Our Mission is to encourage children to achieve their individual academic and physical potentials within a comfortable and co-operative environment.
Curriculum
Rathdowney State School offers:
- Proven success for all students with its unique and innovative program for Prep to Year 3 in the school’s Early Learning Centre
- A strong emphasis on teaching the basics of literacy and numeracy
- The teaching of all eight key learning areas at all year levels
- Excellent support services for special needs
- A strong focus on catering for the needs of individual students
- Good home-school communication and parent involvement
- Swimming lessons for all students at least 3 times per week in the school’s pool
- Many opportunities to excel in a wide range of sports throughout the year
- Swimming and soccer clubs
- A strong focus on teaching values and responsible citizenship
- Productive partnerships with the wider community - the school fosters a strong sense of community
- Involvement in community events and competitions
- An enviable and comprehensive excursion policy – including heavily-subsidised annual camps for all students, city, beach, Sydney/Canberra and the snow
- Annual school musicals for all students from Prep –Year 6
- A historical and unique drum and fife band
- Student workshops throughout the year in areas such as art, drama, music, history, science, health, dance, emergency and community services, and more
- Cooking classes
- An active student council whose projects include a school vegetable garden, fund-raising for charity and maintaining the school grounds
- A playgroup at school every Wednesday
Facilities and staff
Rathdowney State School has:
- A pleasant, rural setting with spacious grounds and landscaped gardens
- Large, well-maintained, well-resourced and air-conditioned classrooms
- A new multi-purpose hall
- An excellent recently re-furbished, well-stocked library and resource centre
- A 25 metre in-ground pool
- Double multi-purpose tennis courts
- Several playgrounds
- The latest technology to support learning including, electronic whiteboards in all classrooms
- A very affordable, one-off, all-inclusive annual parent contribution scheme to cover all book and stationery needs for the full year
- Dedicated, caring, professional and very experienced staff team
- A low staff turn-over
- Small class sizes
- An active, supportive and involved P&C and local community
- An excellent service from itinerant support staff
- A school chaplain