Welcome to Korumburra Primary Website
Korumburra Primary School has proudly served our local community for over 100 years.
We pride ourselves on the extra experiences we offer. These currently include instrumental music, performing arts, choir, an annual art show and a variety of clubs and sporting programs.
KPS also provides a caring and supportive environment through
our student welfare program, learning assistance program (LAP),
our After
School Care program and our very successful Active After
School Care program, which offers different activities each term.
We are fortunate to have more than 100 volunteers
regularly supporting our school. We value parents and community members
as an essential part of the education partnership between the students
and our dedicated staff.
Our school has benefited from the many building improvements that have been made over recent years, including roofing over our central quadrangle and the construction of a fantastic new six classroom learning neighbourhood - funded through the Building the Education Revolution (BER) program. Click here to see a web gallery of our school grounds & facilities
Our school motto is: Challenge and Achieve.
The motto expresses our school's emphasis on having a go, striving for success and celebrating our accomplishments. We encourage all students to build the skills and self belief that will allow them to achieve their goals.
Our Values
At KPS we aim to develop the whole child by instilling the knowledge and skills needed to meet the challenge of learning while valuing the diversity of individuals. Our Strategic Plan affirms the school's commitment to the following values:
Learning - we value and foster the knowledge, skills and
strategies for learning
Respect - for ourselves, each other and our environment
Responsibility - acceptance of, and taking responsibility for, our own
actions
Nuturing - we provide for the needs of students and others within the
school community
Community - we build positive links between the members within the
school community and the wider community
Teachers and students believe they work in a safe, orderly and
nurturing environment where teaching and learning is at the centre of
all that we do.
Our Teaching Staff
Click here for a list of teaching staff at Korumburra Primary including our specialist teachers.
School Chaplain & Pastoral Care
As part of our school's Pastoral Care Program we are fortunate to have the services of a School Chaplain.
Matt Stear is the School Chaplain; he is employed two days a week and serves as an extension of the schools desire for Pastoral care to be available to the students and their families as well as the teaching staff.
Click
here to read the School Chaplain's message
School Assemblies
Parents are welcome at our regular community-building assessmblies - Monday and Friday mornings. On Monday the assembly focuses on the National Anthem, and the presentation of Student of the Week Awards.
Friday’s Assembly focuses on Performances and Sports
Celebration, You Can Do It Awards, Artist of the Week awards
and the Citizenship Competition. Both assemblies are
presented under the direction of the Student Leadership Team.
Parent & Community Involvement
School Council
The Korumburra Primary School Council is comprised of elected members; with 7 parents and 3 teachers, and the Principal. Council meets monthly, generally on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.00 p.m. An Annual General meeting is held in March each year, with elected members serving a two-year term with half retiring each year.
Click here for list of School Council members and committee conveners
Parents & Friends Club
Parents’ and Friends’ Club consists of an interested group of parents and friends of the school community, who meet on the second Wednesday of each month, in the Staff Room, at approximately 9:15 a.m.
Volunteers
Parents and other volunteers are encouraged to contribute to the educational programs of Korumburra Primary School. Each year parents and others who wish to volunteer to support our programs are invited to register. Volunteers are asked to nominate areas in which they want to assist by completing a Volunteer Registration Form.
Find out more about becoming a vounteer
School Buses
Bus services at Korumburra Primary School are organised by Korumburra Secondary College.
Parents wishing to know if their child is eligible to travel on a country bus can find out by contacting the Bus Coordinator, Karen Sorrell at the Korumburra Secondary College.
Click here for information about bus eligibility, waiting for buses and the bus roll.
School Hours
| Office Reception Hours | 8.15am - 4.20pm |
| Before School Yard Supervision | 8.30 - 8.45am |
| Classes start | 9.00am |
| Morning Recess | 11.00 - 11.30am |
| Lunch is eaten | 1.30 -1.40pm |
| Lunch time recess | 1.40 - 2.30pm |
| Classes dismissed | 3.30pm |
| After School Yard Supervision | 3.30 - 3.45pm |
Term Dates 2013
| Term 1 | 29th January - 28th March |
| Term 2 | 15th April - 28th June |
| Term 3 | 15th July - 20th September |
| Term 4 | 7th October - 20th December |
Useful External Links for Parents
Victorian Dept of Education and Early
Childhood Development
Ultranet information for parents
Michael Grose's Parenting Ideas
Contact Us
Principal: Bill Jeffs
Assistant Principal: David Gray
School Council President: Anita Roberts
Postal Address:
Private Bag 1
Korumburra, Victoria 3950
Delivery Address:
James Street
Korumburra, Victoria 3950
Telephone: (03) 5655 1309
Fax: (03) 5655 2861
Email:
korumburra.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au