Enfield Primary School is located in the inner west of Sydney and is proudly built on Wangal Ngurra country. The school motto is 'Our Best Always.'
The current student enrolment is 250. The school is situated in a quiet residential area close to parks, playing fields and the local swimming pool. The school culture is one of connectedness, inclusion and belonging with students, staff, parents and the wider community working together to promote school excellence.
Our school is supported by a strong, vibrant and diverse multi-cultural community, with approximately 65% of the student population coming from a language background other than English. Approximately 2% of our students identify as Aboriginal and Torres Stratit Islander. Our learning environment reflects strong student wellbeing principles with an established whole school Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) and Smiling Mind mindfulness program in place.
The school also offers a wide range of opportunities for students in sport, technology, and creative and performing arts, enabling our students to excel through a range of different experiences.
Through our school planning, the school identified several areas that will assist our school to work towards improvement. These include:
- developing greater consistency in data driven practices to provide greater evidence of impact of data
- building teacher capacity to better meet student needs through specific differentiation
- implementation of explicit teaching practices that are underpinned by the What Works Best document
- promoting high expectations
The school has established systems and processes to support students with additional learning needs. These include referrals to the Learning Support Team (LST) and explicit and targeted small group intervention to meet individual needs. The school will continually monitor student performance and achievement data to determine areas of need and future teaching and learning. The school enjoys strong partnerships in learning with many areas of our local community including an active Parents and Citizens Association (P&C), the local council, local sporting and social clubs and agencies as well as the Sub Branch of the Enfield/Croydon Park RSL.
The Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction position is a leadership role dedicated to ensuring that literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills are embedded in curriculum and assessment; high quality teaching practices are enhanced; and the capabilities of middle leaders are strengthened in literacy and numeracy instruction. It shares the broader educational imperatives of the Assistant Principal position but with an explicit focus on the leadership of effective, evidence-based literacy and numeracy teaching and assessment practices for improved student learning outcomes across the curriculum.
The Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction provides high support and guidance to enhance teacher growth and development in literacy and numeracy and strengthens schoolwide instructional capabilities across the curriculum for middle and senior leaders.
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