our school | teaching and learning | parents | kindergarten | enrolment Our School Punchbowl is a small, family orientated school, situated in a suburb five kilometres from the centre of Launceston Tasmania in a lovely natural bush setting. It has an enrolment of 300. Grades Prep to Six are housed on the main campus. Kindergarten caters for approximately 40 children and is currently sited on a separate campus in Wentworth street prior to moving into our new building at the main school site at the beginning of 2008. What this results in is a climate and environment that
optimises the teaching, learning and playing conditions.
Children come to school prepared by their families for
success. Herein lies
the greatest challenge for the school.
How do we cater for those children who come to school already
successful? How
do we keep this tradition of excellence continuing? Our mission is to take charge of our culture by providing a
curriculum that strives for excellence and teaches children to act
autonomously. Punchbowl
as a school has embraced the Essential Learning Framework (EL’s),
Supportive School Communities Framework (SSC) and Information
Communication and Technology (ICT) as the vehicles to pursue
excellence. Our curriculum is built on the foundations of active
partnerships, thinking and communicating and has programs that
include experiences in all curriculum areas. Our curriculum is
designed to move children from being dependent to independent to
that of interdependence. Primarily
this is done by formally teaching the children how to take
responsibility for their own learning and behaviour.
Interdependence and resilience are the key attributes we wish
children to develop as a result of being educated at this school
besides being literate, numerate and computer literate.
ICT is one of the key areas by which we choose to teach
children to be worthwhile contributors to our Launceston society. Active Partnerships are pursued between children, the staff
and the parent community. Punchbowl
as an education community is characterised by excellent formal and
informal links and partnerships with its wider community – this is
through the Parents and Friends Association and the School Council. Paul
Robson Our main campus grounds.
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