Department of Education - Victoria

The core purpose of Somerville Primary School is to create a caring, engaging, and inspiring environment where all students learn and fulfil their potential academically, socially, emotionally, and physically, to become responsible lifelong learners in an ever-changing world. This is encapsulated by our Mission Statement `Inspiring Excellence in Education, Every Student, Every Time'. 

Our learning community works together to create an environment that challenges and supports our students to thrive and contribute to our world by valuing; respect, confidence, getting along, organisation, persistence, resilience, inquiry, innovation, excellence, self-responsibility, lifelong learning, collaboration, diversity, global citizenship, and environmental awareness. 

Our school provides an attractive, safe and stimulating environment in a semi-rural setting for approximately 400 students. Many parents choose to bring their children to Somerville PS as they like the small and more intimate feel the school engenders. Our school has 39 equivalent fulltime staff. 3 Principal Staff, 28 teaching staff and 11 educational support staff. 

Teaching and learning at Somerville Primary School is evidence based and much of our direction comes from research based programs. Our Instructional Model is based on explicit teaching. Somerville Primary School is a thriving Professional Learning Community (PLC) and our dedicated staff work closely in collaborative teams with a strong focus on student learning, results and collaboration. 

Our staff work together in collaborative teams focused on learning, they have a constant commitment to the school's shared mission, vision, values and goals, collective inquiry, action orientation, continuous improvement and results orientation. 

Above all else we want our students to feel happy and supported throughout their learning journey to become active members of our community and love learning

 

SC1    Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.

SC2    Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth. 

SC3    Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

SC4    Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.    

SC5    Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.