Our School

A personalised education

Darlingia Forest School is a government accredited and funded non-state primary school. We are an intentionally small school aiming to grow year-by-year to just 25 students from Prep to Year Six. The small scale of our school means we are able to tailor our program, based on the Australian Curriculum, to the interests and needs of your child.

Put simply, the Australian Curriculum is the content of our educational program, it is ‘what’ we teach; our school philosophy is our guide that shapes ‘where, when and how’ we teach the content; and together with our students we create the ‘why’, the reason for our studies and activities.

Our classrooms

Town

Workshop

Garden

Kitchen

Nature

Place-based education means we take our teaching and learning out of the classroom. We use our school house, our local community, and the natural environment as a starting point to teach subjects across the curriculum. When you start to think this way, the opportunities for learning outside of the classroom are endless.

For example, we might learn about Maths/Science (measurement/chemical reactions) in the kitchen; Art/Design Technology (painting/constructing) in the workshop; use our town’s facilities for HaSS/HPE (local history/swimming); and use the natural environment for Geography/Bush craft (orienteering/fire making).

A typical day

Our school day is flexible and subject to change. Our daily timetable might look a bit different but from 9-3 we have the same amount of “learning time” and “break time” as other local schools.

Time	Activity
8:30am	School opens for self-directed learning
9:30am	Morning tea and meeting
10:00am	Integrated guided learning
12noon	Shared lunch
12:30pm	Quiet time followed by guided learning in literacy & numeracy
2:30pm	Self-directed learning
3:30pm	School closes