Kingston Heath Primary school

The individual child’s needs are always first! We are a unique school as we are an authorized International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program school and we also offer the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. Our aim is to make each child’s stay at primary school a happy, rewarding and successful journey. Together we can achieve this aim – parents, staff and children- working in partnership towards agreed goals. We are proud of our school and the ‘family’ atmosphere that we have developed.

Kingston Heath Primary School was opened in 1976 with an open plan design consisting of three teaching and learning centres and a specialist wing, which includes a well-resourced Library, a Visual Arts and Crafts/Science & Technology Centre, a Canteen and a Performing Arts Centre. The buildings are established around a picturesque central courtyard.   This design allows flexible teaching and learning arrangements catering to all learning styles.  What a bonus!

The children are provided with an extensive curriculum with the focus on the needs of the individual child, in a collaborative and cooperative environment. Specialists programs enrich the curriculum, which is developed to deliver the best possible outcomes for all children in a safe, caring and nurturing environment. The academic growth and the well being of all students is our focus.

Our open plan teaching and learning centres structure allows for the cross fertilization of ideas within each of the levels and allows the classes to work collaboratively and cooperatively together, which occurs within the Inquiry Learning Units and specialist sessions. Our work spaces mirror modern society in that spaces are shared, as are ideas and the collaboration occurs within the class and across the level. It is indeed exciting to see the children sharing ideas, resources and working together to achieve the best possible outcomes. Education in the 21st Century is embracing the ‘open-plan’ design. We are one of the luckiest schools around as we already have the facilities that other schools are trying to achieve through re-modelling.