At Bellaire Primary School we ‘Aim High’ to provide a secure, collaborative and challenging environment that supports all students in maximising their achievements by being active participants in driving their learning in preparation for life long success as proactive, global citizens.

These values are displayed throughout the whole school by our ‘Behaviours We Value’ trees. The trees are used to guide feedback for students, inclusive of student behaviour awards for modelling the behaviours we value.

Bellaire Primary School is located in the suburb of Highton in Geelong and students are drawn from both Highton and surrounding areas. In 2020 there were 27 home groups across 4 learning communities that work as four sub schools on the one campus. We have a leadership team that consists of our Principal, two Assistant Principals (Curriculum and Well-being) and two Leading Teachers working as instructional coaches in the learning communities, that includes on-going individual coaching for every teacher.

Bellaire Primary School is located in the suburb of Highton in Geelong and students are drawn from both Highton and surrounding areas. In 2020 there were 27 home groups across 4 learning communities that work as four sub schools on the one campus. We have a leadership team that consists of our Principal, two Assistant Principals (Curriculum and Well-being) and two Leading Teachers working as instructional coaches in the learning communities, that includes on-going individual coaching for every teacher.

Our communities existed of 5 Prep home groups, 9 Junior home groups working across two pods, 7 Middle home groups working across two pods and 6 Senior home groups working across two pods. The school also has a specialist precinct, existing of The Arts (Visual and Drama/Music), Physical Education, French, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, The Arts and Mathematics) and a well-resourced library. The school has experienced a steady enrolment over the past few years and had 627 students in 2019 with an equal gender balance of male and female students. The school also has a strong wellbeing focus offering a range of student’s wellbeing programs across all year levels, supported by a part time school funded Student Wellbeing worker.

Bellaire Primary School is a leading school in the innovation of education with an ‘Aim High’ approach. The development of learning spaces to facilitate personalised learning, engagement of students and the creation of learning communities has been a major focus. Established is our Whole School Learning Strategy focused on assessment, planning and teaching while involving students as active participants in their learning via goal setting and reflection. The school has also implemented a digital overlay in each learning community and specialist areas, developing professional knowledge and providing resources in a suite of technologies. This is inclusive of The One to the World (BYOD apple) program in Middles and Seniors, integration of media studios and theatrettes and access to a range of visual screen devices, a Google space etc. across the communities.

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