waikiki PS is located in the suburb of Cooloongup in the seaside City of Rockingham, approximately 45km south of Perth. The school zone is encompassed within Ennis Ave, Grange Dve, Goongarrie Dve, Read St and Gnangara Dve. East Waikiki was established in 1987, commencing operations with an enrolment of 36 part-time pre-primary students and 149 primary students, a total of 185. By 1997 the school had experienced remarkable growth and peaked at 999 students. Since then enrolments have slowly declined and at the end of 2005 had decreased to 577 students comprised of: Kindergarten: 51 Pre-primary: 51 Primary: 475 The school has 58 staff comprising 34 teaching staff, 12 education assistants (including Special Needs Assistants) and 12 administrative, cleaning and gardening staff. The school's facilities include three teaching blocks including special purpose withdrawal areas, three demountable classrooms (one was taken at the end of 2005), two separate, well equipped and specially designed specialist Visual Arts and Performing Arts rooms, a Library/Resource Centre and two purpose built Kindergarten classrooms. An Administration Centre, undercover assembly area housing the school canteen which operates every day of the week and expansive ovals, playground, court and grassed areas round off an aesthetically appealing and very functional learning environment. East Waikiki offers outstanding specialist programmes which complement the students' comprehensive classroom learning programmes. Every primary student engages in specialist Physical Education, Indonesian, Music or Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Students' performances and artefacts in each of these areas have been successfully and spectacularly put on show in interschool sporting competitions, state drama competitions, school choir festivals and art exhibitions. Complementing students' classroom programmes are support programs in Mathematics and Language. Federal government funded Getting it Right: Numeracy and Getting it Right: Literacy specialist teachers collaborate with classroom teachers to offer additional support to teachers and our students at educational risk. Funding for the GiR: Literacy specialist teacher ceased at the end of 2005 and we have already budgeted to maintain this programme with our own funds and from within our own staffing allocation for 2006. The school is well resourced and via classroom and computer laboratory facilities offers students extensive opportunities to integrate technology into their learning. The school employs a Technician one day per week to support and maintain its growing and integrated technologies. The school has a proud tradition of providing an inclusive educational program for all students. The school's Education Support Unit is fully integrated into the mainstream classroom programme with support from the specialist Education Support staff. This unique approach has resulted in improved social and academic outcomes for all students and is a model of inclusivity that has drawn widespread praise from educators and parents. At East Waikiki we place great emphasis on the development of the values described in the WA Curriculum Framework. We are held in the highest regard for our strong commitment to the social, emotional and academic needs of our students and we work in close partnership with our students' carers to ensure that we achieve our vision of providing a high quality learning community in a happy and safe learning environment. | ||||
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