Parkes Public School
Parkes Public School is a K-6 school with enrolments of over 450 students. Located in Parkes (central western NSW, Australia), the school was designated a Centre of Excellence for "Catering for Individual Needs and Talents" in 1992. Visit Parkes Public Schools Web Site.
The school staff is motivated by the strong belief that all children can learn and should be provided with the conditions to do so. Therefore, Parkes Public School continues to cater for individual needs and talents, operating a highly effective, inclusion program for students with both severe disabilities and those in the upper range of abilities. Whilst overall class arrangements do not vary extensively, innovative organisation and strategies are put in place to address particular needs.
Further main beliefs that underpin our operation are:
- poor literacy skills affect self-esteem and therefore, relationships;
- early intervention is vital;
- behaviour is a personal choice and one must take responsibility for one's own actions;
- what a teacher expects is what a child will give;
- success creates success;
- and there is always more to know about teaching and learning.
Our Mission Statement
Parkes Public School will pursue excellence in the education of the whole child in a secure, caring and stimulating environment.
Long Term Goals
We aim to:- provide a secure, harmonious climate which will promote positive attitudes about, and at, school;
- have every student leave this school at the end of Year 6 having been given every opportunity to achieve their potential in literacy and numeracy (focusing on early intervention);
- investigate and discover new strategies to cater for the increasing number of students with special needs and for students with talents;
- upskill staff and school community whenever there are new and valuable practices and directions;
- have each child, parent and teacher learn that growth towards maturity involves being accountable for one's own actions and bearing the consequences;
- develop the newly acquired block as a sports field;
- provide more shade areas;
- acquire a larger hall to accommodate the whole school;
- keep up with information technology;
- develop the area between Currajong building and the fence on Hill Street;
- lobby for new classrooms, in place of Pioneer Block, and new toilet blocks for primary students;
- acquire more land and accommodation on the northern site, starting with a new and bigger canteen.
Contact details
Parkes Public School
02 6862 1702 (ph)
02 6862 5047 (fax)
parkes-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
