Welcome to Chifley Public School
Chifley Public School Vision
To empower our students and school community through opportunity and excellence.
Chifley Public School Mission Statement
Chifley Public School is committed to the pursuit of excellence and the provision of equitable, high quality educational opportunities.
Established in 1962 and named after J.B. (Ben) Chifley, Chifley Public School is set in spacious grounds and offers a comprehensive education for children from Kindergarten to Year 6. Chifley Public School is a positive, friendly and inclusive community school. Our students are known, valued and cared for, and supported as a community of learners to connect, succeed and thrive.
Visible, student centred teaching and learning places a spotlight on high expectations and explicit outcomes, and supports our students as confident and successful learners.
Our student centred classrooms prioritise individual learning needs through evidence based and responsive teaching and learning programmes. There is a visible emphasis on Literacy and numeracy and the development of core foundational skills. Within our classrooms, learning intentions are clearly established and individual scaffolds ensure that our students understand what success criteria looks like and how to work towards it. As an ongoing part of the teaching and learning cycle, feedback is timely, outcome based and actionable, and our students have the opportunity to formally reflect on their achievements and take ownership of their learning through PLPs and goal setting.
Learning support is centrally coordinated and works across all classes, across all students and in partnership with all families to ensure:
assessment and reporting procedures are streamlined and transparent;
student engagement, performance and progress are tracked;
school based programmes are informed and responsive to individual learning needs; and
equitable access and resourcing.
Within this context, our learning support umbrella ensures the delivery of:
targeted student wellbeing initiatives;
EAL/D and New Arrivals programmes;
tiered instruction & intervention; and
gifted and talented programmes through identified extension & enrichment opportunities.
Our innovative classrooms ensure that all our students have the opportunity to engage confidently and successfully with an information, communication and technology rich curriculum, and are empowered as inquisitive and adaptable learners through future focussed teaching and learning outcomes that emphasise creativity, critical thinking, communication skills and collaborative learning.
Learning technologies are delivered through directed, experiential and authentic teaching and learning opportunities, and act as an educational amplifier to access information, build content and extend student outcomes.
STEM is explicitly timetabled across all classes to enrich an inclusive and equitable school curriculum, and ensures that all our students are extended through Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as an stand alone subject, and have ongoing exposure to sequential coding platforms and units of work that challenge them to apply creative, critical thinking skills in:
As a connected community our students are enabled to flourish within a positive learning climate and engage as respectful, responsible and resilient learners.
Student wellbeing underpins our holistic educational framework to support successful, confident, informed and actively engaged learners. Our whole school approach to student wellbeing is framed around Grow Your Mind and emphasises clearly defined wellbeing practices and behavioural expectations, and respectful, safe and active and engaged learners.
Positive engagement, self-regulated learning and the ongoing recognition of student achievement play an essential role in our wellbeing framework, and are reinforced explicitly and incidentally both in class and as a whole school community. Through this process, our students are encouraged to contribute to their own wellbeing as well as being expected to support the wellbeing of others and the collective wellbeing of the school community.
Our co-curricular programme enables us to not just connect as a school community but also engage meaningfully within our local community and across our network of schools. We currently offer 17 school based co-curricular activities each week. These enrichment activities are absolutely cost free and demonstrate a strong commitment to opportunity, excellence and accessibility for all our students.
For obvious reasons, our co-curricular programme is extremely popular. It places significant emphasis on the Creative and Performing Arts as well as involvement in sport clinics and a raft of enrichment activities. As a school we are committed to best practice and extremely conscious that it doesn’t always need to come with a price tag.
