John Palmer Public School was established in 2008 with a student group of 44 children. The last ten years has seen significant growth in the student population and the number of classes. The school has 33 classes and over 880 students. We also have 16 students in our Early Intervention support class. Fifty-seven percent of our students have a language background other than English, with 41 different language groups represented. Almost 20% of our students speak either Hindi or Punjabi at home. Significant numbers of other students regularly speak Indonesian, Dari, and Arabic. Our 2015-2017 School Plan was the first step in a six year process to transform learning based around Evidence Based Teaching strategies. The current 2018-2020 plan has a focus the consolidation of these strategies into a sustainable school wide system focused upon every student, every teacher and every leader improving every year. While school growth has slowed, changes to boundaries and a business case developed for a stage 2 build may see significant capital works in the near future.
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